Don't Be Wedged Again

Obama has been bounced over the definition of marriage, which in any case is not within the competence of the President, as such.

The same is true of abortion, making it no wonder that the Republican Party has never done anything at all about it. Quite apart from the fact that several of its biggest donors, many of its powerful back room functionaries, and not a few of its public figures are broadly to strongly pro-choice.

For two generations, pretty much, white Evangelicals and a large section of white Catholics have been conned into voting against their own economic interests, and latterly in favour of the harvesting of the Irish Catholics and of the Scots-Irish Southerners and Westerners (as well as the blacks) in wars of corporate greed and ideological lunacy, by the entirely empty promise of action against abortion. Action that neither the White House nor Capitol Hill can take.

The effects of those economic policies have been thoroughly anti-life and anti-family. It is blatantly obvious that those foreign policies, in themselves, were and are. Please God, let the same mistake not be made over the definition of marriage, a states' matter in which black, Catholic, Southern and Western Democrats are in fact in the vanguard of defending the traditional position. Least of all, let it be made over a departure from that position quite so half-hearted, lukewarm, and obviously forced as Obama's.