COMMENTARY| According to the Huffington Post, while GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was at a campaign stop in Oskaloosa, Iowa, an adjunct professor of writing at William Penn University, Scott Arnold, who is a Democrat, asked how Gingrich plans to engage gay Americans.
Gingrich ultimately told the man that if the most important issue for them is the definition of marriage, they should vote for Obama. We already know that Gingrich's own sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, does not support her brother and will be voting for Obama, though she's just one person. It sounds like he feels comfortable with the amount of supporters he has to alienate gays, and people who are in support of same-sex marriage.
According to ABC News, 4 percent of the population is gay; the percentage of Americans who support gay marriage is 53 percent, according to the latest Gallup poll. Perhaps many of these same people would be voting for our current president regardless of Newt and his views, but it still seems like a large amount of voters to disregard.
No matter how loudly some like to cry about it, the tide is changing in America. LGBTs should not be discriminated against, and should be allowed into legal, committed loving relationships if they so chose. Certainly a man who has cheated on his spouses and has been married three times should be the last to make such a judgment.
On Wednesday, December 21, just a day after Gingrich made the comment that supporters of gay marriage should vote for Obama, a photo and report by the Associated Press documented an historic event. Two female Naval Petty Officers shared the first same-sex kiss at a ship's return.
The repeal of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" rule led to the two women sailors becoming the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the pier after one of them returned from 80 days at sea. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta of Placerville, Calif., remarked, "It's nice to be able to be myself. It's been a long time coming."
Though many conservatives would like to see our country's progress go in reverse, the majority of Americans don't want that to happen, and are in support of human beings entering a loving relationship whether the person is the same or opposite gender.
This summer, the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York became yet another historic milestone for human rights, proving that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel, and some day love will overcome bigotry and hate, despite Mr. Gingrich's so-called values.
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