Obama comes out... shamelessly stolen from themasterandhisslave.com

This week made history and for once in a good way! The President of the United States said he supports gay marriage. Not pussyfooting around it. Flat out support! It makes you wonder if there isn't some hope left. I've been trying to figure out how to respond as right out of the gates I was overrun by all sorts of vileness. "Obama is just pandering to court the gay vote!" "Obama doesn't give a shit about gays and if you believe him you are a fucking idiot!" and "Obama is just doing this for politics!". Actual quotes from people I thought to be open minded, rather liberal, and as far as I knew pro-gay marriage. Somehow for the first time The President of the United States flat out said that he is pro-equality (because lets not fuck around here. Anto-gay marriage means anti-equality) is bad because they believe it is politically motivated. I couldn't disagree more. I don't give a shit the reason, I am just thrilled. It makes me think that there might still be some hope out there. When I heard my president, and I am proud to call him my president, say he supported gay marriage I swear I heard a distant crack. Like the precursor to an avalanche! My best friend pupslave keith put it better than I possibly could. So here are his thoughts on the matter. I couldn't agree more!

"i don’t know how orchestrated or planned the moment was. i don’t know if it was a wise political move or one that may have just cost him the next election. i don’t know why the moment to do it was now, as opposed to months ago or months ahead. what i do know is that i was uncharacteristically at a loss for words. i did not see this coming. the president has publicly announced that he’s on O/our side. as i sat back and pondered the moment, i felt a swell of emotion flow through my body. i thought of all the bullied gay kids out there, contemplating suicide as a formidable escape suddenly knowing that the president of the united states is on their side. i think of the thousands and thousands of gay brothers and sisters who died from aids because president reagan couldn’t even mention them in a sentence. i think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it not only impossible to dream of gay marriage, but the idea of even being accepted into a family of their own. i think of all those in the past who had been shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of their apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they dared to be themselves and openly love another human being. i think of the same-sex parents who now have a president publicly supporting the sacrifices and the love they have for their children. now, i know that president obama’s statement doesn’t really change anything in the eyes of the law. but it says something about how he has decided to face this re-election bid – on his own terms, being free from the fears that so often kept him from being the truly great president he should be. he is prepared to let the chips all where they may. he has drawn a line in the sand clearly contrasting his moral beliefs with those his opponent, a man who wants to abolish all rights for gay americans and writes checks for institutes administering “gay cures.” i don’t know what will happen from here, but for the rest of history, there is now a sitting president of the united states who publicly stated his support for my – and thousands of my gay brothers and sisters – right to love. and despite the politics involved, that is a truly beautiful and remarkable thing."