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The President Comes Out,

Dr. Jennifer Morse's take

By NRO Symposium

This article was first publishedatNationalReview.com on May 10, 2012.

JENNIFER ROBACK MORSE:

My personal intuitive (i.e., non-scientific,totally unprovable) beliefs are the following:

1. Obama has always favored theredefinition of marriage to remove the

gender requirement. He has just decided that

now is a favorable time to admit it. If I amcorrect, then he has been lying. This would

make him a liar.

2. Why did he decide that now is a good

time to admit it? The people of North

Carolina just voted 61 percent to 39 percentin favor of marriage, and against ever

removing the gender requirement. If he were

simply counting votes in swing states, youd

think hed consider this a good time to keephis mouth shut.

3. Therefore, he is not just counting votes.

He is counting money. The Gay Lobby

knows it cannot win popular votes. (Thisshould have been obvious to them for some

time.) I surmise that the Gay Lobby is

putting lots of money on the table for

Obama to publicly support the redefinitionof marriage. The Gay Lobby knows it can

get stuff done through the executive branch

that it cant get done other ways.

4. African-American voters still dont likethe removing of the gender requirement

from marriage, or having the government

declare that men and women are completely

interchangeable as parents. What is Obamathinking about African-American voters? He

may be blowing them off completely and

taking their votes for granted. Or, he may beplanning to use the money from the Gay

Lobby to purchase advertising having

nothing to do with gay issues, but designedto scare black voters away from voting

Republican. Or some combination of these.

5. With the Democratic party, it is All

Identity Politics All the Time. They have no

other issues. Lets face it, they are dead inthe water on economics. Their foreign

policy is not credible. Identity politics is all

they have left. Expect a very ugly, divisivecampaign.

Read responses from others in thesymposiumhere.

Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is aneconomist and the Founder and President of

theRuth Institute, a nonprofit educational

organization devoted to bringing hope andencouragement for lifelong married love.

She is also the author of77 Non-Religious

Reasons to Support Man/Woman Marriage,Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to

Raise a Village andSmart Sex: Finding

Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World.

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