Gay marriage and the debates

[afleitch]

Well, tens of millions of gays, women, immigrants, etc. and their allies disagree with you bro.

That sounds good on paper, but you can't guarantee they will ALL make it out to the polls on election night.  If they're more concerned about their bodies than their pockets, they're sorry POS.

Gay mariage is very much about peoples pockets! It's a financial issue; gay couples have to jump through hoops that other people don't, in order to secure their financial future they are not allowed to get married.

[afleitch]

However, a candidate's thought process on this issue gives the voter an idea of how the candidate thinks about things, in general.

Which is how I feel. Politicians have had a tendency to move towards supports for civil unions/equal marriage and LGBT rights in recent years. This is either a genuine change in belief or the product of changing attitudes in society so that expressing support doesn't result in sh-t being shoveled onto you (see Gerald Ford for details)

So when a national politician starts going backwards on LGBT rights in order to compete for the highest office in the land that gives me a clear indication of the sort of politician someone is.