This is from that same announcement of October 31, 2008, from the Obama/Biden campaign:

"As the Democratic nominee for President, I am proud to join with and support the LGBT community in an effort to set our nation on a course that recognizes LGBT Americans with full equality under the law...And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states. For too long, issues of LGBT rights have been exploited by those seeking to divide us. It's time to move beyond polarization and live up to our founding promise of equality by treating all our citizens with dignity and respect. This is no less than a core issue about who we are as Democrats and as Americans."

I hope it actually reaches someone, instead of preaching to the choir. We need to win voters.

Yes, the Obama campaign has issued statements...yet on the flier I have in my hand that was mailed to my home I read quotes.

These quotes are taken directly from the mouth of Obama (and Biden) when he spoke at a televised debate in front of a live audience.

What do we get as repudiation to the quotes?

A statement from the campaign. No money. No advertisement. No public statement issued from the mouth of the candidate himself.

And the mouthpieces of his campaign step up and promote his position for him while millions of homes in California receive a piece of mail that highlights Obama's weak and confusing stand.

We settle for crumbs and we get less.

Pinch harder, Nancy.

The bigotry of the Obama and McCain tickets about same sex marriage is the one single factor that hurts us the most in California, Arizona and Florida.

The constant repetition of their superstitious (religious) prejudices about same sex marriage is a green light to bigots to vote against us. Obama’s phrase “god’s in the mix” says two things. First that same sex marriage is a sin and secondly that bigotry is sanctioned from “On High”. That excites those whose lifestyles embrace irrational and superstitious views, aka, christians, and if enough of them vote we’re toast.

Of coursei the right and the bigots embrace Obama and use him against us. Why wouldn’t they. It makes perfect sense because he, the Clintons, Focus on the Family, Biden, Palin and McCain all agree that we have no right to marry. The fact that Obama supports civil unions, which cements our second class status, and that he’s quite content to let state DOMAs mistreat us just makes matters that much worse.

Lots of people don’t bother voting and most of those who do enter the voting have to hold their noses. They know we’re going to get screwed blue (not in the good way) no matter who wins. It’s happened in every election since 1868. Hopefully, if all the hard work of the volunteers pays off a lot of them will reject the outright bigotry of McCain and Obama and vote for their rights as well as ours.

Win or lose, though, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to the volunteers and to all the local and campus groups and especially to Unions and groups like the NAACP. When it got down and dirty they were there doing the most valuable thing people can do with their lives; fighting injustice.

Obama opposes proposition 8.
Obame opposes same-sex marriage.

Both those statements are true.

How you interpret that is another matter. As I'm on the Right, my own interpretation is far too subjective to comment further.

The timing of the statements by Biden and the campaign was exquisite. Given the McSlime Machine's incapacity to process new information and their increasing inaudibility over the din of their own old slogans, the political risks to the Obama campaign are near zero. Even if the Republican campaign could have mustered the attention span to focus on something, the best they're left with on this issue is a campaign against equality, calling to mind the segregationist roots of today's Southern Strategy Republicans, spoiling their chances with voters in the middle and sapping the enthusiasm of their campaign workers.

Is Obama therefore trustable? Hell, no. It's a step in the right direction. Just as not providing money or people to the No on 8 campaign is a step in the wrong direction. It's up to Obama to become trustable. For now, people in the community are trustable. Mostly. Openly avowed allies, maybe. Trust has to be earned over time.

Just my $0.02.

I do wish he were a little more proactive here and wasn't doing so much damage on this issue throughout the season by talking about how "god's in the mix."