Well Numan, I can appreciate the niceties of politics, however:
1. He ran on the promise of repealing DOMA and DADT;
2. Equal rights are always easier to bargain away when they aren't your rights involved, aren't they?
Sorry, I am barbarous enough to prefer things that work rather than things that make me feel good.
I firmly support the proposition that the Ends Justfy the Means.
If you object to the Means, it is simply the case that the Ends were incorrectly formulated.
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