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[quote=Anonymous]What exactly would one boycott in protest of Obama's former stance on marriage equality?  A boycott is a refusal to purchase goods or services or engage in social relations with an organization, business, or a person as a punishment or protest.  Obama does not own a business and I certainly never had a social relationship with him so I really didn't have an ability to boycott him.  I suppose I could decline to give him campaign contributions, but I generally don't give money to politicians anyway.  I did eat Chick-fil-a before I learned of their policies.  If what you mean is, "Why would anyone support Obama because of his lack of support of marriage equality?"  The answer is because he is better than the alternative.  He wasn't actively engaging in policy making that limited the civil rights of gay families.  He wasn't promoting equal treatment but he was not working against it.  His opposition, the Republican party, supports the denial of marriage and family equality to gay and lesbian people.  I don't vote for a politician over one issue.  I pick the ones that are most important to me and choose accordingly.  Obama, in 2008, wasn't where I wanted him to be on this issue, but he was in a better place than John McCain and Sarah Palin and the Republican party as a whole.

And to the poster who said not everyone has to accept homosexuality.  Ok.  Except the self-same arguments were made against integration, and interracial marriage, women's rights, and religious tolerance.  So, insert "blacks," or "Jews," or "women" into your sentence.  Equal protection under the law is literally a right and right now gay and lesbian people who want to get married, adopt children, dispose of property, etc. are largely denied equal protection of the law.  Much the same way that black people were denied the right to equal protection under the law before integration.  Much the same way women were denied equal protection under the law before they won the right to vote.[/quote]

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