I'm just too tired to even go through this again. Read it for yourself. First, the White House claimed that senior domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes absolutely positively did NOT in any way show sympathy for gay marriage, she only explained the White House's party line against gay marriage at a public talk she gave at Boston College last Monday. Paul Sousa, a first-year student and LGBT activist got this rolling when he asked Barnes about Obama's position on marriage:
Reached late Monday evening, a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that Barnes was not discussing "her personal views on marriage equality or other issues."Then, after censoring the release of the video for days because of the possible gay marriage mention, the White House, after reviewing the video for 48 hours, finally gave Boston College permission to release it.
"As she clearly stated at the event, her personal views on issues are irrelevant to her work of advancing the administration's agenda," the official added. "In response to the questioner, she did provide an overview of what the president is doing to help advance equal rights for LBGT Americans."
Tonight, the Advocate got the video, and has the transcript. Read it for yourself. Do you not see sympathy? Do you not see someone giving some insight into her personal views and not just sticking to the White House line? Melody Barnes actually sounds like most Democrats we know. It's disturbing that when she "walks into the White House," she has to adopt a backwards looking view of equality. It's the same backwards view that would have kept our own president's parents from marrying. How much more backwards, and messed up, can you get than that.
Ask yourself why the White House freaked out over this video? Why did they censor it, stop its publication, for nearly five days if Barnes said nothing that even vaguely showed sympathy for the plight of gays wanting to get married?
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