Restoring the Sacred

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Robert P. George: Obama on Marriage: Bigot or Liar?


Robert P. George is the esteemed McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Professor George writing on National Review Online yesterday posed an interesting either/or question about the current occupant of the White House. I agree with the finding of the Professor.

It has become a matter of orthodoxy among progressives that those who believe that marriage is properly defined as the union of one man and one woman are guilty of bigotry.

There is a problem, however: Barack Obama has assured voters that he believes marriage to be the union of one man and one woman — not two men, two women, or some combination of more than two people. As Donald Trump rather pointedly noted after the Miss U.S.A. pageant, President Obama’s position on the definition of marriage is identical to the position stated by California beauty queen Carrie Prejean.

So which is it? Is the president a bigot or a liar?

For what it’s worth, I think he is lying.


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