The Truth about Obama

I love this post over at FAFBlog:

Barack Obama: Black?

Same Sex Marriage in the Schools

Proponents of Prop 8 have warned that, if Prop 8 fails, school children will be taught about same-sex marriage.  Opponents have called that a warning a scare tactic, designed to distract voters from the fundamental rights passage of Prop 8 could take away.  The truth is that school children will be taught about same-sex marriage whether Prop 8 passes or fails. 

 

The fight against discrimination against homosexuals is a vital part of history.  Of course it will be taught in our schools, not only in the near future, but possibly for hundreds of years to come.  The only question is, "what will our children learn about it?" 

 

If Prop 8 passes, then school children will learn that on November 4, 2008, a majority of Californians allowed ignorance, fear, and hatred to be written into the State Constitution, stripping many of their fellow citizens of the right to marry.  If Prop 8 fails, then school children will learn that California was one of our Nation's the most forward thinking States, and that, on November 4, 2008 Californians allowed empathy and fairness to triumph over fear and superstition.

Thoughts on Tonight's Debate

I was disappointed that Senator Obama failed to mention any moral argument against the invasion of Iraq, and instead criticized it because of its strategic flaws.  

We invaded Iraq because we were misled to believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed a grave and gathering threat to the security of the United States. Whatever one might think of that justification, it was the justification upon which we rested our invasion.  

It has since been proven that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, and that evidence to the contrary had been fabricated by and at the behest of the Bush Administration. Thus, our invasion was unjustified.  

Isn't invading another country without justification a morally reprehensible action? Aren't we therefore responsible for not just the 4,000 American dead, and tens of thousands of American casualties, but also for all the Iraqi loss of life. Isn't the hellish nightmare that Iraq has become the result of our unjustified aggression?  

Perhaps I'm terribly naive, but I think these moral questions are far more important to consider, than whether or not the invasion was a strategic mistake. In McCain's mind, war is good as long as we win. I'd like to think that Obama has a more thoughtful perspective, but I did not hear any evidence of that during this debate.