Clintons Praise SCOTUS Rulings on Same-Sex Marriage

Evolution is good

When Bill and Hillary Clinton released a statement (below) in support of today's marriage equality announcements, a former coworker of mine posted this on his Facebook wall:

Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in their 2008 campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination, expressed their opposition to same-sex marriage. Now, both have reversed themselves, and have endorsed gay and lesbian couples' right to marry. And Slick Willy signed it into law, and now lauds the decision. "We're against that. Oh, wait, now the majority wants it? So do we!" C'mon. Beware the politician whose stance changes every time the wind blows. 

I normally don't allow myself to get into these kinds of "discussions" on Facebook. Plus I've always liked this guy --  but haven't seen him in 15 years or more -- so I was going to just ignore it, like I normally do. But when someone wrote in the comments "All I can say is Mitt Romney," the false equivalency road this was going down was too much for me to bite my tongue, so responded with this:

You know this post is disingenuous at best. I'll take fake "evolving" -- they all were always FOR equality, but were ahead of the rest of the nation so couldn't express it -- over ongoing bigotry any day, sir. 

A bit dramatic, but sincere nonetheless.

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY CLINTON ON TODAY'S SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY 

 By overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, the Court recognized that discrimination towards any group holds us all back in our efforts to form a more perfect union. We are also encouraged that marriage equality may soon return to California. We applaud the hard work of the advocates who have fought so relentlessly for this day, and congratulate Edie Windsor on her historic victory.