Yes, Laura Bush Is Better on Gay Marriage Than Barack Obama

by Michael Jones · 2010-05-12 08:29:00 UTC
Topics:

Laura BushWhen Laura Bush's recent book became available, numerous reviewers and commentators pointed out that she dropped a bit of a bombshell on the subject of marriage equality. From all accounts, it seemed, Laura Bush supported the right of two women or two men to get married, and enjoy all the same benefits that heterosexual married couples get.

Well, end the speculation, because Laura Bush confirmed all of that last night on Larry King Live. It's now official: Laura Bush is better on gay marriage than President Barack Obama.

Think we can get Adam Bouska to line the former First Lady up for a No on H8 photo shoot?

In Laura Bush's mind, she can understand that religious conservatives have a strongly held belief that marriage is an institution that should only be the domain of heteros. She just disagrees.

"Well, I think we ought to look at gay marriage and debate it. A lot of people have trouble coming to terms with it, because they see marriage traditionally as a man and woman.  But I also know that when couples are committed to each other and love each other, they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has," Bush said.

When asked definitively if the U.S. could accept gay marriage, Laura Bush put it bluntly: "I think we could."

Yet another Republican (and a pretty influential one at that) has come out for marriage equality. In fact, now the spouses of the last two GOP candidates for President (George W. Bush and John McCain) support marriage equality. Imagine that. Perhaps we should start working on Ann Romney or Todd Palin ....

The video of Laura Bush on Larry King Live is below. But it is pretty amazing that Laura Bush, Cindy McCain, Steve Schmidt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dick Cheney and David Brooks can all be down with gay marriage, yet the progressive leader of the free world still can't come to grips with the subject. It's a little hard not to be disappointed by that fact.

Photo credit: smiteme

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
PREVIOUS STORY:
Elena Kagan Has Been Outed ... as Straight!
NEXT STORY:
Bullied high schooler convinces MPAA to change ‘Bully’ rating to “PG-13”

COMMENTS (27)

    Comment Policy

    · All fields are required to comment.

    [X]

    Comments on Change.org are meant for further exploration and evaluation of the campaign on Change.org. To that end, we welcome constructive comments. However, we reserve the right to delete comments which, as determined solely in our discretion: (1) are offensive, abusive, or off-topic; (2) include content solely intended to personally attack the campaign creator, (3) are designed to subvert or hijack comment threads rather than contribute to them; and/or (4) violate our terms of service and/or privacy policy. Repeat offenders may be permanently removed from the site at our discretion. Please also be advised that: (A) we do not actively curate and/or monitor in any manner whatsoever the comments made on the Change.org platform, and (B) the creator of each campaign on Change.org may remove any comment at her/his/its discretion.