Obama on same sex marriage

The White House announced today that they won't back the Federal ban on same sex marriages any more. I have always found it ironic that a man who was produced by a mixed race marriage, something that was once outlawed for the same arguments given to outlaw same sex marriages, was against same sex marriages. Now apparently he agrees that the ban is an illegal discrimination against marriages legally recognized in various states.

My opinion of course is that all of this arguing is silliness. Discrimination based on race is illegal, we established that a long time ago. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal in most circumstances, why not marriage? I haven't heard one valid argument against same sex marriage yet, just screams that the world will end. It has been fairly well proven that recognizing the existence of gays and lesbians won't cause people to suddenly switch their sexual orientation (and by fairly well proven I mean blatantly obvious).

Silliness. Our government wastes its time arguing silly things while the economy goes down the tubes. Fix the economy then worry about the color of the wallpaper.