With a first ever unanimous ruling in favor of gay marriage last Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court, history was made in the mid-western United States. Needless to say the GLBT community across the nation has been celebrating.
I don't know about everyone else, but when I saw the White House statement about the ruling, it became a very bittersweet moment for me.
The President respects the decision of the Iowa Supreme Court, and continues to believe that states should make their own decisions when it comes to the issue of marriage. Although President Obama supports civil unions rather than same-sex marriage, he believes that committed gay and lesbian couples should receive equal rights under the law.
While it's not as bad as anything that would have come out of the Bush White House, it still promotes the unfair "separate but equal" policy that is anything but. Marriage, not civil unions, would be equal treatment under the law.
The struggle is far from over, and end the end we will have full marriage rights regardless of what the current administration supports. We shouldn't let the fact that Obama only supports civil unions.
