Catholic League President Bill Donohue
has suggested President Barack Obama will next evolve to support
polygamy.
Reacting to the news that Obama
had just become the first sitting president to endorse gay marriage,
Donohue said Obama had “fully broken with his Christian moorings.”
“The President of the United States
likes the idea of Tom and Dick marrying,” Donohue
said in a statement. “He did not say whether he supports Tom,
Dick and Harry marrying, or whether he is 'evolving' in that
direction. Perhaps he has to consult with his mentor on this issue,
Mr. Joseph Biden of Delaware.”
“The time has finally come to pass a
constitutional amendment affirming marriage as an institution
reserved to the only two people who can naturally produce a family,
namely a man and a woman,” he added.
Other social conservatives also jeered
the president's move.
Tony Perkins of the Christian
conservative Family Research Council (FRC) said Obama had just handed
Mitt Romney “the key to social conservative support.”
“The President has provided a clear
contrast between him and his challenger Mitt Romney,” Perkins said.
“Romney, who has signed a pledge to support a marriage protection
amendment to the U.S. Constitution, may have been handed the key to
social conservative support by President Obama.”
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Brian Brown, the president of the
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), also criticized the
president: “God is the author of marriage, and we will not let an
activist politician like Barack Obama who is beholden to gay marriage
activists for campaign financing to turn marriage into something
political that can be redefined according to presidential whim.”