By: Alex Koppelman
Source: salon.com
The press conference at which Donald Trump announced that Carrie Prejean will keep her crown as Miss California was largely what you’d expect — and not in a good way.
But both Trump and Prejean each made one good point when they took the podium: The beauty queen’s position on same-sex marriage, which is what started the firestorm of controversy surrounding her, isn’t substantively different from President Obama’s. He, too, publicly opposes same-sex marriage, favoring civil unions instead.
Conservatives have been having quite a bit of fun with Obama’s stance on marriage, gleefully pointing out that Prejean isn’t the only one who says the only marriage should be “opposite marriage.” This is one reason why LGBT activists aren’t happy with Obama’s position on the matter — it makes it much harder to criticize their opponents, who can simply throw the popular president back in their face.
