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Beck Breaks Down Why Obama‘s Gay Marriage Stance Won’t Help Him

Glenn Beck Breaks Down President Obamas Stance on Same Sex Marriage

President Obama’s recent declaration (and, flip-flop) supporting gay marriage seems to many to be a desperate display of pandering to a given demographic solely for political gain. When the stats are reviewed, however, it is difficult to see just what that political gain might be. Still, with the NAACP and leftists around the country championing same sex marriage as the “civil rights” issue of our time, the mainstream media will likely carry the water for the president’s campaign once more — this time by claiming that gay marriage is an issue of greater concern to Americans than statistics actually prove it is.

On his Tuesday evening program, Glenn Beck broke down the issue of same-sex marriage as it relates to the 2012 election, explaining why the president’s newfound stance on the issue may not even help him gain crucial swing states. Beck noted that only two — Colorado and New Hampshire — have held favorable views on  gay marriage. Looking back, swing states in 2008 including Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, Florida and North Carolina, all opposed gay marriage by as much as 30 percentage points each. Add to this the fact that a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll released Tuesday reveals that 62 percent of voters said candidates’ positions on same-sex marriage make no difference to them, nor would it factor into their ultimate decision as to who they choose to vote for.

The polling data includes 75 percent of independents, 76 percent of moderates, 81 percent of African Americans, and 65 percent of residents in the Midwest. In turn, only a mere 17 percent said they are more likely to support President Obama over the position, while 20% said they are more likely to support Romney.

The figures will not dissuade the media from supporting the president on this issue. MSNBC contributor Mark Halperin even admitted on national television that despite the facts and figures, the media will still rally to Obama’s defense.  But “if you listen to the press they will have you believe just about any lie that they can,” Beck quipped.

What’s more, Beck noted that in every state where same-sex marriage amendments have been listen on the ballot, voters have stricken down the measure each time. Often, African Americans and Hispanics are among the demographics that hold the least-favorable views on same-sex marriage.
“The president’s pandering for donations might not be the home-run he thinks it is,” Beck noted.

Ironically, Democratic pollster Jay Campbell noted that Romney’s stance on same-sex marriage may have even helped him solidify support with the Republican base, particularly 62 percent of Evangelicals. Conversely, young voters, ages 18-34, might be the only exception, however, as nearly half say Obama’s support for gay marriage reinforces their support for him.

 In other words, same-sex marriage is essentially a non-issue among voters, but if it were to effect change, it might do so in Romney‘s favor more than it would Obama’s.

With similar polling data likely on hand prior to the president’s announcement, it seems the Obama’s only reason to declare his support for gay marriage was to distract from the economy and other issues that will be assailed by Republicans.

Comments (54)

  • zoro51
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:21pm

    the socialist will SAY n act to ganer votes NO one wants a SOCIALIST weak leader whose anti americn n ids NON AMERICAN BORN… IMPEACH OBAMA

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  • conservativecartoonist
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 3:57pm

    Check out this political cartoon of the media covering Romney’s high school prank right after Obama announced his “coming out”, (http://www.conservativecartoon.com/) its hard to believe the media would have the guts to come up with something like that, and even worse for them to produce right in time to glorify Obama’s new gay stance. Seems like a pretty desperate measure.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 11:28am

    It’s hard to get a plumber in Colorado and New Hampshire. Their citizens are confused as to how a male & female pipe or fittings end goes together.

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  • chnswstr
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:59am

    I’ve said it before; he’s a chameleon.

    or maybe a labrador retriever, loving the one who feeds him.

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  • Dodsfall
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:30am

    I believe this has a lot more to do with securing donations than it does winning votes.

    A meaningless, pandering statement from the president, who will not have to risk a vote on this issue before the election, will gain a lot of cash for the election.

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  • Bamabelle
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:23am

    Romney does not live in a state that allows multiple marriages last I heard so I doubt he belongs to a sect that believes that and even if he did, he doesn’t have multiple wives nor did he ever have them. I suspect some of you guys would actually be jealous.
    To the guy marriage thing, this is my opinion and my opinion only. There is nothing wrong with a civil union. It accomplishes the same thing as marriage. You have the same legal bondaries and responsiblities. Marriage is something that we as men and women do for ourselves in front of God and witnesses to affirm our faith and give Him our commentment to each other. That is marriage for Christians. It is different for other faiths I know but that is it for us. Now, why do you suppose a Gay couple wants this? First off, you would not see one set foot in a church normally. Secondly, I suspect most Gay people are not christians. I say most because I know some attend church on a regular basis and do believe in God. My theory is that this is a way to force any one in any religion to conform to their way of thinking or else. Just like the poor photographer who was sued for not accepting a job taking a gay couple’s wedding pictures, churches will be sued right and left. Pretty soon you won’t have any churches left because they will be too afraid to have a wedding or they will have to do one because it will be govt. mandated. Hince the war of religion has commenced my friends.

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  • TMGallagher
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:15am

    Good gravy… don’t the editors here at the Blaze know not to start a headline with “Beck Breaks Down…”… LOL! Well, it did get my attention.

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  • Bot
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:37am

    Marriage reflects the natural moral and social law evidenced the world over. As the late British social anthropologist Joseph Daniel Unwin noted in his study of world civilizations, any society that devalued the nuclear family soon lost what he called “expansive energy,” which might best be summarized as society’s will to make things better for the next generation. In fact, no society that has loosened sexual morality outside of man-woman marriage has survived.

    Analyzing studies of cultures spanning several thousands of years on several continents, Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin found that virtually all political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by a sexual revolution in which marriage and family were devalued by the culture’s acceptance of homosexuality.

    When marriage loses its unique status, women and children most frequently are the direct victims. Giving same-sex relationships or out-of-wedlock heterosexual couples the same special status and benefits as the marital bond would not be the expansion of a right but the destruction of a principle.

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  • miketype1each
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:46am

    Okay, so, Beck thinks that despite the FACT that Barry gave his OK to print that he was BORN IN KENYA for a span of 16 YEARS is NO PROOF the Pantload-in-Chief is, in FACT, a KENYAN, but somehow believes Barry’s stance on gay “marriage” really won’t help him.

    Beck, you’re an Obama plant if there ever was one.

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  • GodsDotr
    Posted on May 23, 2012 at 1:46am

    I don’t know anyone who voted for Mc Cain in 2008 that is voting for Obama; and I know many people who voted for Obama that won’t do that again this time around.

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  • wolfinshdo
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:17pm

    None of this matters because Pres. Obama knows the Black community will vote for him no matter what he does. He is just locking up the Gay vote. Next he will try to push something to lock up the Hispanic vote before November.

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  • mrmarkjohnson
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:00pm

    Obama has had homosexual experiences in his past. I’m surprised Beck, The Blaze, or Breitbart has dug deeper into that.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:59pm

    That picture at the top makes me want to smack someone. Two grown men, one with flowers on in a womanly purple blouse like shirt and a big old hog-like man hugging him. I bet they both had been married before and treated some little woman like dirt. They are filthy and should crawl back under the rocks they came from. They are useless and not to be trusted in anything. If they cannot be trusted to act like who they are then they are wafflers and of a double mind in all their dealings. They cannot be trusted with Justice or they would know they are not supposed to let themselves venture into a sick sin like homosexuality. They have no honor, no discretion, are shallow in their dealings and just about crazy.

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  • RACHAL44
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:56pm

    Obama is very open and broad minded and open in his approach to social mores: see link below
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/18/obama-accuser-larry-sincl_n_107900.html

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:55pm

      C’mon now! Isn’t that a pretty SEIU boa the guy on top is wearing?

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  • RACHAL44
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:52pm

    Obama is a very broad minded person, even in his sexual proclivities: see link below:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/18/obama-accuser-larry-sincl_n_107900.html

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:51pm

    Mormans ordinarily do not go along with that multiple marriage thing, though there are sects branched off regular Mormans that do. There are other people who declare themselves some type of religion that are not the Morman religion who lives in some type of commune with multiple partners.They do not even have to claim they are “religious” to do this. Sin comes to all types and colors. Christ said to love your wife as you do the Church. It is singular and there was only “a wife” mentioned. Pastors should be the husband of one wife. People who marry others who have a living spouse are committing adultery. This is widespread, anyway. God will have to deal with this. People do what they want and are for the most part free to do it, but there is a price to pay either here or later. People change, God does not. All this marrying and remarrying is causing so many problems for the spouses and children of multiple marriages.

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    • bigdaddyt46
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 4:31am

      and you also end up with more then 1 mother- in- law

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    • elation
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 9:16am

      You lose credibility in speaking about the Mormon Church when you misspell “Mormon” consistently.

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  • jmcclena
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Right, we’re supposed to take advice on marriage from a guy who belongs to a cult that believes taking multiple child brides should be legal?

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:56pm

      Maybe you better find out which “cult” you are talking about. All Mormans do not believe this. I have never been anything but a Baptist and there are plenty of those who are effecting a form of religion but denying the power thereof. There are people who claim to be Baptists who are an embarrassment to the Truth. God will have to sort all these things out and separate the tares from the wheat when the time comes. I do not believe in the Morman religion, but I know Mitt Romney, as far as I can determine is not into what that sorry thug in our White House is in.

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    • Back To Reality
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:07pm

      What religion are you?

      Only reason I ask is because there isn‘t a religion out there that doesn’t have some sort of dysfunctional element in it’s history. Let he who is without sin…

      And I bet you have never in your life met a mormon with more than one wife. Ever.

      Even though I am agnostically deist, I find the criticisms between religions on issues that are of NO merit to be idiotic.

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    • jmcclena
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:34pm

      Atheist. I find most religion immoral and detrimental to society. And no, I’ve never met one personally, but turn on TLC Sundays at 9/8 Central and you’ll see a few.

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    • Back To Reality
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:08pm

      Well if you saw it on TV…then surely we must define all of them that way.

      I find religion to be useless for ME, but no more detrimental to society than atheism or agnosticism. I work for the baptists, I once worked for the catholics and presbyterians, was trained by protestants and episcopals, contracted to the jews…and although I find much of their doctrine to lack foundation in reality or common sense, I think it‘s certainly unrealistic to overtly and generally say that it’s dissolute, primary because my experiences are that they provide a substantial amount of assistance to society. I also cannot dispute the real stories where people’s lives were changed for the better when they embraced religion. I feel bad for them that it was their last or best option, but I can’t argue with the results. Beck himself being a perfect example of this.

      BTW, as an atheist, you should really care less if a bunch of consenting adults agree in plural marriage. It’s not hurting you or anyone else, and from an atheistic standpoint, it will be difficult for you to assign it to the category of immoral. I don‘t think it’s immoral. Wildly stupid maybe, but not immoral. Why do you care if a man has more than one wife?

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    • dexter morgan
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:09pm

      First of all it’s Mormon. Secondly, the TLC show you are referring to is called Sister Wives. They are NOT LDS/Mormon. No matter how badly you want to believe. If you are involved in polygamy, then you will be excommunicated.

      Now that we have that cleared up. There is no LDS “sect” There is only LDS. The people who have “broken” off have zero relation to the LDS church. The FLDS only share 3 letters. That’s it.

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    • inblack
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:40pm

      @JMCCLENA are you sure your religion is not troll?

      Another unfulfilled angry atheist?
      Please honey stop your denial of God, he loves you and will forgive you. And I’m afraid you will not find peace in your current state of mind.

      Anyway, I’m praying for you.

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    • jmcclena
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:49pm

      Lets get one thing straight, I have no problem with plural marriage if everyone is a consenting adult. When a child comes into the picture though, it is a different story, note in my original post I said “child brides.” Second, there is no doubt that religion has done good for society, but overall, it has been the single greatest divider or people in the history of humankind. It is incredibly detrimental to society. If we took the money tithed to the church over the past two millennia, imagine the scientific “miracles” that could have brought. Take a look at Bill Gates (an atheist) and his fight against malaria for an example.
      Anecdotal examples of religious goods are all fine, and no doubt it has done good, but one could write tomes dedicated to the atrocities, immorality, and hypocrisy of religion throughout history.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:17pm

      Clenna,

      While you’re still busy focusing all your attention on the negative and showing us your continued bias against religion, especially Christianity, you leave out all the good that Christianity has brought to this world like how Christianity has been the foundation of the abolition of slavery, freeing women from oppression, caring for the poor and needy, giving to charity, building orphanage institutions, preventing infanticide, forbidding human sacrifice, equality, caring for the wounded such as the Red Cross, erection of hospitals, these have their origins in Christianity. None of these are attached to deceitful atheistic schemes of man. None.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 12:18pm

      J

      I am not a Mormon. I lived in Salt Lake City for 7 years. The LDS Church does not sanction multiple spouses or child brides. In fact, these actions are against the law. I strongly disagree with the teachings of the LDS but most that I knew were good people.

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  • THXll38
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:33pm

    It is not a leftist view to accept gay marriage as a civil rights issue. It is only rational to allow something that will not affect the majority of social cons and the general public. If it does, tough shiz.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:45pm

      The diffusing argument is to say the federal government should have ZERO to do with marriage. It also happens to be the constitutional position

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:03pm

      It does affect others. We do not want or honor it. God says it is an abomination, and it is. God hold marriage as a sacred insitution and those who are attempting to defile this and those who go along with it are sin sick and have their conscious seared. It is silly and nothing any normal person could find otherwise.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:21pm

      The federal government dishonors everything they get their hands on. Let the states decide

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    • mtcountrygrl
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:58pm

      There are other legal issues here. For instance if you say that a man marrying a man is the legal equivalent of a man marrying a woman, than you are saying in the eyes of the law there is no difference between a man and a woman. Opens up all kinds of other questions. Should women be drafted, should men be allowed to work at Hooters? If men and women are legally the same…see where this is going. Then add in anti-discrimination laws, what about churches who refuse to honor these unions because of their beliefs. What about adoption? Should a gay couple be considered equal to a husband and wife (even though all studies show that children raised with a mother and a father turn out better). This is bigger than two folks that want to be together. If gays want to get married no one is stopping them, what we are arguing is under the law is gay marriage the legal equal to regular marriage. And that effects everyone!

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    • huntinwabbits
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:15am

      It goes way beyond that. If gay marriage becomes the new standard, then we accept that an abnormal lifestyle of a small percentage of people should be honored. This then must be expanded to the small percentage of people who want more than one wife, who want to marry their dogs, who want to marry their cars or other possessions. I don’t think gay rights enthusiasts really understand the precedent that will be set if the redefining of marriage becomes commonplace. When you start catering to the small abnormal percentages of society, then there are no bounds to that. If traditional marriage isn’t sacred then there can be no stopping of how far this will ultimately extend.

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  • redgypsy
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:32pm

    “PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Cue the homophobic right wing bigot comments in 3…2…1….”
    PettyDrama:
    You DO know that “phobic” means “irrationally afraid of”, right?
    I am certainly NOT afraid of homos or lesbians.

    I don’t agree with their lifestyle. But for crying out loud, quit re-defining words to mean something else.

    geesh.

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  • PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Cue the homophobic right wing bigot comments in 3…2…1….

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    • Caniac Steve
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:25pm

      2 things..A: if the president is so much in favor…why hasn’t he sent to congress va bil making gay marrage the law of the land as of yet ??
      B: why is your resonce sound rather “intolerant” .to someone who rely don’t give a ratts booty

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:13pm

      PETTYDRAMA, Now just what makes you think that we have a persistant, irrational fear of you or your fudge packing boy friend?

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 11:05pm

      I’ve thought it over, and frankly PETTYDRAMAQUEEN just fits better.

      Report Post » RJJinGadsden  
    • Meyvn
      Posted on May 23, 2012 at 8:10am

      Because we deny Him as Creator, He will give us over to that which appears unseemly. At this moment in time you’re watching it happen.

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  • Back To Reality
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:19pm

    I shared it once before, but the idea seems to not have been realized by the professionals; I propose that Obama knows he can’t win, and this will be his scapegoat. After he loses, he will avoid discussion on his horrible handling of the economy and everything else, and will claim that the gay marriage issue and the “intolerant nature” of the American voter as the reason why he was not re-elected.

    Too convenient.

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    • dexter morgan
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:19pm

      That’s fine by me. As long as he’s out of office, he could blame aliens and I wouldn’t care.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:15pm

    Glenn the core of the problem with Obama is not the fact of the gay marriage stance healping/hurting him; the core matter is he will use anything as a means to reelection, and when that fails the final seizure of power via martial law – assuming he allows the elections to happen in the first place.

    Obama will rule and control all or destroy all, nothing inbetween for him.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:14pm

    We are only in May, general election is 6 months away.

    Obama is only solidifying his base. Dont expect Romney to reach out the to constitutional libertarian or religious base of the republican party

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  • PETTYDRAMA
    Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:12pm

    Maybe Beck can also explain why him and Romney joined a cultist fringe religion aka Mormonism that believes it is okay to have multiple wives.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 8:35pm

      I am no fan of organized religion, but the modern-day Mormon(s) do not accept polygamy. There may be factions of the Mormon faith that do this, but it is indeed frowned upon in the LDS church.

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    • spirited
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:30pm

      @PETTY

      Neither Beck nor Romney have multiple wives.

      ;^> No drama there. See?

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 9:57pm

      It’s still safer to have many wives than many butt pirates and sword swallowers ever hear of AIDS.

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    • dexter morgan
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:22pm

      PETTYDRAMA:

      Just because you say it, doesn’t make it true. Your ignorance is showing. It helps to do at least 20 seconds of research so you don’t look like a fool.

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    • inblack
      Posted on May 22, 2012 at 10:43pm

      PETTYDRAMA = Troll

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