What Biden's Gaff Says About Modern Day Politics

So let me conjecture that the President will cave to the left's demands and announce that he is no longer opposed to gay marriage. My next question would be: What's next? DADT is no more, the Defense of Marriage Act is effectively gone with the solicitor general being instructed not to argue in favor of the law before the courts. What exactly would the legislation that the administration would propose with this newfound (or evolved) position? Short of a constitutional amendment mandating states to recognize gay marriage I honestly don't know what will change. Maybe you could argue that the administration could publicly come out against "gay marriage bans" in states like North Carolina...oh wait, already did that.

Biden's Gaff (and yes, I think it was a gaff) is an example of where politics has become less an issue of governing and much more an issue of feelings and yes, it goes both ways. Republicans are constantly under pressure to say that America was founded as a Christian nation. Okay, let's say it was and thereby making America a "Christian Nation". What next? Are we going to pass a constitutional amendent to mandate crosses and crèche's on all public land? Are we going to mandate a christian prayer at all high school graduations? Reinstate bible studies in public schools? I seriously doubt it, but the acknowledgement that a politician views the United States as a "Christian Nation" is apparently important to a large body of the electorate.

Has it always been this way? I don't know, probably. But what does it matter? I really think this type of debate is pointless when it comes to the mandate that our elected officials are sent to Washington to do and that is GOVERN. 

On a side note, am I the only one who finds it interesting that we now have a party who elected a president, all the while knowing his position on a highly controversial social issue, a position that is not shared by the vast majority of his party and all the while, his party accepts the idea that the president does not actually hold that view privately. Can anyone think of a similar position a president has taken and his party has essentially given him a pass on it? I honestly cannot. 

oh and i'm not going to proofread this. i'm tired.