AUTHOR JACK R KNIGHT (MONEY BEHIND OBAMAS GAY RIGHTS )

America and the world have known for years Obama's position on same-sex marriage; consequently he didn't sink nor damage the ship of state, but why the administration would push this issue now - money, lots of money.

It was a no brainer, the homosexual community, same as the president of Russia, knew they would be pacified as soon as Obama became "more flexible."

Within 24 hours after Obama's announcement, the Learjet liberals, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand and other Rolls Royce leftists raised more than $12 million for the Obama campaign.

The announcement wasn't for the gay vote, since the Democrat Party has forever kept these folks vote in Gore's lock box. Money equates to more votes for Obama. Therefore these high-dollar, tinsel-town, limo-chauffeured events will continue regardless of Obama's position on this issue.

The same-sex marriage issue is an effective diversion tactic used by Obama's re-election campaign to obscure his dismal record of the past four years.

Neither did Obama improve his position by throwing the poor, hardworking, churchgoing blacks of America under the freedom bus just to appease the lug nuts of North Hollywood.

The administration and the press would have you believe same-sex marriage is a vanguard issue. These people are salivating over the valor of the president for making this a focal issue, and the press, they continue to quote polls from "viable sources" claiming Americans, in the majority, favor same-sex marriage.

This just is not true. Marriage is defined as the union of one man and one woman in 42 states in America. Thirty-three states have amended their constitutions banning same-sex unions.

Folks, the middle class is suffering - suffering from no jobs and low wages; skyrocketing groceries, $4 gasoline and steep utility bills. The issue is the ECONOMY not same-sex marriage,

The declining middle class can no longer support itself, much less pay the IOUs of Main Street poverty and Wall Street gluttony.

The trillions of dollars of debt placed on these folks have become unbearable and can no longer be sustained. Now who is going to pay these bills?

Jack Knight is a retired Los Angeles City Schools mathematics and computer science teacher. He lives in Collins. Reach him at knight3230@att.net.