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As much as I would like to see gay marriage one day become a reality in this country, I also realize that it isn't what is most important at the moment. We have more serious problems that need to be dealt with immediately and none of those are going to be fixed as long as this administration retains the complete control that it currently holds.
Currently, there are a great deal of conservatives that are beginning to understand that we are bogged down in an unwinnable war that is costing billions of dollars. They see the need for changing the course, so to speak (which is why the phrase "staying the course" has suddenly become quite unfashionable). However, scare the base with all this talk of gay marriage becoming a reality, and they just might put those other feelings aside for a while. If that happens and the republicans win, gay rights are a moot point anyway. So is any hope of fixing the problems caused by this administration.
Sometimes you have to put what is important to you on hold for a while for the greater good. I would be willing to wait 10 years for gay marriage to be a reality, if it meant that we could stop seeing our soldiers die at a rate of 100 a month in a war that is spiraling out of control, bring some fiscal responsibility back to Washington, and use some of those billions to try to fight diseases that kill far more Americans than any terrorist attack ever has.
That's not hiding anything. It's prioritizing.
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