Which One Of These Is Not Like The Other?

Which one of these folks is getting raked over the coals for their position on gay marriage, and which one is skating without so much as a raised eyebrow? This person, whose topless photos have apparently caused quite a stir:



or, this person, whose topless photos also cause quite the stir (and tingling in the pants of Chris Matthews):


Carrie Prejean or President Barack Obama? Both hold precisely the same view on gay marriage, which is to say both personally oppose it, and yet it's Prejean who's being attacked in the media for her position, while President Obama, who actually is in a position to take action on gay marriage and to use the bully pulpit to further the gay rights movement, has not received a fraction of the scrutiny on his gay marriage posture that Prejean has.

Prejean, for those who aren't paying attention, was Miss California and had a truthful answer about gay marriage during the Miss USA pageant. The fallout has revealed just how thuggish the left can be. Jammie has the details.

It still doesn't explain why the President's position on gay marriage hasn't come under the same kind of withering attack unless it is because the media is willing to look the other way and forgive Obama on this issue knowing that they'll get so much of the rest of their agenda adopted?

Does the media understand how asinine this all looks? Do they even care?

My position on gay marriage is this: if the individual states want to impose it legislatively, it is entirely up to the individual states. They can decide for themselves, based on how conservative or liberal they choose to be on the matter. And this isn't simply a GOP/Democratic party split on the matter, given that the overwhelming majority of African Americans oppose gay marriage even as they vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates. The California Proposition 8 ballot shows this point explicitly.

Gay marriage should not be imposed from the bench, despite the will of the people of those states. Judicial diktat is not the way to make this happen. Maine has become the latest state to legislatively authorize gay marriage. That's the right course to take.

Meanwhile, the District of Columbia has passed a bill authorizing gay marriage, over the opposition of Marion Barry and black church leaders throughout the city. It now goes to the Congress to approve within 30 days. If Congress takes no action on the bill, it automatically becomes law.

In the meantime, I await President Obama's leadership on the matter [that's sarcasm for all you folks out there].

UPDATE:
Even the New York Times is finally calling on the President to get engaged and speak out about the gay marriage issue. Of course, there are also those who think that Obama's opposition to gay marriage thus far is nothing more than a political ploy to curry favor in the African American community, and I'm inclined to believe that to be the case.