{"id":2601,"date":"2012-05-09T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/05\/yesterday.html"},"modified":"2012-05-09T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:03:00","slug":"yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/05\/yesterday.html","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, yesterday came suddenly<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Lennon and McCartney, 1965<\/div>\n<p>Boy, what a difference a day makes.\u00a0 Only a day ago, our President was assuring our country that while he, like the Catholic Church, affirms the rights and equality of gay individuals in all conceivable respects, he doesn\u2019t support gay marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s ancient history.\u00a0 Back when the pyramids were built, Stonehenge, the Mayan temples.\u00a0 Because today, our President has assured us that <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he actually supports gay marriage<\/a>.\u00a0 Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>The difference I see?\u00a0 Many in the GOP, and conservatives in general,\u00a0are skeptical about Mitt Romney\u2019s convictions, even though these flips and flops suggest he is more conservative now than ever.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because both logic and common sense suggests that a person who changes based on the way the wind is blowing can easily change anything based on the way the wind is blowing.\u00a0 This is big news that should reveal much if we look at how the Left reacts to Obama\u2019s whiplash-inducing change of heart. After all, we\u2019re not talking about a long agonizing process.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about being told that convictions were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/may\/7\/obama-comfortable-opposes-gay-marriage\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one thing a day or two ago<\/a>, and another today. <\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0how are those on the Left reacting?\u00a0 Well, so far, based on what I\u2019ve seen and heard, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/05\/west-hollywood-celebrates-obamas-support-of-gay-marriage.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">they are dancing in the streets<\/a>.\u00a0 Does it matter that this has all the aroma of a cheap political ploy, either orchestrated or as a result of pressure from White House underlings?\u00a0 Apparently not.\u00a0 The power of the progressive movement is that yesterday\u2019s universal moral truth is today\u2019s\u00a0archaic thinking that all hip, enlightened people obviously reject.\u00a0 Truth is merely that which I can get people to affirm so that I can have whatever I want now. <\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t easy having a society based on the latest whims and fancies.\u00a0 But when everyone, including a growing number of representatives of a 2000 year old faith, seem to be catching the waves, it\u2019s hard to argue against.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, yesterday came suddenly Lennon and McCartney, 1965 Boy, what a difference a day makes.\u00a0 Only a day ago, our President was assuring our country that while he, like the Catholic Church, affirms the rights and equality of gay individuals in all conceivable respects, he doesn\u2019t support gay marriage. Well, that\u2019s ancient history.\u00a0 Back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yesterday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/05\/yesterday.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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