I agree with the writer that President Obama’s statement in ’08 concerning “when human rights begin” and his “evolving” position on marriage rights were likely cop-outs, but what about Mitt Romney’s back-and-forth position? Now, he’s for gay adoption but against gay marriage or civil unions. (The earnestness of such a position strains credulity, since it’s an inherently contradictory stand.) But back when he was running for Senate in Massachusetts, he claimed he’d be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy! The liberal lion of the Senate. At least, on the marriage front, Obama’s dilatory tactics finally gave way to allow him to move forward on the issue. Romney just moved back.

This editorial is disingenuous. Just because you disagree, however vehemently, with the “evolving” positions of a politician, doesn’t mean you should ignore the devolving positions of his competitor whom you presumably support.

By the way, human rights would begin when the human being is, you know, actually a human. Otherwise, it would be pre-human rights. Just sayin’.