Family Day loses all meaning...

From the Wall Street Journal via Pewsitter;

This year, President Barack Obama has signed a slew of proclamations recognizing everything from “Equal Pay Day” to “National Maritime Day” to “Irish-American Heritage Month.” Over the years, presidents have signed thousands of them.

Some of the topics are celebratory. Others, like last week’s Gold Star Mother’s and Families’ Day, in recognition of fallen troops’ survivors, are somber.

Today, however, Obama is taking Family Day as an opportunity to make the kind of statement you didn’t hear from the Bush White House. “Whether children are raised by two parents, a single parent, grandparents, a same-sex couple, or a guardian, families encourage us to do our best and enable us to accomplish great things.” (So a same-sex couple is casually inserted into the list of more traditional forms of family, as if it's no big deal. What crap.)

The Bush administration’s Family Day proclamations tended to emphasize “healthy marriages and responsible fatherhood.”

Of course, presidents have always tried to use their ceremonial functions to send social messages — and same-sex parents have been trying to get the president’s attention ever since some activists brought their children to the Bush White House’s Easter Egg Roll in 2006. The Obamas, sensitive to criticism that the administration has not acted on key gay-rights issues, officially invited gay families to their holiday event earlier this year. (Whoop-dee-dew, aren't we so politically sensitive. Wonder when he'll invite the families of active duty military to something like this? Yeah, I know that was a stupid question.)