Personal Preference vs. Public Policy

Maybe President Obama decided at age five, 'I believe in marriage, and I think it should be between a
man and a woman.' We don't know.
Then when President Obama was ten, he may have decided one day he would get married. We don't
know for certain.
When President Obama turned thirty or forty, he may have heard that gay people wanted traditional
marriage certificates.
When President Obama got a bit older, he may have decided marriage is fine for all people- but only
privately as couples, not as public policy in an initiative.
So when we don't see the exact timeline of President Obama's gay marriage evolution of thought, we
feel the urge to call him a liar, right?
Wrong.
We still don't know his timeline. We may never know.
And we don't know when he began to believe in it as a good American public policy.
Why would we be so anxious to use that word, 'liar'.
Maybe some of us have been dying to use that word for years. And finally, we found a way to jump
at the opportunity.
I am certainly happy not to be one of those people.