Obama's support for gay marriage splits US

This post's title is a headline from the BBC web site.  While the extremists on both sides - and the presidential campaigns - may be split, I doubt that many Americans are as concerned with the issue.  Admittedly, it is an important issue, but most people I know think that too much - much too much - is being made of it.  Perchance, the media thinks it will sell papers or ads or increase their visitor count.

There are more important issues that the media is ignoring, such as our ineffective governmental leaders of both persuasions, our growing militarism, our terrible unemployment, our movement towards a 1984 world, and on and on.