delegation to the russia olympics in sochi and said it will include openly gay athletes. this is in defiance of russia s recent crackdown on homosexuality. i support same sex marriage. i am a gay rights advocate from the right. and clearly the president is delivering a strong message to russia in this. but aren t there stronger messages we need to deliver to russia on say, syria and iran? yes. but the olympics maybe the olympics is a place to deliver a message to brush the invasion of afghanistan but i love this message. i think this is a great in your face message. he is with holding presidential excellence, vice presidential excellence, first lady excellence, what is he doing? he is sending them gays and the lesbians. i thought it was brilliant. i m super excited about it and i think it is interesting that you can now have a president of the united states slap down putin on the issue of gay rights. that wouldn t have been possible ten years ago and now it is. it seems to me rep