A day may come when President Barack Obama won't have anything on his plate that's more important than trifling gay rights issues and then we can ask the president to make good on some of the promises he made to gay and lesbian voters during the election.

Of course since gay rights issues are trifling and unimportant it's unlikely that we'll ever see a day when this president—or any future president—isn't facing issues and crises that are more important than gay rights issues, so...