Dreams From My Two Fathers

Perhaps that will be the title of a memoir written by a future president:

President Obama is celebrating Father's Day a day late this year, after giving a nod to nontraditional fathers in his official proclamation.

Mr. Obama is joining leaders of fatherhood groups, women's organizations, the NFL Players Association and the National PTA, at an inner city arts and recreation campus, to launch a drive to promote responsible fatherhood and to re-engage absent fathers with their families.

His Father's Day proclamation said nurturing families come in many forms and children may be raised, "by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather or caring guardian." It's the first time "two fathers" has made that list. CBN writer David Brody says Mr. Obama is "running the risk of alienating networks of pastors and church goers."

Obama lost most pastors and church goers long ago, so this proclamation won't really change anything. It is, however, another fine example of what the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan called "defining deviancy down".