Newsweek sparks controversy over Obama image

A week after the magazine Time made ​​available on its cover a picture of a woman nursing a child , Newsweek qualifies Barack Obama "the first gay president "in a controversial cover. The cover story of Newsweek 's May 21 shows a photo of the  president with a "halo rainbow "The rainbow is the symbol they have chosen for their banners militant groups of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals. The item that corresponds to the front he wrote Andrew Sullivan, gay political blogger. The magazine still has not released all the items online version, but Sullivan advanced on his blog that "Obama had to discover their identity as black and then reconcile with his white family, the same way that homosexuals find their identity and then have to reconcile as their heterosexual family. " Sullivan argues that Obama's decision to announce that he is in favor of gay marriage has not been a political maneuver aimed at the November election. "When one pauses and assesses Obama's record on gay rights one sees that in fact this was not an aberration," he continued. "It was the inevitable culmination of three years of work." Last week "Time", which competes with "Newsweek" for the same market weekly magazine readership, scandalized many with its cover photo in which a woman breastfeeding a child three years old. The image sparked protests in a country where public breastfeeding is rare and is even illegal in many places. The fact that breastfeeding was also a grown child, shocked the public good.