Posted on 05/09/2012 11:43:02 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Obama today announced that he now supports
same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure
from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president
described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place,
based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian
service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several
years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about
members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous
relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I
think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there
fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't
Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at
a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for
me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get
married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning
America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World
News with Diane Sawyer.”
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You have ALL of them together except the bicycle.
Thanks!
Amazing. Just amazing. Obama for once has chosen to speak honestly. He must really be in trouble.
Amazing. Just amazing. Obama for once has chosen to speak honestly. He must really be in trouble.
I sure hope you left off a sarc tag. Conservatives support the right of parents to discuss sex education with their children and have the nanny state butt the hell out of their business.
Flip-flopper.
How so?
you beat me to it!!!! Now to have ROMNEY come out against it..........or? If Romney sides with Obama, ( which I hope he doesn’t!!!)
we have lost our country. GOD HELP US!
Amen to that. I am so SICK of the movement to equate skin color with sexual choices.
This is a desperation move.
The gays were going nuclear over the NC vote yesterday, especially in light of the fact that the ‘Rat convention is to be held in NC this summer.
Somebody had to go under the bus. It was either to be the socially conservative Democrats or the gays. Obama chose to keep the gays and dump the socially conservative Democrats.
We will see in November how well this plays out in NC, FL, OH, PA, NH, IA, WI, MI, NM, CO, and NV.
We really need to challenge this strawman about gay marriage being like civil rights. gay is not a visible trait, personally, I don’t care what form of sex people choose to have or whom they cohabitate with as long as it is within the law. There is no such thing as discrimination against gay people, there is however an adversion to certain life styles, so what’s next if you don’t like the hip hop lifestyle of the youngsters that wear hoodies and pants down to their knees are you guily of a hate crime?
You cannot discrimate against gay people if you have no idea that they are gay, why does this group feel the need to impose their sexuality on the rest of the population?
Yes the State Supreme Court controls the law, your answer is rather uninformed. But help Obama get elected and you can have the US Supreme Court mandate gay marriage nation wide. Then you can snort about that, too.
Obama lost part of that 10% when he very visibly back stabbed the Catholic Church on the abortion issue. If he losses the gays to "MA" Romney, he is toast.
he has always supported it
Unlike Obama, Romney will wait till AFTER the election to fess up, He is not counting on donations from donors that demand he admit it.
Massachusetts got gay marriage when Romney changed the forms and instructed town clerks and JP’s to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The legislature refused to act on the unconstitutional Goodrich decision, but Romney made it happen through his own executive actions.
No law changed, the MA laws on marriage now are the same as they were before Mitt acted.
“He’s running against a guy who forced gay marriage on Massachusetts by executive action.”
I am not sure what “executive action” you are referring to.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts are the entity that established gay marriage in Massachusetts.
I think it was a desperation move that will backfire on Hussein. But the calculation involves more than just numbers of individuals in each category.
Gays are wealthier, more productive, better connected and more activist than Christian Conservative Democrats. They are very much single-issue voters and they were working up a big ol' gay hissy fit over the NC vote yesterday. Christian Conservative Democrats include many blacks who might stay on the plantation for the black President in spite of the gay.
How much courage does it really take? He already supports a woman being able to murder her unborn child. Whats homosexual marriage got on that extreme and sick position?
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