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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
He always has been, this is just yet another miscalculated political move on his part.
The way the anti-God creep talks about Jesus is nauseating, he infers that Jesus would agree with sodomite marriage. Apparently the dunce never read this verse.
In Matthew Ch. 19 and Mark Ch. 10, Jesus says, “A man shall leave his family and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one.” He doesn’t say two men, two women, two people, a man and three women, a woman and her dog, etc.
Stop discussing fantasies about Romney. As of one hour ago he stated his “unequivocal” stand that marriage is between a man and woman only. Others have posted here how gay marriage was passed in Mass. Over his objection, followed by analyses here of how he somehow should have ignored the Mass. Supreme court, etc.
Romney opposes same sex marriage, Obama supports same sex marriage.
He’s just trying to hold a handful of states (Cal, Oregon, Wash, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York) so that he doesn’t get crushed worse than McGovern or Mondale did.
Exactly!
Funny, I would have described his so-called "thought process" as a "cynically crafted lie"...
Does that mean he is coming out of closet LOL!
What a terribly impotent Governor Romney must have been.
...why, that darn Massachusetts "made" Mitt do all sorts of things that he was against. *(snort)
Marriage is between one man and one woman,It’s not a conservative view but a true American view give it back soon.
Now he states this around the world then this can be used against him to many in certain communities.
For instance is a black person states they are going to vote for obama then I’ll be saying”really wow I had no idea you were for homosexuals to be married and thus teach homosexual sex t little kids in the schools”
Rest assured that while i ma not typing on here due to no PC I am getting out our message.
Good luck to all and don’t be fooled by this corrupt pro homo, cross dressing media as every state which votes, states they want normal marriage.
Marriage equality ARF then should a man marry two women, all about equality and right you know.
The word equality is a cop out and one which sounds good but then if they want equality in marriage then don’t stop at same sex, have relatives, more than one spouse etc
ARF
Right have to give this thing back and in the mean time I have to save more pennies to get myself a new PC
This was settled four years ago when Romney ran the first time. Unlike what is stated in your quote, the Mass Court did not legalize gay marriage. All their decision did was order the Mass legislature to change the law on the books that prohibited gays from marrying. Even the Mass Court in its orders stated it could not constitutionally change the law itself. But the legislature didn’t do anything. So it was Romney to the rescue for the gays. He ordered the Justices of the peace and the clerks to marry gays, or they would be fired. No law was changed by the legislature which is what the Mass Court had demanded.
But the quote correctly stated that Romney was reluctant about backing a state constitutional amendment defending marriage. They asked him about supporting one in 2002 when something could have been done, but he refused saying that it would be too extreme a measure. He later changed his mind and reluctantly supported one in 2004, but since gay marriage had already been instituted by him, it was too late. The damage had already been done. Once Romney gave the gays what they wanted, the democrats who controlled the Mass legislature saw no need to do anything more. To this day the legislature has not allowed the people of Mass to decide anything. So by Romney’s executive order we have gay marriage in Massachusetts.
And regardless of what the liberal Wikipedia has to say, Mitt Romney is the real reason there is gay marriage in Massachusetts today.
Personally he strike me as the “Woman” in the relationship if you know what I mean LOL!
Gallup polling recently showed that on average U.S. citizens think 20% of the population is homosexual. Their article explained this was a massive overestimation since other polling shows the actual homosexual population is around 2% I think it was. So "Project 10" has been a smashing success 2 times over.
A very high percentage of Blacks voted ‘for’ the amendment in NC to ban Gay marriage.
VJ is FOS.
North Carolina is gone. Obama will lose every Southern state, including, Virginia, Florida and Texas. And....his losses of other states mount as every day passes. Remember, I predicted a few days back, Obama will only carry between eight to twelve states and lose the POTUS in a landslide defeat. He is on his way to a massive defeat. And....even better....he will take many other Democrat political hacks with him.
Well, not everybody believes in evolution, Mr. Zero.
Furthermore, some of us call that "place" Sodom, and you know what happened to it?
As for coming to this..."place" after consulting your daughters, who are 13 and 10 years old -- I trust they know as much about homosexuality as Amy Carter did about nuclear weapons?
What an incredible ego.
Do we all understand that he need to go??
Have you seen the video of his sons with Mike Wallace? "Bi" comes to mind with at least half of them. There is no doubt there is a genetic link to some serious gay traits going on here. Also some highly publicized artificial insemination with at least one of the Romney offshoots.
I'm sure it will all be made abundantly clear, after Mitt is President, in which case I predict a surprise(!) revelation or two in the GOP future. (That's progress in the direction of demoralization of the USA, whether you have an "R" or a "D"..ain't it grand, gay and flamboyant.)
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?
Barak is one of those “Down Low” Brothas
Barak is one of those “Down Low” Brothas
Obama sold his soul for a vote.....actually he’s the devil himself!!!
“The day after NC, which went heavily for Obammie the Commie in 2008, trounced gay marriage...not just in a piece of common legislation but in their state constitution.”
Whats a conservative democrat? Isnt that an extinct species?
Will Zer0’s daughters be able to marry each other?
by the time they are ready to get married the family pet may be legal for one of them to marry.
Blackmailed by his own base. Support it or be outed. Grab the popcorn!
You NAILED IT!!!!
You can be a closeted gay UNLESS YOU GO AGAINST THE AGENDA. Romney is OK to most gays. They don’t have to vote Obama. They would have NO TROUBLE outing Obama either. One whiff to the media that it’s OK and you would see the kind of vetting George Bush would have gotten if he had slept his way through gay bars in his 20s.
(I hope they make him jump through MORE gay hoops. He spoke today like a man with a hood on and Khalid Sheik Mohammed beside him with a machete.)
I was just invited on TV to discuss this tomorrow!
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