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Obama: 'I think same sex couples should be able to get married'
MSNBC ^ | 5/9/12 | Michael O'Brien

Posted on 05/09/2012 12:49:24 PM PDT by Nachum

Updated 3:15 p.m. ET- President Barack Obama endorsed the right of same-sex couples to marry on Wednesday, a landmark pronouncement made in light of mounting pressure from gay rights advocates.

Obama became the first U.S. president to back the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry, a reversal from views expressed during the 2008 campaign, when he said he opposed same-sex marriage but favored civil unions as an alternative.

Obama told ABC News that, after reflection, he had "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."

In making his announcement, Obama completes what he had described as an “evolution” in his views on this issue, hastened by growing fervor this week involving gay rights. The growing pressure was capped Tuesday by North Carolina voters’ approval of a constitutional amendment banning not only same-sex marriages, but civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, as well.

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KEYWORDS: couples; homosexualagenda; married; obama; samesexmarriage; sex
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To: Nachum
"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."

Has he told the Wookie that he's getting divorced, yet?

21 posted on 05/09/2012 1:16:36 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: outofsalt

“when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on MY behalf and yet feel constrained...”
Somehow, it’s always about him.


22 posted on 05/09/2012 1:19:40 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: outofsalt
Follow the money

1 in 6 Bundler told him no cash unless he said this before they gave him a dime.

23 posted on 05/09/2012 1:24:37 PM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: Nachum; All
obozo should start officiating gay weddings in the White House to show how fabulous they and he are. It could be weekly to help the country “evolve”. Maybe raffle off honeymoon nights in the Lincoln bedroom to help raise money for his sodo-friendly reelection campaign.

I'm so sick of this pathetic twisted looser. This sodo-commie POS has to go.

24 posted on 05/09/2012 1:24:55 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available 4 FREE at CpForLife.org)
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To: outofsalt

What in the world are all the Catholic Hispanic voters do now?

Do they vote for the person given them free stuff, or against the will of their God?

This “should” at least lower his % of Hispanic support by 10%.


25 posted on 05/09/2012 1:27:04 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Sooth2222

why does michell want to marry hillary?


26 posted on 05/09/2012 1:29:01 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nachum
For some reason centrist voters go apeshit over this sort of stuff, calling trying to stop civil unions as trying to “legislate in their bedroom”. Otherwords, most voters are scared of social conservatives.
27 posted on 05/09/2012 1:31:19 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: ColdOne

While he is at it, why doesn’t he come out and advocate multiple wives, like other Muslim leaders...come on OUT of the Closet Mr. Hussein.....


28 posted on 05/09/2012 1:31:33 PM PDT by rovenstinez (u)
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To: Nachum

Of course, zero believes in “gay” marriage——the destruction of the meaning and twisting of words is the Marxist method-—to destroy the idea of “the laws of nature and nature’s God” our very Constituiton.......

...to destroy the natural family as we knew it for thousands of years in all cultures. Why? Because the Marxist in Chief has to destroy Virtue and morality in children by normalizing the behavior—to create a mass of useful idiots that can no longer use logic and reason which is derived from the Laws of Nature.

If sodomy is “good”, then what possibly can be evil. Destroys all sexual morality—the easiest way to collapse societies. (Freud).

Marx hates God and the family. His radical egalitarianism demands no differences—including the logical scientific and biological ones of man and women. It is to destroy the concept of God the Father-—the Designer—The Lawgiver—so that Zero can be god and decide Right and Wrong for the masses of slaves. Homosexual “marriage” is being forced on our children as “normal” and “sodomy is good” also, especially in MSM like Glee. Sick ideas are posited in children’s minds to form their godless/atheist worldview.

There can be no Supra Positive Laws in zero’s godless world which is Hitler and Stalin and Mao’s societies.


29 posted on 05/09/2012 1:31:48 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Nachum

“when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf”

Enough about my opinions on homosexualists and the honorable estate of marriage.
Let’s talk about me and some guys who, well—frankly I’m not worthy of licking their boots clean, but I thought I’d drag them into this as I always do when I’m making a bold decision following weeks of indecision accompanied by nagging and browbeating by my keepers and gays with deep pockets.
Many years ago I was born when a bright star appeared in the Heavens, and delivered in a manger in, well, you know where I’m going! Ha ha ha.
And we were visited by three old white guys who brought some cool stuff and when I was 12 I taught the elders logic and quantum mechanics, and began drafting autobiographical books on myself and my struggles and .....


30 posted on 05/09/2012 1:34:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (Put some ice on it Ricardo.)
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To: Nachum

How is he going to explain this to Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud?


31 posted on 05/09/2012 1:35:02 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: skinndogNN

not even about religion.

What about people with children?

What about parents who want to be grandparents?

What about retired (democrat) people who need children to be born to pay into social security?

What about business people who will have to pay for the private sexual recreation of their employees? (healthcare costs etc?)

What about the whole slew of dollar costs to society in general which have to be undertaken to accomodate homosexuals’ short attention spans?


32 posted on 05/09/2012 1:43:28 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nachum

Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.


33 posted on 05/09/2012 1:49:55 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Nachum

The entire “same sex marriage” message is nothing more than an attack on Christianity. Obama has no problem with this stand. He does not believe in the Bible or Christianity. Do liberal Christians need any more proof?


34 posted on 05/09/2012 1:51:27 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Obama’s shift not only speaks to a broad swath of the electorate, which has exhibited increasing acceptance of same-sex marriage in opinion polls”

They continue to believe their own propaganda. Voters continue to overwhelmingly reject this “obamanation”


35 posted on 05/09/2012 1:58:17 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Nachum
'I think same sex couples should be able to get married'

And I think BO ought to be impeached, removed from office, tried and convicted for treason, and shot by a firing squad up against a concrete wall in downtown Raleigh.

But neither of those things are going to happen in my state.

36 posted on 05/09/2012 2:09:32 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: Nachum

Yep! Still as queer as a $3.00 bill.


37 posted on 05/09/2012 2:11:28 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repub's paid as much attention to Rush Limbaugh as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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To: Nachum
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'I think same sex couples should be able to get married'

And I think BO ought to be impeached, removed from office, tried and convicted for treason, and shot by a firing squad up against a concrete wall in downtown Raleigh.

But neither of those things are going to happen in my state.

38 posted on 05/09/2012 2:11:32 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: Nachum

Of course Obammy is for gay marriage. He’s married to a man after all ain’t he?


39 posted on 05/09/2012 2:17:28 PM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Nachum
Obama: 'I think same sex couples should be able to get married'

Jesus Christ: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (Leviticus 20:13)

40 posted on 05/09/2012 2:22:25 PM PDT by nonsporting
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