> But here Obama has been as forthright as anyone could be. I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian, he said in a 2008 Christianity Today interview......
He was also against gay marriage back then but has “evolved”. i.e. he was lying all along for the sake of political expediency.
Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a sacred union, Axelrod wrote in the book