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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I am sure the SuperPacs will be hitting this issue hard as will other interest groups. We have an economy in the tank, high unemployment, a $15.7 trillion debt and $1 trillion plus budget deficits for the last three years (soon to be four), Obamacare, a downgrade of credit rating, a backdoor amnesty, an out of control EPA that is shutting down our economy thru regulations, and a host of other issues.
Obama wants us to focus on gay marriage and what ever else he tosses out there to distract us. He wants to set the agenda about what this election is going to be about. We must make sure it is about Obama and his policies. Of course, gay marriage will be part of this campaign. We just disagree as to how central it will be. We will just agree to disagree.
>> Obama has thought about gay marriage for a couple years <<
Not entirely correct. He said he was FOR IT way back in 1996, when he was running for the Illinois Senate.
True..its hard to keep up with the human lie machine that is B.O. However, I was going by his latest statement.
Some here should stop slaming Romney about that as it is Obama , current POTUS shamefully who declared his gay support !
May be Obamination made that statement for political reasons
and also, and firstable ,because he is a liberal puppet promoting an agenda of destruction of our western values and civilisation....Anyway it could backclash against ObHamas if republicans and conservative are smart enough to use that properly .
Watched CNN yesterday night from France . They were in full propaganda mode for gay mariage . Those liberal activists are not putting gloves anymore and don’t even try to look fair and balanced . They are trying to portray opponents to gay mariage as retards and bigots as usual....
Why is this even an issue? Fudgepacking is abnormal behavior, not a civil right!
Van Jones is FOS in many ways. All of his ways are FOS actually.
hear, hear..
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