Posted on 01/18/2016 11:56:05 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) -- President Obama says that marriage's redefinition "is here to stay."
Obama's comments, which he directed in part at Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, came in response to a question from YouTube creator and open lesbian Ingrid Nilsen, who asked "if progress in the LGBT community is not here to stay in certain states?"
"Oh, no, it's here to stay," said the president. “Understand that the Supreme Court has ruled that under the Constitution everybody in all 50 states has the right to marry the person they love. That's now the law of the land. The fact that an Alabama judge is resisting is just a temporary gesture by this judge that will be rapidly overturned. It violates what's called the supremacy clause – when the Constitution speaks, everybody has to abide by it, and state laws, and state judges, can't overturn it. So you shouldn't be worried about that.”
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined marriage to include same-sex couples. However, Moore said the ruling does not have standing in his state because Alabama's marriage law is going to be ruled on by the state's Supreme Court later this year. That law was also upheld last March by the state's Supreme Court.
Marriage laws have typically been handled at the state level; many social conservatives said the Supreme Court's decision violated the U.S. Constitution by forcing all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Obama also said that "the process of changing people's attitudes, the process of treating the LGBT community with full equality and respect, making sure they're not discriminated [against] on the job, or in housing, or in things like that, those are areas where we've still got significant work to do."
"And for young people, making sure they're not bullied, that requires the participation of all of us. We're not there yet."
According to Obama, "amazing strides" have been made over the last two decades in changing how Americans view same-sex relationships. “The notion that you'd discriminate against someone because of sexual orientation is so out of sync with how most young people think – including young Republicans, young Democrats. … This is an issue that is going to be moving in the right direction as long as we stay vigilant and keep working on it.”
This is the same thing that totalitarians used to say about slavery and segregation.
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Same thing was said about slavery at one time.
The Fuhrer has spoken! Sieg Heil!
Respect to Alabama.
no it isn’t, Mr. Obama
The Constitution “speaks,” but when it doesn’t 5 robed communists make it up according to their personal agenda. Obama may have to blackmail a couple of the robed ones.
Ha...when he mm ajes declarations like that...usually within next week he is denied...God will rule not you, BO
The mayor of Sodom said the same thing.
Look out, Catherine Zeta-Jones, I'm coming for you !
The same thing that I immediately thought. 0bama is a tool, but a very dull one at that.
Maybe..but only until Jesus returns...
Unfortunately it required a war, the split of the Democrats, and a change in the high court to get rid of that.
Sorry Barry, I choose what I want to accept and you and your queer buddies are not in the short list.
After the whole polygamy thing starts to pick up speed, there will be a general re-thinking.
Homosexual marriage will last longer than green bananas, but the clock is ticking on it.
Irritates me to end to watch this muzzie pretender speak as if he’s some holy deity and dictate to us what’s here to stay and what isn’t
Guess what Hussein...you’re not here to stay and neither is gay marriage.
It’s clear LGBTQetc is very close to Obama’s heart.
I wonder if it’s because it’s a reliable one-issue voting group, or because it’s a cause which screws up American culture, or he really means it. I ask, because he’s really convinced me that Islam is what he cares about, and you know how Muslims (officially) feel about the LGBTQetc crowd.
Does he really mean it? I can’t tell.
The left may continue pretending that gay “marriage” has some connection to the real thing, but that will not change the facts.
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