President Obama Announces Support for Marriage Equality

[JeffR]

Read the full article on the blog.

" 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." - Barack Obama, May 9, 2012

[jaxx]

Our President is a fair and just man. One that will go down in history for his support of equality for all.

[Willinois]

It just occurred to me what great timing this is. The headlines today were going to be about NC voting against gay marriage. The narrative would have been that rights are being rolled back. Now the story is about how marriage rights are advancing. Obama just erased the damage done in NC.

[Fire1]

Oh goody! Now, he's on the "right side of history."

[azmouse]

(05-09-2012 06:36 PM)Fire1 Wrote:  Oh goody! Now, he's on the "right side of history."

I don't understand your statement.
Are you angry that Obama has said he is for equality?

[KonaKane]

I'm watching the fallout from this declaration by our President, and it's very interesting.

The right wing is not actually opposing his stance. They are bashing him, instead, for a supposed "flip flop". That suggests to me they AGREE with him and won't say so because they consider it a political liability.