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Obama announces his support for same-sex marriage

ABC OTUS News ^ | May 9, 2012 | Rick Klein

Posted on 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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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well that should be the final nail in his coffin this November...



To: Free ThinkerNY

WOW



by 3 posted onby ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)

To: Free ThinkerNY

Surprise! Surprise! I guess he’s given up on North Carolina entirely. Better move the convention.



To: apillar

Thats Nasty!



To: Free ThinkerNY

Feeling the heat a day after the NC defeat.



by 6 posted onby CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)

To: WashingtonSource

Surprise! Surprise! I guess hes given up on North Carolina entirely. Better move the convention. Wouldn't that be sweet! ;-D



by 7 posted onby nutmeg (Rest in peace, and thank you, Andrew Breitbart)

To: WashingtonSource

They already have 14,000 signatures to move the convention.



by 8 posted onby massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)

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To: Free ThinkerNY

For Democrats, Blackness outweighs Religious Values. No surprise to Conservatives, we knew he was lying his ass off before.



To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama is finally out of the closet. Pun intended.



To: Free ThinkerNY

If you would destroy a country first destroy it’s

history and traditions.



by 12 posted onby tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

To: Free ThinkerNY

conversations with . . . own daughters Wow! What a dad! Suppose he told them about Larry Sinclair . . . ya' know . . . just to use as an example? Huh? This guys a creep!



To: Free ThinkerNY

And that just lost him most of the country. He Kinkied his own campaign (so named after Kinky Friedman, who ran for governor in Texas - and committed campaign suicide when he said that he supported the smoking of marijuana.)



by 14 posted onby Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

To: apillar

“Well that should be the final nail in his coffin this November...” I don’t think so. He’s running against a guy who forced gay marriage on Massachusetts by executive action. If Romney comes out and denounces Obama for supporting same-sex marriage, a trap can be sprung by going over the timeline and circumstances of what Romney did. Massachusetts law, the stuff actually codified in the books, did not change and still remain the same as they were before Romney forced Town Clerks and Justices of the Peace to start issuing same sex licenses. Well, Romney did change one law, there is no longer a requirement for a clean bill of STD health to get a license in MA.



To: Free ThinkerNY

Coming less than 24 hours after a noteworthy event what Osama's saying,among other things,is: FORNICATE YOU,NORTH CAROLINA KNUCKLEDRAGGERS!



To: Free ThinkerNY

So, our wonderful giant of a president has his core beliefs constantly evolving. How do you ever trust a man like that. What next? And how convenient to say “evolving.” My bet is he has always believed this way but was 100% playing the politic card. In my core beliefs, that’s just chicken poop.



by 17 posted onby NTegraT (Deep in the Heart of Texas)

To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

Just breaking, apparently. Source is ABC News article by Rick Klein (May 9, 2012)



by 18 posted onby nutmeg (Rest in peace, and thank you, Andrew Breitbart)

To: Free ThinkerNY

Gutsy Call ... look at how choreographed this was and then pesky North Carolina has to go and poop in his punch bowl.



by 19 posted onby NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)

To: Free ThinkerNY

As long as the subject isn’t the economy it helps Obama.



by 20 posted onby Brookhaven (Don't mistake my vote for Romney as a vote FOR Romney, it's a vote against Obama.)

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