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President Barack Obama endorsing same sex marriage. As described by several
aides, that quick decision and his subsequent announcement in a hastily
scheduled network television interview were thrust on the white house by 48 hours
of frenzied. Advisers say now that Mr. Obama had intended since early this year
to define his position sometime before Democrats nominate him for re-election
in September. But many of the president’s allies believed he would not do so, trusting
instead in his strong support from gay voters for having ended a ban on openly
gay people in the military and disavowing a federal law defining marriage as
between a man and a woman.
Also, in the article it
stated that on Wednesday afternoon Mr. Obama sat down in the white house with
ABC’s Robin Roberts and made news, saying after nearly two years of saying that
his views in same sex marriage were “evolving.” And he also stated “ at a
certain point, I’ve just concluded that foe me personally it is important for
me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get
married and have equal rights.
*http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/politics/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html
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