Although Obama has always opposed the Defense of Marriage Act, and although he is pro-civil union, he has been anti-gay marriage. This has been a major problem I've had with the Obama Administration. However, as of late, with the Administration declaring DOMA unconstitutional and working to end Don't Ask Don't Tell, I've partly forgotten that Obama campaigned with an anti-gay marriage platform. This is, however, in direct contradiction of his 1996 statement of his "unequivocal" support of gay marriage.
Do recent actions reveal otherwise? Watch this video and tell me what you think. Do you think Obama will come out in favor of gay marriage?
According to Dallasvoice.com, this video:
...may be the closest President Barack Obama has come to publicly admitting that he supports marriage equality — at least since he actually said it on a candidate survey in 1996. In the video below from a DNC fundraiser Monday night in San Francisco, Obama says during his speech that, “Our work is not finished.” Then someone in the crowd yells, “Gay marriage.” Obama pauses, then appears to respond by repeating, “Our work is not finished,” as if to indicate that the audience member had just illustrated his point.
I'm ready for a President who believes in complete marriage equality! How about you?
He is definitely responding to the audience member. And with his opposition to the DOMA, I think he is starting to *come out* as a supporter of gay marriage. He is a politician, so he plays the game, so it didn't surprise me when he "flip-flopped" on the gay marriage issue after the candidate survey.
ReplyDeleteI think so too. I think it's time for him to come out, yes?
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