The day after voters in North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, President Obama told ABC News on Wednesday that he now supports gay marriage.
The president — who still supports letting states decide the issue on their own — said his personal views had gone through an "evolution" based on conversations with family and friends and the views of his own daughters.
"They are much more comfortable with it," the president told Robin Roberts in an interview to be shown on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer."
”You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples," Obama said in the interview. "There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”
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"Marriage" is naturally defined and understood for millennia, around the world in pretty much all cultures, as the "union of a man and a woman." There is nothing discriminatory about that. And citizens of NC, now the 30th state to do so, have simply affirmed that foundational, time-honored definition of society's--and a nation's--most critically important institution. That is what most Americans recognize, and how they vote, when given the opportunity. We in CT were denied that opportunity, and don't even have the legal right under our state Constitution to have Voter Referendums/Initiatives as they do in most states. Again, voters in North Carolina did not vote to "ban gay marriage." They voted to affirm and protect society's most foundational institution from being redefined by activists using the courts.
Well MAC, I hate to break it to you. But scapegoating gays as a "threat" to traditional marriage is pathetic. America has the highest divorce rate of any nation (4.5 per 1,000 people). Celebrities and their fly-by-night marriages certainly epitomize the sanctity of marriage. Drive-thru wedding chapels are absolutely reflective of the careful consideration behind a couple's commitment to marriage. Marriage is not about gender, or reproduction, or religion. From a governmental prospective, it is about social equity. Two loving, consenting adults have the right to have their fidelity recognized. To disallow marriage equality by reason of fear, hatred, and malicious lies is sickening. If you are so concerned about marriage as the most foundational institution, here's some friendly advice. Try to contain your homophobia, and focus on real and present threats to marriage: poverty, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness. Because when I do decide to get married, I will fill out the paperwork, hold a ceremony, and under Connecticut law, I will be married. A man and a man. And the world will continue to be revolve, life will go on, and correct me if I'm wrong, but your life will be unaffected. Whatever problems you may have, they are not our's, but yours.
That's a very presumptuous and dangerous statement Mrs. Jett. Also, when were we allowed to personally attack people on this forum? Especially by a paid blogger here... Let me ask you this Miss Jett; Do you support adults marrying children? Because that is quite normal and accepted in many cultures and countries - why do we discriminate against that here?