Straight from the horse’s Tumblr:
Breaking: Obama endorses marriage equality!
President Barack Obama said in an interview with ABC that “it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
With his Wednesday announcement, the president reversed his longstanding position on the issue. It came on the heels of his own vice president and education secretary saying they were in favor of gay marriage.
A great day in our fight for civil rights-President Obama adds his support for marriage #equality. #BeautifulDay—
Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) May 09, 2012
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And, naturally. Of course from Fox “News”!
via: reallyfoxnews
Here’s what Fox News would have also been against (and many in the South still are!):
via: think-progress
Note: An important point from Adam Serwer: President Obama endorsed marriage federalism:
Obama has adopted the sameposition that Vice President Dick Cheney did in 2004, when Cheney said he believed in marriage equality but that the states should be allowed to decide by a show of hands, as North Carolina did Tuesday, whether gays and lesbians have the same rights as everyone else. Cheney served in an administration that was extremely hostile to gay rights. With the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the administration’s refusal to defend in court the federal ban on same-sex marriage, and Wednesday’s endorsement of same-sex marriage federalism, Obama is the most pro-LGBT rights president in US history.
