Wednesday, January 14, 2009

surprise! He's acting like a politician

Obama backed marriage equality in 1996.
Politico’s Ben Smith notes a new report in the Windy City Times showing that President-elect Obama supported marriage equality as recently as 1996. In a questionnaire filled out for a Chicago LGBT newspaper, Obama then wrote, “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” Obama now says that he opposes gay marriage, although he supports civil unions and has come out against a federal ban on gay marriage.

(Think Progress)
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Hopefully, he'll revert to this logical position again.