First it was Biden the other day and now Obama comes out in favor of gay marriage rather than just having views that are "evolving"
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WASHINGTON ? President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of ?evolving? on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
?At a certain point, I?ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,? Mr. Obama told ABC News in an interview that came after the president faced mounting pressure to clarify his position.
In an election that is all but certain to turn on the slowly recovering economy and its persistently high jobless rate, Mr. Obama?s stand nonetheless injects a volatile social issue into the campaign debate and puts him at even sharper odds with his presumptive Republican rival, Mitt Romney, who opposes same-sex marriage and favors an amendment to the United States Constitution to forbid it.
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Will be interesting to see what it does to this election, if anything.