Obama stance on gay marriage

Obama was in favor of same-sex marriage before he was against it — and before he was for it again. In , as he ran for Illinois state Senate, Chicago’s Outlines gay newspaper asked. President Obama will sit down with "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts today at the White House for a wide-ranging interview, his first since Vice President Joe Biden publicly voiced his support for same-sex marriage and North Carolina voters imposed a new ban on all same-sex unions.

President Obama called the Supreme Court's decision affirming the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry a "victory for America" that had "made our union a little more perfect.". Since stepping on to the national stage in when he ran for the Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama has shifted his views on whether same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry.

“My. Obama has carefully staked out his position on same-sex marriage throughout his political career.

During his Illinois state Senate race, he replied to a questionnaire from a gay newspaper in Chicago: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”. But as of last summer Obama was still disappointing his gay and lesbian supporters by repeating his view that marriage was an issue for each state to decide.

But I also agree with most Americans, including Vice President Cheney and over 2, religious leaders of all different beliefs, that decisions about marriage should be left to the states as they always have been. President Obama's support of gay marriage has come a long way. NBC Politics. NBC News Logo.

Obama executive order same-sex marriage

Verrilli wrote that DOMA "denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples. He said, "I personally believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. He had long supported civil unions. Hollingsworth v. Latest Stories U. When he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in and , Obama spoke at a forum sponsored by the gay advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign.

In August , as Obama battled Republican Alan Keyes in the Senate race, his rival accused him of equivocating on the issue. But his endorsement influenced a cascade of politicians to switch positions on the issue. Skip to Content. But at the time, the filing deadline was approaching in another case before the Supreme Court that asked a much broader constitutional question.

By the time of his inaugural address the president was speaking in sweeping terms. And I think that principle will win out. In a debate the following month with Keyes, Obama said, "I'm a Christian, and so although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman," Obama said.

Stream on. And I think that's what we try to impart to our kids and that's what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I'll be as a as a dad and a husband and, hopefully, the better I'll be as president. By Wednesday his views had evolved to the position that gay and lesbian rights advocates had urged upon him since On February 28, Verrilli filed a brief and opponents of Prop 8 were delighted.

Follow NBC News. The U. These voices came disproportionately from the Baptist tradition. In a historic move, on May 9, President Barack Obama announced his support for full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Even though 30 states still had language defining marriage as between a man and a woman in their constitutions, by November three more states would authorize gay marriage.

Jul 14, AM. I might really focus on getting rights that are concrete and that are going to be important and politically are achievable.