Obama ‘I Think Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married’

2012-05-10 116

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President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his

longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice

president.

In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as

an “evolution” that led him to this decision, based on conversations with his staff members,

openly gay and lesbian service members, and his wife and daughters.

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and

family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly

committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together;

when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting

on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is gone, because

they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, 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,” Obama told Roberts in an interview to appear on ABC’s

“Good Morning America” Thursday.

Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News With Diane Sawyer” and

“Nightline.”

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