President Obama's support for same-sex marriage is making headlines but not news. That's probably because he was in favor of same-sex marriage
before he was against it and now in favor of it again. Campaigning in
1996 for state senate in Illinois, Obama said in a typed statement, "I
favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit
such marriages." Running for statewide and then national office
apparently changed his perspective, at least temporarily.
But there's another reason much of the country has shrugged off
no-news headlines about the culmination of President Obama's
"evolution": 50 percent of Americans now agree with him.
In the last 16 years, support for same-sex marriage has nearly doubled.
Gallup shows an increase in support from just 27 percent in 1996 to a
high of 53 percent in 2011 and now 50 percent in 2012. Since 1996,
Christians have debated homosexuality almost non-stop, and several
Protestant denominations have reached the same conclusion as Obama. He told ABC's Robin Roberts today:
In the end the values that I care most deeply about, and [Michelle Obama] cares most deeply about, is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians, and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it's also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. Continue at Collin Hansen
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