ABC News to Interview Obama as Gay Marriage Questions Persist

[William769]

President Obama is likely to be pressed on his gay marriage stance in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday afternoon, this after Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s pro-marriage equality comments in recent days.

NYT’s Caucus Blog reports:

President Obama, who is under mounting pressure to clarify his thinking on same-sex marriage after top aides publicly embraced it in recent days, will sit down for an interview with ABC News on Wednesday during which he is likely to be questioned about his “evolving” views on the issue, according to people familiar with the matter.

The interview, to be conducted by Robin Roberts, an anchor on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and was secured in the wake of a declaration by Mr. Obama’s vice president, Joseph R. Biden, on Sunday that he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriages.

http://www.advocate.com/news/2012/05/09/abc-interview-obama-gay-marriage-questions-persist

President Obama please do whats right. Believe it or not your evolving process could be taken to be in violation of TOS on DU which puts all Democratic members Gay and Straight on DU in a perilous position. We are all Democtats here and you are the party's leader and when it comes to equality there is NO middle ground so "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Robin Roberts will interview him. Hmmm.

That's a good sign; I think he might make a statement similar to Biden's. I'm crossing my fingers.

[stevenleser]

2. I really think the only thing left to fear here is fear itself.

I dont have access to the various internal polls the White House and campaign have, but with more Americans now supporting gay marriage equality than are against, I cannot believe there are any polls showing coming out in support would make a negative impact. I am open to being wrong, but I would have to see it to believe it.

I just dont think there is an downside anymore, and there is a potential huge upside in character and being on the side of right alone.

[monmouth]

3. In the last few years more gay people have been coming out of the closet, this being such a great

thing. People are now realizing members of their own families, co-workers, etc. belong to the gay community and the world did not end. People's thinking has evolved and are realizing this is a civil rights matter as well as being able to marry the one you love. My gay uncle was forced, literally because of his high ranking government job, to marry a woman. She was a member of the LGBT community, also working for the government. In order to keep their jobs this was their only recourse. He's gone now but I so wish he were here today to see the strides made. This does matter..

[Zorra]

4. How about this:

"Thank you, Robin, for your kind introduction.

I have something to say to you all here, words that should not ever have been necessary for a Commander-in-Chief of the United States to speak. Unfortunately, circumstances have compelled me to come before you, the people of this nation, in the name of human decency, justice, and equality.

Before I begin, I would like to reiterate a statement made by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a statement I hold dear to my heart, and I say it here, as it were my own:

"I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

"With this idea in my heart and mind, I, Barack Obama, in accordance with my duty as President of the United States of America, on this ninth day of May, in the year of 2012, proclaim that all persons whose equal human rights are not recognized within any State or designated part of a State, shall be then, thenceforward, be legally entitled, in the name of human decency, and protected by dictates and force of law, allowed to employ and enjoy their fully deserved human rights; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, in any efforts they may make in the exercise of their actual freedom.

Now, therefore I, Barack Obama, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons whose Constitutional rights and protections have been previously denied them in and by any state, are now entitled to full equal rights, and any abridgment of such rights by any state, whether or not said state has legislated to deny any of its citizens their justly deserved equal rights, is committing a crime against the People of the United States of America, in the entirety of that body.

I hereby declare that any and all state enacted legislation that now, or in the future, restricts or may restrict the equal rights of any citizen and or group of citizens solely based on their sexual or gender orientation, is now and forever moot, and hereby illegal, under auspices of the Constitution of the United States.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, even upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to an Executive Presidential Order, declaring that every single citizen of the United States shall forthwith enjoy the same unequivocal human rights that any and all United States citizens are legally entitled to, under the protection of the Federal Government as authorized by the Constitution of the United States.

Thank you all for your kind attention. I hope you all have a wonderful day. I plan to."

(Apologies for this plagiarism of your wonderful Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln)