If marriage is a civil right, how can our President leave it to the individual states?

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6. that's true, but saying that it should be enforced through the courts

would have lost him the election- period.

look, you have to see this as a tipping point. Already in the Senate, they're moving on ENDA and DOMA. Since the President announced his support for marriage equality, Senator Reid and Senator Reed have announced their support.

The President, if re-elected will almost surely have the opportunity to appoint one or more Justice to the SC- and maybe one who will tip the balance on the court. He will certainly have the opportunity to name scores to the Federal Bench.

The old axiom, that politics is the art of the possible holds true here, just as it did for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 when he supported the stop of the spread of slavery but not outright abolition.



And no, the standard republican position on abortion is that it should be outlawed on the federal level.