Liberal bloggers pressed President Obama on his opposition to gay marriage in a private White House meeting Wednesday, but the president refused to budge from his conviction that the government should not sanction marriages between same-sex couples.
Joe Sudbay, a Washington-based writer and deputy editor for AMERICAblog, asked Obama for a clear answer on where he stood on gay marriage, and was told that while his views could “evolve,” Obama said he still thinks gays should not be granted marriage rights.
“I am a strong supporter of civil unions,” Obama said, according to the White House transcript. “I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.” Perhaps in an attempt not to write him off as a firm opponent to gay marriage, Obama added that “attitudes evolve, including mine.”
Obama shares this view with many Republicans, and even falls to the right of a number of conservatives who now say they support gay marriage.
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