Hi Terry, I heard Nancy Pelosi pressing the issue that Pres. Obama should announce his support for Gay Marriage. We know that Pres. Obama really does support gay marriage as he does not support DOMA. However, it comes down to waiting for a re-election or doing it now. Personally, I do not want to risk the advances that the president has made and rather wait for 2012 before this is fought. And, you are correct, the house and senate would have to be a democratic majority and tied int he same bill, i would expect we would have to give republicans something big, such as the awful Keystone Pipeline that Pres. Obama has denied.
I would expect that a pro-gay marriage response might help to get out the gay volunteers. I find it disgusting that the LGBT community do not appreciate that Pres. Obama has done more for the LGBT community than all US presidents combined. And, i personally, do not want 1 item endangered as it can not possibly be encounted untill the president is re-elected, with the circumstances as discussed. If we had voted in force and volunteered, it would have been possible in 2010 through now. But, this is not the case and in theory, gay marriage was always thought to be taken up in a 2nd Obama term.
Here is Dan Savage's response to Pres. Obama's possble open acceptance to gay marriage:
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While national polls show a slim majority of Americans now support marriage equality, supporters of marriage equality aren't evenly distributed throughout all 50 states. They're over-represented in populous blue states that Obama is going to carry, under-represented in purple states that he needs to carry, and thin in the ground in red states that he has no hope of carrying. Electoral College Goddam. And maybe I'm a pessimist… but… I don't think Obama endorsing marriage equality would convince any Republicans who support marriage equality (all six of them) to vote for him, I don't think it by itself would convince independents to vote for him, and I think it would convince some conservative Democrats to vote against him.
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> Obama To Endorse Gay Marriage In SOTU? White House Won't Rule Out Possibility By Carlos Santoscoy / January 21, 2012 / On Top Magazine
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> >Is President Barack Obama preparing to endorse gay marriage during Tuesday's State of the Union address? The White House will not rule out the possibility.
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> >Obama has said he supports civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. But in 2010 he opened the door to marriage, saying he was "evolving" on the issue. Since then, each time the president attends a gay fundraiser or event, speculation that he'll move on the issue resurfaces.
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> >When CNN's Dan Lothian asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about Obama's status on the issue, Carney said he doesn't "have an update," then reminded reporters of the president's record on gay rights.
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> >"I think it is important as part of my answer here to just remind you about the president's record on these issue," Carney said on Friday. "Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' and on marriage in particular, having the federal government stand down from, or his administration stand down from defending DOMA, believing that it's unconstitutional and working to have it repealed."
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