Poll: Should Gay Marriage Be Legal?
President Barack Obama said that he supported gay marriage this week, while Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Gay marriage came to the forefront of the 2012 presidential campaign this week. President Barack Obama said on ABC's Good Morning America that he personally supported gay marriage. "You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently," Obama said in the interview with ABC. Obama's support for gay marriage came one day after North Carolina passed an amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, the Huffington Post Reported. Republican …
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Bob Blinick
4:05 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2012
But marriage is steeped in both legal issues and intensely personal ones. I cannot name them, but married people have both rights and obligations with regard to medical decisions, visitation and access, social security/pension, property rights, and perhaps a thousand more. Therefore, it does affect the legal standing of each as to whether the couple is married. Second, marriage is a declaration … more ›