World-Shaker

"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married."

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Barack Obama in an interview with ABC News (via nprfreshair)

This is off-topic for my blog, but the event of a sitting president coming out in favor of same-sex marriage is historic. That’s not hyperbole. A sitting president has basically said “I think gay couples deserve the same basic rights as the rest of the American public.” This is a big deal, and one that happened on a personal rather than political level.

We’ll see how it’s handled politically over the next few months.