The San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Egelko takes President Obama to the woodshed for his gay marriage flip flop. Supporters of California's Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriages, cite Obama's declared opposition to such unions as an arguing point.However...while running for the Illinois State Senate for in 1996, Obama wrote, "I favor legalizing same-sex marriage, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages." By 2004, when he was running for the US Senate, he was no longer a supporter, but "primarily just as a strategic issue." Obama then went on to state.
"I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation," and he mentioned the African American community to bolster his stand.
By 2008, Obama's same-sex marriage stand had clearly changed, "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. "Now, for me as a Christian ... it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix." Note that he is falling back on his own faith this time. But the church Obama had been a member of until the spring of 2008, the Afro-centric Trinity United Church of Christ, declared that it supported gay marriage in 2005.
Oh, the audacity.
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