Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage  —  Updated President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.  “At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview …

BREAKING: Obama Embraces Marriage Equality  —  President Obama has come out in support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people in an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts this afternoon: … Watch it:  —  His endorsement comes less than a week after Vice President Joe Biden embraced …

Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans  —  (Washington, DC) - Log Cabin Republicans respond to President Barack Obama's latest evolution on the freedom to marry.  —  “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One …

I Am Gobsmacked  —  Well, I guess I'm cynical.  I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for President Obama NOT to state that he favors equal marriage.  My heart is turning such cartwheels that I am not sure I can write anything cogent.  —  Here's what I was all ready to say before the announcement:

President Obama's calculated gamble on gay marriage  —  President Obama's decision to express support for gay marriage in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts is a decision that comes with real political risk.  —  President Obama declares his support for gay marriage in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News.

Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage  —  Conservative religious leaders predicted President Obama's support of gay marriage will hurt him this election — but one fretted that the tide has turned against them long-term on the issue, and that Obama's statement could further erode their position long-term.

An Obama Gay Marriage Timeline  —  President Obama may come out in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage today in an interview with the ABC News.  It's been a long and winding road there.  —  Obama in 1996: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.

Good for Obama, bad for gay marriage  —  BARACK OBAMA took cubic miles of guff for spending the last few years insisting his position on gay marriage was “evolving”.  Now he's finally come out and said what everybody knew he was eventually going to say: he thinks gay people should be allowed to marry the partner of their choice.