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Forty-nine years ago this spring, as he proposed the landmark civil rights reforms of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy became the first president to declare that ending racial discrimination was a moral issue — that "this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free." Now Barack Obama has taken the next step in the unfinished journey toward that ideal: He cut through a cacophony of political advice, the calculus of pre-election caution, to become the first president to endorse marriage equality — and thus to affirm that gay rights are.
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Opposition to discrimination has always been a morally and politically right position for Obama, and that has included gender and sexual preference, not just racial discrimination. There was no doubt then that it was only a matter o... Read Post

Here's a statement from RNC chairman Reince Priebus in response to President Obama publicly endorsing the legalization of same-sex marriage today: "While President Obama has played politics on this issue, the Republican Party and ou... Read Post

The NAACP today voted to formally endorse gay marriage and commit to it as a civil rights issue. It comes about a week and a half after President Barack Obama's earlier public endorsement of gay marriage. But he also said it should ... Read Post