24 hours earlier, North Carolina had voted 61%-39% against same-sex marriage and enforcing a constitutional ban on gay weddings, which made it all the more important that Obama made his position clear.
In the last few days, Joe Biden, the otherwise invisible Vice President had said he was in favour of same-sex marriage but pointed out that it was his personal opinion and not necessarily shared by the President. At that point the Obama repeated his position on the subject as "evolving" - which has been his official position since 2010.
I dread what the backlash will be. The right-wing press has already started to attack Obama. Fox News said his decision was anti-marriage.
The problem is that the churches have too much influence on American society - brainwashing millions with hatred and bigotry, but Obama is right. It is time to embrace the gay community and give them equality. Not allowing gay marriage is an untenable position in 2012.
I'm not an Obama fan but, given a choice of him or Romney, an right wing extremist, science denier and religious bigot, I hope that the President hasn't destroyed his re-election. Maybe remaining neutral until he was safely back in the White House would have been more sensible?
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