president bomber did announce today let's listen to us what the president
said at a_b_c_ news in regards to his position on gay marriages filled with
a_b_c_'s robin roberts
but it's not as i said that that was one of us
i've always been adamant
gay and lesbian
american should be treated fairly
adhesion
at a certain point i've just concluded that
for me personally
it is important for me to go ahead and perform
uh... i think same-sex couples should be able to get there
well i mean action when you see that it's it's very emotions they removed
shows the first time i saw that i thought that i find it very moving out
of hand any minute seriously yeah i had said it was tore a hole on
an amount of the story going out of the president it because i did
sort of hold the presidency in the city and and and now hear him speaking about
it and and i know that it's progress and i know that if i had
agape family member that it would be you know it wouldn't start make change my
opinion of the president uh... if i thought
otherwise in sonya
depending what he did with you
well you know i mean i i liked the reflective quality abit
i like the fact that it didn't feel like a bully pulpit you know the hinges sort
of get us all riled up
on but at the same time though the qualifier personally
felt a need to be old of hedge a little bit you know come on friday and saturday
january i'm just saying to me look at whether he he speaks
in great coddling demand about what's fair and right for all americans and
tax and we shall do our fair share in other words
his role as leader in his role as individual are merged in every other
contacts and asl i thought there was a little separation just unit sightseeing
me larry personal and that's a personal moment and he's the press
it's the person who was running for president i don't know i just uh...
men's gloves unhappy give this format no no i'm not i'm out of town a lot of all
that i'm not attacking him on it i'm just noticing that
you know i felt that there is still a little bit of separation about what i
think it's a historic moment i think it's long overdue
and i think that
frankly to say that you want to treat all americans fairy equally
requires that they have access to institutions that the government
recognizes i mean if marriage which simply uh...
religious institution which emulate ultimately is not
um... then that's a different matter frankly don't care what people do inside
their churches that's their business uh... or mosques or temples
if you're going to be talking about
access to public resources access to rights and privileges that are conferred
through this institution
then you it seems to me you have no choice black too
up stand for the fair and equal treatment in every possible
uh... yeah i don't uh... i i i don't disagree i want to show you don't want
to tell you what uh... some of these people
are saying about it uh... this is just some unease of the
uh... of that human rights campaign i'm reading this awful thing an email i just
moments ago dear michael he wrote me and you know it's not as uh... from that did
it as well as the president on the history but all the same the gay and
lesbian americans believe deserve pulled out of quality
uh... fresno obama's time an opposition on that our nation to move beyond it's
shameful history of discrimination and just as i hope you'll join me in sending
president obama it heartfelt thank you note right now thanks to president
obama's leadership millions of young americans have seen their futures will
not be limited by what makes them different and i think you know that is a
poignant double yes moment in any presidency when you expect
uh... people who don't have a voice mail system and i think it's extremely
important i think we should send a thank you know and i think we should also
thank all the activists have been working so hard to make or ask you to
put themselves on the line
but i also think we need to do some re-education
i think what we need to help people who might have discomfort who might be
operating inside of
religious contexts who are otherwise progressive but on this issue may not be
to encourage them to see this or at least air these discussions in a more
progressive way and i think that you know what you're talking about black and
hispanic communities in particular
i think a i think some public conversation needs to happen and i think
leadership not just black leadership all leadership should speak to black and
hispanic constituencies
to really
not allow this to become a wedge issue
and that's going to take some serious honest talking
it's true that it was it is
less of a wedge issue than it was before both states will put it on the ballots
before just a few voters away now when you see the country fifty fifty
it doesn't do that automatically