Obama outright says the Constitution protects same-sex marriage

[Redstreak 6,653]

President Barack Obama seems to have changed his tune on gay marriage, telling The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin he believes same-s-x couples in all 50 states should be allowed to marry under the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

 

Obama first publicly backed gay marriage in May 2012, but noted he thought the issue should be left to the states. Speaking with Toobin for the Oct. 27 issue of The New Yorker, Obama said the best Supreme Court decision since he took office was the recent rejection of gay marriage appeals from five states, a move the president said is "a consequential and powerful signal of the changes that have taken place in society and that the law is having to catch up."

While Obama said the high court "was not quite ready" to "indicate an equal-protection right across the board," he personally believes same-s-x marriage is protected under that clause. From The New Yorker:

 

Obama opposed marriage equality until May of 2012. He told me that he now believes the Constitution requires all states to allow same-s-x marriage, an argument that his Administration has not yet made before the Supreme Court. “Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-s-x marriage in all fifty states,†he said. “But, as you know, courts have always been strategic. There have been times where the stars were aligned and the Court, like a thunderbolt, issues a ruling like Brown v. Board of Education, but that’s pretty rare. And, given the direction of society, for the Court to have allowed the process to play out the way it has may make the shift less controversial and more lasting.

 

“The bulk of my nominees, twenty years ago or even ten years ago, would have been considered very much centrists, well within the mainstream of American jurisprudence, not particularly fire-breathing or ideologically driven,†Obama went on. “So the fact that now Democratic appointees and Republican appointees tend to vote differently on issues really has more to do with the shift in the Republican Party and in the nature of Republican-appointed jurists ... Democrats haven’t moved from where they were.â€

 

The federal government has extended federal benefits to same-s-x married couples in states where gay marriage has been legalized, most recently giving benefits to those in the five states where the gay marriage appeals were rejected.

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/obama-gay-marriage_n_6014116.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

 

[Michael 533]

Bareback Obama.

[xoxo cupcakke 4,781]

Barack Savesthegays Obama II

 

Now, what will he actually do to implement this though?

[Katsuki Bakugo 9,788]

Bareback Obama.

[holy scheisse 22,932]

obamas term will be remembered (socially) for legalizing gay marriage in lots of states and for legalizing marijuana in colorado

 

what a legacy

[TheOriginalOne 11,603]

:golfclap:

Bareback Obama.

:dies:

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If he believes it is protected under the Constitution, can't he issue an executive order?

[Spyro 8,438]

Slaybama

[Morphine Prince 109,671]

Bareback Obama.

 

[Goosey 3,017]

If he believes it is protected under the Constitution, can't he issue an executive order?

No :awkney:

[craig 680]

If he believes it is protected under the Constitution, can't he issue an executive order?

 

No. It's the Supreme Court that officially decides what the constitution means.

[Economy 52,857]

No. It's the Supreme Court that officially decides what the constitution means.

this!

Here in Canada only Ontario and maybe a couple other Provinces had legalized same s-x marriage themselves

In 2005 it was the supreme-court of Canada that ruled that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does infact apply to same-s-x marriage and so it became National as of 2005

It wast the Federal Government, it was the Supreme Court. Must be the same in the US

[RAMROD 117,063]

You know what to do now, Barry.

[socotra 3,357]

No. It's the Supreme Court that officially decides what the constitution means.

 

isn't it the president's prime duty to protect and execute the constitution tho

[Goosey 3,017]

isn't it the president's prime duty to protect and execute the constitution tho

Then why hasn't he issued an executive order striking down restrictive gun laws in states such as California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc?