【ワシントン時事】オバマ米大統領は９日、ＡＢＣテレビのインタビューで、同性婚を支持する考えを明らかにした。米大統領が同性婚への支持を表明したのは初めて。（2012/05/10-05:26）
米国大統領支持同性婚姻
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http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html
Obama declares support for gay marriage
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President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. But he said he’s confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters’ comfort with the concept.
“It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” the president continued. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know,? believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”[Related: Join the debate about gay marriage]
“This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that’s what we try to impart to our kids and that’s what motivates me as president and I figure the most consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I’ll be as a as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I’ll be as president.”
Roberts asked the president if First Lady Michelle Obama was involved in this decision. Obama said she was, and he talked specifically about his own faith in responding.
Previously, Obama has moved in the direction of supporting same-sex marriage but has consistently stopped short of outright backing it. Instead, he’s voiced support for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples that provide the rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples, though not defined as “marriage.” At the same time, the president has opposed efforts to ban gay marriage at the state level, saying that he did not favor attempts to strip rights away from gay and lesbian couples.
The president’s position became a flashpoint this week, when Vice President Joe Biden pronounced himself “absolutely comfortable” with allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Obama aides insisted there was no daylight between the positions held by the president and his vice president when it comes to legal rights, but as other prominent Democrats also weighed in in favor of gay marriage, the disconnect became difficult for the White House to explain away.
The announcement completes a turnabout for the president, who has opposed gay marriage throughout his career in national politics. In 1996, as a state Senate candidate, he indicated support for gay marriage in a questionnaire, but Obama aides later disavowed it and said it did not reflect the candidate’s position.
In 2004, as a candidate for the US Senate, he cited his own religion in framing his views: “I'm a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”
He maintained that position through his 2008 presidential campaign, and through his term as president, until today.
As president in 2010, Obama told ABC’s Jake Tapper that his feelings about gay marriage were “constantly evolving. I struggle with this.” A year later, the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “I’m still working on it.”
“I probably won't make news right now, George,” Obama said in October 2011. “But I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.”
Obama’s decision has political connotations for the fall.
The issue divides elements of the Democratic base, with liberals and gay-rights groups eager to see the president go farther, but with gay marriage far less popular among African-American voters.
Just yesterday, in North Carolina, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage. President Obama carried North Carolina in 2008, and its status as a 2012 battleground was guaranteed by Democrats’ decision to hold their convention in Charlotte this summer.
Obama’s likely Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, opposes gay marriage, and fought his state’s highest court when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, when Romney was governor. Romney said on the campaign trail Monday that he continues to oppose gay marriage.
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In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.
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オバマ氏が同性婚容認 保守派の反発確実
オバマ米大統領は９日、ＡＢＣテレビとのインタビューで「同性愛のカップルが結婚できるよう支持することが、私にとって重要だ」と述べ、同性婚を容認する考えを示した。ロイター通信によると、同性婚支持を公に表明した米大統領は初めて。
同性婚に反対する保守派から強い反発が出ることは確実。再選を目指す大統領選を１１月に控え、争点の１つに浮上しそうだ。共和党の大統領候補となるロムニー前マサチューセッツ州知事は同日、記者団に「結婚とは男女間の関係というのが私の考えだ」と話し、オバマ氏の姿勢を批判した。
オバマ氏は昨年７月、同性愛者と公言して軍務に就くことを禁じた規定を撤廃し、同性愛者の全面的な受け人れを正式に始めると発表。しかしインタビューでは、規定が撤廃されても「（同性愛者は）依然として結婚することができず抑圧されている」と指摘した。
一方で、国内で同性婚を合法化する州と禁止する州が分かれている現状から、オバマ氏は同性婚容認は「私個人としての結論」と述べ、各州が独自に規定できるとの考えを示した。
バイデン副大統領が最近、同性婚容認を明言したため、オバマ氏の発言に関心が集まっていた。（共同）
［2012年5月10日8時52分］http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/f-gn-tp1-20120510-948463.html
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オバマ米大統領が同性婚支持を表明、選挙の主要な争点に
2012年05月10日（木）08時07分
５月９日、オバマ米大統領がＡＢＣテレビのインタビューで、「同性カップルの結婚は認められるべきだと思う」と述べ、同性婚を支持する考えを表明した。８日撮影（２０１２年 ロイター/Yuri Gripas）
［ワシントン ９日 ロイター］ オバマ米大統領は９日、ＡＢＣテレビのインタビューで、「同性カップルの結婚は認められるべきだと思う」と述べ、同性婚を支持する考えを表明した。
米大統領が同性婚支持を公の場で明らかにしたのは初めて。オバマ大統領が所属する民主党や同性愛者の権利を擁護する団体などからは、米国の公民権の指標が示されたなどとして、大統領のコメントに称賛の声が上がった。
一方、１１月に行われる大統領選のライバル候補、ロムニー氏が所属する共和党の活動家や保守派は、オバマ大統領の発言を批判するとともに、対立を生む問題に対して政治的リスクを負ったと評した。
保守的なキリスト教団体の代表を務めるトニー?パーキンス氏は「今回の発表で同性婚が大統領選の主要な争点の一つになることがはっきりした。大統領はロムニー氏との違いを鮮明にした」と述べた。
政治アナリストらは、オバマ大統領は世論調査で同性婚支持者がわずかながらも多数派となっていることを踏まえ、リスクを計算した上で支持を表明したと分析している。
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オバマ大統領、同性婚を支持＝選挙戦の争点、保守派の反発必至
【ワシントン時事】オバマ米大統領は９日、ＡＢＣテレビのインタビューで、「同性カップルの結婚を可能にすべきだ」と述べ、同性婚を支持する考えを初めて明確に表明した。米大統領が同性婚を支持したのは初めて。
同性婚は１１月の大統領選の主要争点の一つで、米社会で賛否が大きく分かれる。再選を目指すオバマ大統領にとって、リベラル派の支持獲得が見込める一方、保守派の強い反発を受けるのは必至だ。
大統領はこれまで、同性婚に理解を示しながらも支持を明言していなかった。この日は「一歩踏み込んで、同性カップルの結婚を可能にすべきだと考えていると断言することが重要との結論に達した」と述べた。（2012/05/10-08:04） - ↑↓
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http://www.cnn.co.jp/usa/30006523.html
オバマ米大統領、同性婚支持を表明 現職米大統領で初
2012.05.10 Thu posted at: 09:43 JST
（ＣＮＮ） オバマ米大統領は９日に放映されたＡＢＣテレビのインタビューで、同性婚を支持すると表明した。現職の米大統領が同性婚支持を表明したのは初めて。米国の国論を二分する問題をめぐり、大統領選で共和党の指名が確実になっているミット?ロムニー前マサチューセッツ州知事と真っ向から対立することになる。
オバマ大統領はインタビューの中で、「私は同性婚のカップルも結婚できるようにすべきだと考えている。この考えをあえて表明することは、個人的に重要だとの結論に至った」と語った。
大統領はかつて同性婚に反対しており、伝統や宗教を重んじる立場への配慮から、「同性婚には慎重だった」と説明。しかし結婚の誓いを交わす同性カップルなどを目の当たりにして、考えが変わったとしている。
これに先立ちバイデン副大統領も６日のＮＢＣの番組で同性婚を支持する考えを表明。一方、ロムニー氏はＣＮＮ系列局の取材に対して９日、同性婚反対の立場を改めて表明している。
調査機関ギャラップが８日に発表した世論調査では、同性婚を法律で認めるべきだとの回答が５０％、認めるべきではないとする回答が４８％と賛否が分かれていた。
この問題をめぐっては、８日に行われたノースカロライナ州の住民投票で、同性婚を禁止する内容の州憲法が承認されている。これについてオバマ大統領は、同性愛者に対する差別に当たるとして「失望」を表明したという。
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オバマ大統領、同性婚支持を表明
アメリカ大統領選へ向け、同性愛者による結婚の是非に注目が集まる中、これまで、あいまいな立場をとってきたオバマ大統領が９日、同性婚を支持する考えを初めて明らかにしました。
「同性婚を支持することが、自分にとっても重要だとの結論に至った」（アメリカ オバマ大統領）
アメリカでは、首都ワシントンと７つの州が同性婚を認める一方、保守色の強い南部ノースカロライナ州が８日、その禁止を決定したことから、オバマ大統領の発言が注目されていました。
これまで、同性婚への立場をあいまいにしてきたオバマ大統領ですが、足元の民主党リベラル派などから大統領に反発する声が高まり、支持の立場を鮮明にしたものです。
共和党のロムニー候補は同性婚に反対していて、今回の発言が大統領選のカギを握る州の一つ、ノースカロライナの選挙戦に与える影響に関心が集まっています。（10日08:39）http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye5025668.html - ↑↓
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You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.
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能理解不少华裔美人私下支持同性恋外表反对同性婚为得是下一代
但OBAMA为了下一代从外表反对同性婚改变成支持同性婚
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Gay marriage, Obama and the fierce urgency of now: Why did he do it this week?
?Walter Shapiro's Yahoo! News column examines what we know about the character and personalities of the 2012 candidates. Shapiro, who is covering his ninth presidential campaign, is also a special correspondent for the New Republic.Even now, during the closing months of his first term, Barack Obama remains a curiously elusive political leader. That is why the abrupt conclusion to his evolution on gay marriage, announced Wednesday in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, is one of the most fascinating moments in his presidency. Glib theories about Obama’s often-cautious approach to the presidency, especially in an election year, have to be revamped in light of his sudden endorsement of gay marriage.
There is a temptation to view the turnabout solely in electoral terms. Obama himself said that the politics of same-sex marriage “may hurt me.” But perhaps the president made the calculation that he was willing to risk the loss of a fraction of socially conservative swing voters in states like Ohio in order to guarantee the enthusiasm of his top fundraisers. (A Washington Post analysis found that almost 20 percent of Obama’s bundlers have publicly revealed that they are gay). Maybe there is even private Obama polling indicating that November turnout among voters in the millennial generation is apt to be higher if the president took a firm position on gay marriage.
Such political narrowcasting misses an essential truth about Obama: his pride and his fear of embarrassment. Joe Biden, by offering an emotional response to the gay-marriage question Sunday on “Meet the Press,” left Obama looking like the Cowardly Lion unable to find his heart until after the election. For Obama to keep mulling the issue as if he were taking a private course in Talmudic Studies would make the president seem faintly ridiculous.Even if the gay-marriage issue was seen as a dangerous distraction by Obama’s reelection campaign, all the president’s handlers could not wish it away. Whether it was the awkward necessity of writing evasive language for the gay marriage plank in the Democratic platform or seeing his campaign surrogates constantly grilled on the question, Obama undoubtedly knew that his room for maneuver was constrained. So the president, after 72 hours of reflection, did the right thing.
Both as an African American and as the nation’s first president who grew up after the climactic days of the civil-rights movement, Obama undoubtedly has wondered how he would have reacted if he had found himself on the frontlines of that transcendent moral issue. Obviously, no one is opposing gay marriages with dogs, fire hoses and billy clubs. But this issue is the closest proxy that 21st-century America has to offer to the which-side-are-you-on struggles of the 1960s. In moral terms, it is quite possible that Obama could not personally endure further equivocation.
In making his decision to walk down the aisle with gay marriage, Obama underscored his awareness that poll-tested politics can only carry you so far in the Oval Office, even in an election year. During Saturday’s campaign kick-off rally in Columbus, Ohio, Michelle Obama told the crowd that the problems that reach the president’s desk “are the ones with no clear solutions--the judgment calls where the stakes are so high and there is no margin for error.” The first lady may have been alluding to the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, but the same principle could be extended to the president’s decision about his public support for gay marriage.In November 2003, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled that gay marriage was legal based on the state constitution. The Massachusetts governor at the time--who by a weird twist of fate was Mitt Romney--vehemently opposed the decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s struggle to defeat George W. Bush in the 2004 election was complicated by the liberal high court decision in his home state, even though he distanced himself from the ruling.
During the 2004 campaign, it would have seemed ludicrous and embarrassingly naive to imagine that a future president--especially one facing a difficult reelection campaign--would endorse gay marriage. Maybe in 2028, but certainly not in 2012. But such is the engine of social change, slowly chugging up the hill with I-think-I-can determination and then dramatically accelerating once it is over the crest. With an unequivocal statement by Obama on Wednesday, gay marriage suddenly became codified as--at minimum--a bedrock principle of the Democratic Party.
When political handicappers rattle off the hard-to-predict variables that will shape the election and the challenges of the presidency in 2013, they invariably point to the economy and global threats such as the Iranian nuclear program. But such armchair attempts at prophecy are often too cautious and the horizon too limited. Sometimes, it is as simple as a president confronted with a moral choice--and his awareness that the time for temporizing and hand wringing is over.http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/obama-sex-marriage-legal-16312940?tab=9482931§ion=4765066
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A majority of Americans — 54% — say same-sex marriages should be legally recognized, while 42% are opposed, according to a CNN/ORC International Survey released Wednesday.
The poll showed a sharp partisan divide on the issue, with seven in 10 Democrats as well as six in 10 independent voters saying same-sex marriages should be legal, and 72% of Republicans opposed.
President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage in an ABC News interview in early May, but Mitt Romney says he does not support gay marriage or civil unions.
The poll results come the day after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco declined to revisit its earlier decision that ruled California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional and said gay and lesbian couples could marry.
The poll also found that the number of Americans who say they know somebody who is gay has jumped from 49% in 2010 to 60% now.
The CNN poll was conducted by ORC International from May 29-31, with 1,009 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, with a sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.
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