GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It’s taken two years of allowing his position to “evolve” but US President Barack Obama came out with it Wednesday evening 9 May: he now supports same sex marriages, he told ABC news, saying that he’s always believe “gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly, and equally”. Vice-president Joe Biden said last week that he is in favour of same sex marriages, putting pressure on Obama to re-state his own position. A Gallup poll published Tuesday in the US says that public opinion is divided nearly equally on the issue, 50 percent for and 48 percent against, reports Bloomberg.
Part of the debate in the US is over whether the states have the right to decide, as Obama suggested, or if the Supreme Court has ruled otherwise.
