Obama Endorses Gay Marriage

Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage today, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House. “I have hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought that civil unions would be sufficient,” Obama said in an interview with ABC at the White House. He added that, “I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people the word ‘marriage’ was something that invokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth.” Now, he said, “it is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married”/ Associated Press . More here. (AP photo: Speaking to supporters in Oklahoma City today, Mitt Romney repeated his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman)

Question: Does President Obama’s support of gay marriage make you more/less/same likely to vote for him?