9th May 2012, 6:48 PM
Hurray for Obama! Meaningless gesture, of course, as so many states still seem to be keen on curtailing the rights of their citizens at least as far as gay marriage is concerned. I mean it's not as if he would have said it a day earlier North Carolina wouldn't have voted to amend their constitution to fully entrench marriage being between a man and a woman even though gay marriage was already illegal in that state to begin with. Daaaaamn, just driving the nails in. I heard one pundit say that Obama's statement was the biggest civil rights declaration in America in half a century, but it's got no teeth as long as individual states are still permitted to refuse civil rights to their own citizens in the manner carried out by North Carolina yesterday and in other places.