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To: LindyBill who wrote (486154)	5/9/2012 2:09:02 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) of 793903

Obama to take a definitive stance? Gay Marriage Issue Looming, Obama Sits for an Interview By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL BARBARO 2:03 p.m. \| Updated With his re-election bid looming, President Obama is set to confront one of the most sensitive political challenges of his presidency on Wednesday as he sits down for an interview that is likely to include a discussion of his views on gay marriage. The hastily-arranged interview, with ABC’s Robin Roberts, will give Mr. Obama another opportunity to clarify what he has called his “evolving” position on a social issue that continues to sharply divide the American public. In 2010, Mr. Obama said that his long-standing opposition to the idea of same-sex marriages has been changing. But he has refused to say since then whether he now supports extending the rights and privileges of marriage to same-sex couples. “My feelings about this are constantly evolving,” he said two years ago. “I struggle with this. I have friends, I have people who work for me who are in powerful, strong, long-lasting gay or lesbian unions. And they are extraordinary people. And this is something that means a lot to them and they care deeply about.” The effort by the White House to set up the interview comes after several days of intense pressure on Mr. Obama following comments in support of gay marriage by Vice President Joe Biden and Arne Duncan, the secretary of education.

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