Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage came just a day after voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and after two top members of the Obama administration publicly voiced their own support for gay marriage.
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that he is “absolutely comfortable” with men marrying men and women marrying women, while Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview Monday on MSNBC that he supports gay marriage.And the two are not alone.
In a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 50 percent of Americans said they support the legalization of gay marriage, while 65 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents said the same. But support for gay marriage doesn’t reach across party lines – among Republicans surveyed, 27 percent said they support legalizing gay marriage.