Obama Stymied on Gay Marriage by ‘A Whole Bunch of Religious Sensitivities Out There’

President Obama says his former adviser David Axelrod didn’t get it quite right in his new book, when Axelrod wrote that Obama pretended to oppose same-sex marriage before 2012 because he didn’t want to alienate voters.
Obama told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, “I always felt that same-sex couples should be able to enjoy the same rights, legally, as anybody else and so it was frustrating to me not to, I think, be able to square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there.”

 

Instead of backing gay marriage, Obama publicly supported civil unions, a position he found uncomfortable, Axelrod wrote:

 

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