Obama's stance on same-sex marriage

If you haven't seen the video yet, I think it's important to not only read what comes out of various offices and what is reported on various public figures' remarks, but also to hear and see it from them directly. Here is a link to an article with the video clip and somewhat of a transcript, as well as links to longer video segments:
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/president-obama-affirms-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html

LifeSiteNews has a more critical article that incorporates Obama's history of statements on the issue, in more substantial detail:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/obama-says-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage-based-on-the-golden-rule

I think that it is important to note that Obama seems uncomfortable delivering these remarks, as though his "affirmation" (his term) is hesitating: "at a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married" could nonsubstantively be reduced to "I think same sex couples should be able to get married". It gave me great hope to see Secretary Sibelius (HHS) shifting her weight nervously and struggling to hold a blank expression as Obama announced the controversial January mandate to her department. Obama's hesitating expressions, especially in the critical moment in this statement on same-sex marriages, as well as Secretary Sibelius' nervous body language, give evidence of the intuitive notion that what was just spoken was incorrect. This realization is precisely the fissure in the dam that will ultimately burst wide the floodgates of truth.

Oh, how we pray for the day when those who hold tight to the self-defeating doctrine of relativism will realize their folly. It's not that "I have the truth and you don't," however true or false this may be, and in degrees of truth and falsehood; rather, it is the case that the truth is out there: I seek it, and relativists reject or ignore it. The truth speaks for itself, and sets us free.
  

Love the Immaculata!
Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca