While Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been thoroughly lambasted in recent weeks for his outspoken position against same-sex marriage, President Obama has become known as a champion for gay rights.
The President’s position on the issue has changed drastically during the last decade, to say the least, swinging from one extreme to the other.
In a new book by longtime Obama aide David Axelrod, the president’s former top advisor even admitted that Mr. Obama lied to the American public about his position on gay marriage.
For as long as we had been working together, Obama had felt a tug between his personal views and the politics of gay marriage…. [H]e grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a “sacred union.” Having prided himself on forthrightness, though, Obama never felt comfortable with his compromise and, no doubt, compromised position. He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews.
But while President Obama has been on almost every imaginable side of the gay marriage debate — as you’ll see in the quiz below — Moore has steadfastly remained perhaps the country’s most vehement supporter of traditional marriage.
So, without further ado, who said it, Roy Moore or Obama?
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— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizEBeesh) January 21, 2015
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