Barack Obama joins an unstoppable global trend towards equality
President Obama has moved with the flow of history, at last. He now joins Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the new French President, Francois Hollande, in backing same-sex marriage. It’s one of the great moral and human rights crusades of our age – and it’s an unstoppable global trend. There is a growing momentum to end the ban on gay marriage in more and more countries, from Cuba to Finland, Uruguay, Nepal, Denmark, Brazil, Australia and Colombia.
Obama’s support will have a huge positive impact. It will boost the worldwide campaign for marriage equality and, through media reporting of his support, raise awareness of gay marriage among billions of people in every corner of the globe. Even people living under tyrannical, homophobic regimes will hear the message of gay equality. Bravo!
It is significant that Obama’s change of heart was influenced by the sacrifices of US lesbian and gay military personnel and by discussions with his family and friends, including gay White House staffers and gay parents at his daughters’ school. This concurs with existing evidence that people who know a gay person are more likely to support gay equal rights. Read More
