奥巴马总统公开支持同性婚姻(3/3)
概述：奥巴马总统于5月9日明确宣布支持同性婚姻，从而成为第一位支持爆炸性政治理念的总统，为2012年的总统大选增加了一个极具争议性的议题。Hints:
Joe Biden
NBC
Meet the Press
Obama
ABC News
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Defense of Marriage Act
North Carolina
District of Columbia
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答疑：常小猫http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201205/20120515063029603090.mp3The president's position on the issue gained new attention after a TV appearance Sunday by Vice President Joe Biden. He was on NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women,and heterosexual men marrying women are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties."
President Obama announced the change in his thinking on ABC News on Wednesday.
"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."
He noted his success at ending the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and his opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act.
But Mr. Obama said he still supports the right of individual states to decide the marriage issue. He spoke a day after a large majority of voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional ban on homosexual marriage. North Carolina became the 30th state to pass such an amendment. The ban also includes civil unions and domestic partnerships.
Currently, six of the 50 states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex couples to marry. Nine states allow civil unions or provide rights under domestic partnership laws.周日，副总统乔·拜登在出席NBC的“新闻面对面”节目之后，他在该问题上的立场又获得了更新的关注。
“男男或女女的婚姻应该与男女间的婚姻享有完全相同的权利，完全相同的民事权利，完全相同的公民自由，我对这点十分赞成。”
奥巴马总统周三在ABC新闻中公开了他在思想上转变。
“从某个方面来说，我认为同性恋人应该可以结婚，能迈出这一步并确认这一点对于我个人而言非常重要。”
他还提及了他在终结军方的“不问，不说”政策上取得的成功和对《国防婚姻法案》的异议。
但是，在北卡罗来纳州绝大部分选民赞成通过禁止同性婚姻的宪法禁令之后，奥巴马称他仍然支持各州独立制定婚姻法案。北卡已成为第30个通过类似修正法案的州。该禁令也包括了民事结合和同居关系。
目前，50个州中的六个和哥伦比亚特区允许同性伴侣结婚，九个州允许民事结合或在同居法案的规定中赋予了同居权。
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