Apple’s Backing Puts Gay-Marriage Focus on Obama at Court

Gay-marriage advocates, aiming to show broad support as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue for the first time, have enlisted Apple Inc. (AAPL), Morgan Stanley (MS) and dozens of Republicans who once held top government positions.

Now they’re eyeing the White House.

President Barack Obama’s administration has until tomorrow to say whether it will join about 60 companies and a largely Republican group that includes six former governors in urging the court to back gay marriage nationwide.

Obama “has not yet said there is a constitutional right to marry, but he has been very careful not to say there isn’t,” said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, a New York- based national gay rights group. “The time for him to say it is is now.”

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