Obama and Romney Can't Fence Sit on Marriage Equality

While President Obama's attitude concerning same-sex marriage is evolving and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's attitude is an unequivocal denouncement, the American people seem to be moving solidly toward an acceptance of marriage equality.

Both Obama and Romney need to get with the program.

Simply put: In the last presidential election it would have been political suicide to support marriage equality. This November it may be a risk not to.

If Romney too vociferously denounces same-sex marriage, or attempts to employ it as a wedge issue (as candidate George W. Bush successfully did in 2004), he'll risk not only Republican donations, but also Republican voters—and not just moderate ones.
“As they look past a dwindling anti-gay slice of their base smart Republicans know they need to get in step with their own professed values—freedom, responsibility, small government—not to mention America’s majority for marriage,” Evan Wolfson writes in a recent New York Times op-ed “The Anti-Gay Base Is Shrinking.” Wolfson is the founder and president of Marry, and is the author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.

http://www.shewired.com/lifestyle/2012/04/19/obama-and-romney-cant-fence-sit-marriage-equality-op-ed