Then Comes Marriage How gay marriage went from the fringe to the
White House. Newlyweds Russell Kemp and Tom Whalen with their
children. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Flying
Television In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a state’s
right to prosecute two men for having sex. Today, 26 years
later, the president of the United States affirmed the right of
two men to marry. How did this happen? How did same-sex marriage
go from a nonstarter—an idea so farfetched that nobody even
polled the question—to a policy that half the country supports?
To answer that question, watch the interview President Obama
gave to ABC News this afternoon. Obama didn’t answer the
marriage question like a president. He answered it like an
ordinary person. In his responses, you can see the cultural
changes that have moved millions of Americans in the same
direction. Obama told ABC’s Robin Roberts that he and his wife
are “practicing Christians” and that to endorse same-sex
marriage would “put us at odds with the views of