Bully for him. The controversy, however, is none of his business as president. Family law and similar matters of public health, safety, and morals are part of the broad "police" power retained by the States via the Tenth Amendment -- the federal government may do only the paltry few things the States entrusted to it, and everything else stays at home, including marriage.
As I have said before, I have no problem if the people of a given State approve gay marriage. By the same token, the people of a given State may choose not to approve gay marriage, just as North Carolina and several others have done. To dispute this is to attack the Constitution and millennia of human experience.
I should pause to point out that there is absolutely nothing to prevent a gay couple from marrying. Send out the invitations, secure the overpriced venue, hire a photographer, use an officiant from the cafeteria of churches America now has, gorge yourselves on food and drink, dance badly, and pronounce yourselves husband-husband or wife-wife or whatever else. Nobody will stop you. What's at stake here is something quite different, i.e., whether a State government will bless the union and place it on par with a heterosexual one. If you're going to ask for public approval, it follows that the public may withhold such approval. That's another self-evident fact that many people who dislike reality have trouble accepting.
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