“That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director. “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.”
Alla republikanska homosexuella är dock inte lika kritiska. Den konservativa bloggaren Andrew Sullivan som är öppet homosexuell och gifte sig med sin man 2007 reagerade positivt på Obamas uttalande, och förklarade att det var först när han hörde det som han känslomässigt upplevde hur viktigt det faktiskt var att få höra en sådan sak från landets president:
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