President Obama has expressed his hope that the U.S. Supreme Court make the “right decision” on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Justin Snow reported in MetroWeekly that Obama said these remarks during an interview on Thursday with one of three YouTube creators at the White House.
“My hope is that they go ahead and recognize what I think the majority of people in America now recognize, which is two people who love each other and are treating each other with respect, and aren’t bothering anybody else, why would the law treat them differently?” Obama told YouTube creator GloZell Green. “There’s no good reason for it, and so as a consequence I’m hopeful the Supreme Court comes to the right decision.”
Earlier in the week he had declared same-sex marriage a civil right in his State of the Union speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a consolidated case challenging same-sex marriage bans in four states — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee — with oral arguments expected to be heard in April with a decision handed down by the court in June.
