His silence on Amendment One this afternoon, and on gay marriage throughout his presidency, may keep his campaign managers happy, but hardly reflects the "yes we can" attitude that got him elected.
Today, citizens in the state of North Carolina are going to the polls to vote on Amendment One.
North Carolina residents will go to the polls to vote on Amendment One, which would define marriage as being between a man and a woman in the state's constitution, on May 8.
Over the course of the past month, specifically due to one exchange with a kind Pentecostal Holiness pastor, it became clear to me that the need to support Amendment One is based on two things.
On Friday, he told CNBC that he wasn't taking a position on the 14th Amendment "one way or the other," which raised the question of why he took a position on it in the first place.
11.43am BST They are now voting on the controversial part of amendment one.
One of the Coalition's first hires was a director of faith outreach, and so far, more than four hundred bishops, ministers, rabbis, and so forth have signed on as "people of faith against Amendment One".
This Friday, Ireland is voting on whether or not to repeal the Eighth Amendment, one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the world, which states that a woman and her fetus have an "equal right to life".
In May 2012, he appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" to talk about North Carolina's Amendment One, which defined marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman.
The proposal, called Amendment One, would ban not only same-sex marriages, but also civil unions.
In their zeal, lawmakers got careless with the wording of the measure, known as Amendment One.
