Obama endorses gay marriage

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Rath said:

SamuelRSmith said:

the2real4mafol said:
can someone please explain why this is such a big deal in america, is it really that backward over there? Britain's tolerated gays for a few decades now, especially in the last 20 years

A gay person has more chance getting married in the US, than in the UK.

That is true, but there is more homophobia in the USA than in Britain. America has this really weird dual personality of the very socially liberal and the ridiculously socially conservative, most other countries don't have that to nearly the same degree.

I wonder if that's so or if it's just louder due to various factors.  Hard to find actual polls for other countries for some reason.

Either way.  That's just how the US is culturally.  Skeptical to change, but once we do we pivet faster then any nation ever. 

One of the last nations to outlaw slavery yet the first to have a Head of State from a racial minority. (That wasn't all apartheid like anyway.)