BREAKING: Obama campaign releases statement opposing Amendment One (+ a back story)

Well, naysayers out there who said that the President would not say a peep about the discriminatory Amendment One in NC because it’s an election year (even though he did so in 2008 for Prop 8), you’ll have to eat crow. His campaign obviously “did the math” and decided it was the right thing to do to release a statement opposing it. (News & Observer’s Under the Dome):

“While the president does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the record is clear that the President has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same sex couples,” said Cameron French, his North Carolina campaign spokesman.

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