This applies to same-sex marriage as well. Cf. Stanley Kurtz - "Obama's Past Tells the Truth" [my emphases]
About a week before Obama’s inauguration, the Windy City Times (“the voice of Chicago’s gay, lesbian, bi and trans community”) revealed that on February 15, 1996, in the midst of his first campaign for the Illinois State Senate, Obama told a local gay paper in answer to a questionnaire: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” That was news in early 2009, because Obama maintained steadfast opposition to gay marriage throughout his 2007-08 presidential run. (The Windy City Times reporter who found the original questionnaire with Obama’s statement claims to have stumbled upon it only just after the election.) So it turns out that if you unearth previously hidden documentary evidence of what Obama believed about same-sex marriage in 1996, you have a better guide to his actions as president than his own campaign promises or early presidential statements from 2007-2010.
. . . That Obama favored gay marriage in 1996, disguised that fact during the 2008 campaign, then effectively reverted to his original position when president, doesn’t prove that the same pattern applies to other issues. Yet it certainly does make my argument in Radical-in-Chief more plausible. -[i.e. only the president’s past reveals the full meaning of his plans for our future.] more ...
Me: Utterly persuasive
Other articles on DOMA or homosexuality (from the FRC's Social Conservative Review)
- "The President's Unconstitutional Two-for-One," Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council
- "Evolutionary Law," Cal Thomas, The Patriot Post
- "DOMA move helps President Obama with gays," Josh Gerstein, The Politico
- "President Obama's DOMA Outrage Will Backfire," Maggie Gallagher, National Catholic Register
- "Obama's Past Tells the Truth," Stanley Kurtz, Ricochet
- "The Conversation Our Culture Cannot Have, But Must Anyway," Matthew Lee Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy
- "Why do so many Americans support same-sex 'marriage'," R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Baptist Press
- "Obama's Unreasonable Abandonment of DOMA," Gerard V. Bradley, The Public Discourse