Last Thursday, the day
after President Obama finally endorsed gay marriage, his
campaign released a video that faults his presumptive
Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, for not doing likewise.
“President Obama is moving us forward,” the ad says. “Mitt Romney
would take us back.” In a sense, says Senior Editor Jacob
Sullum, Obama is the one going back, returning to
a position he took as a political novice in 1996. But the
same changes in public opinion that made it thinkable for him to
stop equivocating on gay marriage present a challenge to Romney as
he repositions himself for the general election.