The public should pay more attention and there should be more grilling of the candidates based on their standards for appointing federal judges,
because it's one of the most significant decisions the president makes. That being said,
obama has appointed a whopping 2 of 9 judges so blaming him for the inevitable outcome is nonsense
, particularly in light of comments like these:
"I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about, primarily just as a strategic issue. I think that marriage, in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation. I know that’s true in the African-American community, for example." - interview with a *gay newspaper* as illinois senator
"I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.” - 2008 presidential race, sounding a lot like ted cruz or any other bigot
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage" - also 2008
"I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage" - October 2010, after nominating the 2 judges to SCOTUS who will vote in this year's case
"I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” - May 9, 2012, earliest public statement of his i can find that supports SSM
So are you saying that by 2010, when he appointed these 2 judges, he demanded voting to strike down ALL bans on SSM as some kind of litmus test? Where is your evidence for THAT?