WAS HE AS IT SINCERE OR WAS IT JUST A POLITICAL STUNT?!

On Wednesday, May 09,2012 President Barack Obama said  he supports same-sex marriage, raising the political stakes on an issue over which Americans are evenly split. Obama said in an interview with ABC News, "At a certain point 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." Many Americans are wondering if this how he really feels or if this is a political stunt to stay in office, because the announcement was the first by a sitting president and put Obama squarely at odds with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who on Wednesday said during an appearance in Oklahoma, "I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman." the thing that really raises eyebrows is the fact that Obama once opposed such marriages. Why the sudden change? He later states, "I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient," the president said. "I was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs." the thing is if Romney had not made that statement would president Obama have still changed his ideals about same- sex marriage? The jury is still out on that one, but its looking kind of shady that president Obama has been in office for four years and now all of a sudden, after Mitt Romney, one of his toughest opponets, makes a comment about his dislike for same sex marriage, the president is "singing a different tune" it seems kind of shady to me. I believe its just a political stunt he's pulling just to get the homosexual group's votes in his favor. What do you think?