Obama: I didn’t lie about supporting gay ‘marriage,’ you just didn’t understand
English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 11, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – President Barack Obama is denying an account by a close adviser that he lied about his views on gay “marriage” to get elected president in 2008. In an interview yesterday, Obama said he didn't lie; it's just that he was misunderstood. However, Obama admitted he supported government-enforced recognition of homosexuality, and “it was frustrating to me” that he had to “square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there.” Obama's close campaign operative and senior adviser David Axelrod wrote that Obama always favored redefining marriage but lied about it in order not to alienate black pastors and voters in North Carolina . Obama strongly supported same-sex “marriage” in his 1996 run for Illinois state Senate , responding to a questionnaire by saying...