Today in an interview with ABC News, President Obama came out (no pun intended) as saying he supported the right of same-sex couples to get married.

Here’s his actual quote:

“I’ve been going through an evolution on this issue. I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. 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.”

So now I’m trying to predict how various Republicans are going to distort this.

I know if Santorum were still running, he’d say that Obama is in favor of people marrying streetlamps. Or, under the Obama plan, everyone must marry a San Francisco leather queen. He’s not running any more, but he’ll probably still say these things.

I think that Romney is more likely to say that now somehow you have to pay for other people’s gay weddings. I truly expect that one: It’s going to cost “us” when these gay people get married.

And I’m still trying to figure out how they’ll work in other Others (al-Qaeda; unions; socialists; wine-drinkers; people with college degrees), because clearly this is their work.

And I expect all of this to start… 20 minutes ago.

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