Update:

Obama has weighed in, and come down firmly on the side of… Obama.

“I’ve stated my opposition to this. I think it’s unnecessary,” Obama told MTV. “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about.”

That’s the clear, incisive thinking you’d expect from a man who taught constitutional law. Given how bad reporters are these days perhaps he’s being misquoted, and the word “prohibit” really referred to “from something” when he said it. Who knows?

Let’s just be ready to remind him that he’s opposed, apparently, to “playing around with constitutions”.