The question has certainly been asked before, and no less a presidential expert than Jimmy Carter argued in late 2010 that this could happen "in the near future," based on rapid pro-gay shifts in public opinion. But several formidable hurdles, and one in particular, still remain.
Zach Stafford | Posted 05.12.2012
You will spawn a million discussions and debates around living in a post-racial and post-homophobic society, but as CNN covers this celebratory event, another LGBTQ youth will sleep in a dark alley in Chicago, with no home, and another child will contemplate suicide.
AP | By MATTI HUUHTANEN | Posted 01.23.2012
HELSINKI -- The conservative favorite easily won the first round of Finland's presidential election Sunday, setting up a runoff against an environment...
Posted 05.25.2011
Former President Jimmy Carter said in a recent interview that the nation's tolerance of gays had grown to a level that could facilitate the election o...
Posted 05.25.2011
Fifty percent of Americans say they'd support having an openly gay President of the United States, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll shows. Forty-four...
Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D. | Posted 04.17.2012