New evidence brought to light by the Family Research Council (FRC), however, has revealed that in 1996, when Obama first ran for the Illinois state senate, Outlines, a Chicago homosexualist newspaper reported that Obama supported same-sex "marriage." Last week a successor paper, the Windy City Times, published specific documentation regarding Obama's earlier stance.

The Windy City Times article states: "President-elect Obama's answer to a 1996 Outlines newspaper question on marriage was: ‘I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.’ There was no use of the phrase "civil unions"."

The Family Research Council news brief also mentions a candidate questionnaire by IMPACT, at that time a homosexual political action group, which proposed a resolution that "the state should not interfere with same-gender couples who choose to marry and share fully and equally in the rights responsibilities and commitment of civil marriage." Obama wrote, apparently in his own hand, "I would support such a resolution."

In the course of his campaign, Obama wrote an open letter concerning LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) equality in America: "As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws.  I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment," wrote Obama.  He added that he would not oppose states that chose to protect the equality of homosexual couples through civil "marriage."

A statement by Windy City Times editor Tracy Baim reveals the surreptitious political strategies used by Obama to gain the presidency: "In a January 2004 interview I conducted with Obama at the Windy City Times' office, Obama clearly stated that lack of support for full marriage equality was a matter of strategy rather than principle."

The Family Research Council news brief concludes, "If American voters had understood Obama's real views, his candidacy for president might have gone the way of other open supporters of same-sex ‘marriage’- like Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Does concealing one's real beliefs to gain political advantage represent ‘change we can believe in?’”