Terminology

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New York Times      May 9, 2012

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

By JACKIE CALMES and PETER BAKER

WASHINGTON — Before President Obama left the White House on Tuesday morning to fly to an event in Albany, several aides intercepted him in the Oval Office. Within minutes it was decided: the president would endorsesame-sex marriage on Wednesday, completing a wrenching personal transformation on the issue.

 As described by several aides, that quick decision and his subsequent announcement in a hastily scheduled network television interview were thrust on the White House by 48 hours of frenzied will-he-or-won’t-he speculation after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. all but forced the president’s hand by embracing the idea of same-sex unions in a Sunday talk show interview....

...And so it was that Mr. Obama on Wednesday afternoon sat down in the White House with ABC’s Robin Roberts and made news, after nearly two years of saying that his views on same-sex marriage were “evolving.”
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It is interesting to me that if Gov. Romney changes his mind he is a flip-flopper, but when Pres. Obama changes his mind he is "evolving."