Obama campaign pits president vs. Romney on LGBT rights

President Barack Obama's recent decision to support same-sex marriage was the lead selling point against Mitt Romney in the president's campaign announcement Wednesday of a new drive to court the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) community.

"The choice we're facing as a country and a community could not be clearer," said Joe Solmonese, a national campaign co-chair and president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). "We could re-elect a leader who's working with our community toward full equality under the law, or we could sit back and watch Mitt Romney take us back...