I just received a breaking news email from Politico, the key contents of which are this:
President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he believes that same-sex marriages performed in one state should apply in another.
"It's my personal belief -- and I'm speaking now as a president [not] as a lawyer -- if you're married in Massachusetts and you move someplace else, you're still married," he said at a press conference with his Senegalese counterpart, in Dakar, Senegal.
"But again, I'm speaking as a president and not as a lawyer," he cautioned, saying that lawyers in his administration are working out the details of what Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings will mean. That work is being done by the executive branch in a "systematic and prompt way," he said. "It's important that people who deserve these benefits, that they're getting them quickly."
That should make clear that this administration will actively support the idea that federal benefits will apply regardless of where a same-sex couple legally married chooses to move.
And by implication, it suggests that the administration would support those that might challenge state bans upon recognizing the marriage.
We will have to see.
But this is good news, guaranteed to roil the Republicans and much of their base.