On Saturday night, President Obama became the second sitting president to deliver an address at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the leading groups seeking lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights (Bill Clinton is the other). In his remarks, Obama promised to end “don’t ask-don’t tell” in the military, took credit for the federal hate-crimes legislation that was stealthly added to a defense bill last week, and pledged to appeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

Then he made this promise:

“You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”

In response, Albert Mohler writes this morning:

“Those words represent a moral revolution that goes far beyond what any other president has ever promised or articulated. In the span of a single sentence, President Obama put his administration publicly on the line to press, not only for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, but for the recognition that same-sex relationships are ‘just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.’

“It is virtually impossible to imagine a promise more breathtaking in its revolutionary character than this — to normalize same-sex relationships to the extent that they are recognized as being as admirable as heterosexual marriage.

“The attendees at the human rights campaign’s annual dinner heard the President of the United States make that breathtaking pledge. Was the rest of America listening?”