That Isn't Barack Obama's 1996 Candidate Signature Indicating He Supported Marriage Equality?

Wow. I feel like I'm watching a denial from the Obama Administration of Barack Obama's 1996 position on marriage equality in the face of documentation that makes the denial appear to be a lie. It looks to me to be an attempt at a history rewrite.

From AmericaBlog's Senior White House aide: 1996 Obama gay marriage questionnaire is a fake, even though Obama signed it:

During a Q&A this morning at the annual Netroots Nation liberal blog conference, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer claimed that Barack Obama never filled out a pair of 1996 questionnaires that show then-Illinois-legislature-candidate Obama supporting gay marriage.

It's expanded upon in AmericaBlog Gay, in an article with the same name:

Those are some fighting words from the Obama administration, and they're almost certainly an outright lie.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told the Netroots Nation blog conference this morning that the Barack Obama never filled out the 1996 questionnaire, when he was running for the Illinois legislature, in which he averred that he supports gay marriage. The questionnaire - two questionnaires in fact - have been out there for years - 15 years in fact - and it has caused the President, who now claims to oppose marriage equality for gay couples, a good amount of heartburn as reporters, such as the Blade's Chris Johnson, keep asking the White House it.

This is the first time Obama has tried to question the questionnaires' authenticity. Both are fakes?

Here's Pfeiffer this morning:

"If you actually go back and look, that questionnaire was actually filled out by someone else, not the President."

AmericaBlog Gay then shows a copy the document that Barack Obama signed. (There's more in the article at AmericaBlog Gay that's worth the read too.)

I can't imagine that this isn't going to cause problems between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and the Obama Administration, and it will require someone more senior to White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer in an attempt to straighten this out.

Seriously, this looks to me like White House amateur hour at Netroots Nation. I'll betcha the White House isn't going to enjoy that huge can of worms that Pfeiffer just likely opened up with the LGBT community's political donor base.