One of the things on which both presidential candidates agree upon is that they wouldn’t support the move to allow gay couples to wed when and if they are elected as the nation’s president.

Despite the fact that Barack Obama has several gay friends, some of them wealthy donors for his presidential campaign, the Illinois Senator opposes gay-marriage. He was pressured on this subject by many gay-marriage supporters who told Obama that he is not fair because he had previously condemned old miscegenation laws that would have forbidden his black father from marrying his white mother and he should do the same about the same-sex marriage.

Obama said the difference between the two sets of laws is rooted in religion. The Senator is a Christian and consequently regards marriage as a sacred union between a man and a woman, his advisors said. Obama’s position on this issue is that he doesn’t support the laws to ban same-sex marriage.

On the other hand, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is also against same-sex marriage, but his views on the matter are a bit different. The Illinois Senator said that his position on this subject is mainly influenced by generational and cultural experiences and not by his religious beliefs, his presidential campaign advisors said.

Meanwhile, both sides are making last minute moves as voting on Proposition 8, the Californian ballot measure regarding same-sex marriage, is nearing. If Proposition 8 passes and is enacted into law, the future gay weddings will be barred and those almost 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who took advantage of the fortuitous legal window will also be legally in trouble.