On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers took President Obama to task over characterizing his shifting views on same-sex marriage as an “evolution.” Anchor Jon Scott asked Powers why Obama got away with being called flip flopper.

Brit Hume attacked the conventional wisdom on President Obama’s gay marriage announcement this week on Fox News Sunday. Hume said that the nakedly political rollout of Obama’s position on gay marriage was an attempt to merely excite the base and curry favor with a segment of the Democratic electorate, but by avoiding policy proscriptions that advance what has come to be seen as a civil rights issue, he looks to be avoiding the tough decisions. “Far from being a kind of post-partisan leader and all the rest of it, that he turns out to be just another politician doing what politicians do,” said Hume. “And I think that’s harmful to him.”

On the heels of his anti-gay marriage, anti-civil union double-down on Evolution Day, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was at least getting credit for supporting gay adoption. Thankfully, he cleared that noise up today in an interview with Charlotte, NC’s WBTV-CLT (The Clt!). Confronted with his statement that gay adoption was “fine,” Romney said he was simply acknowledging the fact that gay adoption is legal in almost every state.

Senator Rand Paul spoke this weekend at the Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa, and in the middle of his speech he got around to President Obama making news this week on gay marriage. Despite Paul’s libertarian views, he does not support gay marriage, but he does favor letting the states decide (which is essentially Obama’s position too). Paul noted Obama’s explanation that his views on the issue have been evolving for some time, and remarked, “Call me cynical, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage could get any gayer.”

There has been all sorts of substantive news about gay marriage this week, it’s easy to forget the small moments. I’m referring, of course, to the Nebraska woman who gave her remarkably unique reasoning for why gay people should not be allowed to get married. To say she went off the rails would be kind. More accurately, she went off the rails and down into a bottomless pit of confused bigotry. Thankfully, the guys over at Red Eye picked up this moment and decided to have some fun with it.

Ann Coulter sat down with Sean Hannity on his radio show Thursday to talk about President Obama finally coming out in support of gay marriage. Coulter didn’t spend too much time going after Obama for his position, instead going after him for putting his own reelection chances ahead of members of his own party. Several Democratic legislators in contentious elections are backing away from Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage so they stay in office. Coulter said that the president’s thought process on this was just to “screw them six ways to Sunday” and keep the focus on his own reelection.

A memo sent out by a Republican pollster has been making the rounds online for its conclusion that the party needs to embrace gay marriage as part of its platform because of recent trends showing increased support for this important social issue. Jan van Lohuizen, who worked as a pollster for George W. Bush in 2004, made the case that the GOP should be fighting for gay marriage as a conservative issue, by emphasizing that “freedom means freedom for everyone.”

One prominent North Carolina politician has been making her opposition to Amendment One, the proposal that passed this week to end recognition of all civil unions in the state beyond an already-existing ban on gay marriage, known. Governor Beverly Perdue remarked that the vote was disappointing coming from a “progressive forward thinking economically driven state” and added that by having a population that overwhelmingly supports such measures, “we look like Mississippi.”

One cannot help but marvel at how the Obama administration’s hand was forced on the gay marriage issue after a “gaffe” from Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press this week. Three days after the VP came out in favor of gay marriage, President Obama made his position known to the public. Bill Maher pointed out the interesting turn of events in his final New Rule of the night…

Following President Barack Obama‘s voicing his support of same-sex marriage, the punditry immediately commenced. How political is the announcement? How will this affect his re-election prospects? Well, according to a new Gallup poll, the answer to latter is, not much. Majority of Americans polled said Obama’s announcement won’t sway their vote.

One of the relatively “bright” spots to come out of this week’s discussion of gay marriage for Mitt Romney is that he has at least been getting credit for being “fine” with gay couples adopting children. However, a new video out from progressive SuperPAC American Bridge casts some doubt on the depth of that conviction, featuring clips of Romney arguing against gay parenting, even as compared with one live and one dead straight parent.

During Wednesday night’s primetime Fox Business Network programming, another Fox personality expressed some support for same-sex marriage, joining colleagues like Shepard Smith, who recently said that President Obama’s same-sex marriage views are “now in the 21st century”.

On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week’s big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama‘s “big nothing” of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he’ll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?

On Thursday night, Jon Stewart again took a look at President Barack Obama‘s gay marriage endorsement — and just how far the national conversation on the issue has come. Particularly over at Fox News.

Army Capt. Stephen Hill — the soldier who was booed at a GOP debate for asking the candidates whether they’d reinstate the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy — paid a visit to Ed Schultz on Thursday, to discuss President Barack Obama‘s gay marriage announcement. Hill was joined by singer and LGBT activist Clay Aiken.

On Thursday’s Ellen, host Ellen Degeneres gave an enthusiastic reception to President Obama‘s affirmation to ABC’s Robin Roberts that “same-sex couples should be able to get married.” “What an amazing day for our country!” DeGeneres exclaimed.

President Barack Obama‘s decision to support same-sex marriage will become a campaign issue, Bill O’Reilly said on Thursday. Taking a look at the politics of marriage, O’Reilly knocked the media for being unable to have an honest debate about the issue, singling out one particular New York Times reporter.

Thursday’s edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews played host to a heated battle between Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and Family Research Council Tony Perkins over issues related to homosexuality.

Following President Barack Obama‘s voicing his support for same-sex marriage, many speculated that Vice President Joe Biden‘s endorsement of marriage equality over the weekend directly led to the president’s announcement. On Thursday, we learned that Obama had planned to make the announcement regardless, but that Biden expedited the process. Biden has since apologized to the president, according to The New York Times.

One of the media flashpoints in the recent debate over marriage equality has been the persistent use of analogies to the Jim Crow and slavery eras of American history, particularly over the idea of leaving the issue to the states. President Obama‘s evolution-heard-’round-the-world contained a reference that seemed to endorse the idea of marriage equality as a states’ rights issue, but should gay marriage supporters be disturbed by it?

On the heels of President Barack Obama‘s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage, Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick reveals that Vice President Joe Biden had tested his own remarks on gay marriage earlier.

Well, that was quick! President Obama‘s re-election campaign released a new ad touting the president’s newly evolved view on gay marriage — while criticizing Mitt Romney for his views, which is bringing us “backwards.”

On his nationally-syndicated radio show Thursday, Rush Limbaugh said that “gay militants” run The New York Times during a segment on the newspapers’ editorial response to President Obama‘s newfound support for same-sex marriage.

Bristol Palin had some fightin’ words about President Obama on Thursday, regarding his invoking Malia and Sasha Obama in his announcement about supporting same-sex marriage. While it’s great to listen to your kids, she said, sometimes “dads simply need to be dads.” Thank goodness they’re not younger. Or, you know, we’d be looking at Dora the Explorer for attorney general.

On Thursday’s Now with Alex Wagner on MSNBC, New York Daily News columnist S.E. Cupp weighed in on President Barack Obama’s revelatory interview with ABC News in which he confirmed that he did support same-sex marriage rights. Cupp questioned whether the moment was politically driven, more by the need for donations from the gay rights community than by belief in the cause of gay marriage. Also, she said that gay and lesbian Americans should rethink just how much Obama did for them by opening up in this way. Cupp said, “If I’m in the gay rights community, am I really happy that this is a president who just said, ‘well, I’ve finally decided to like you guys. I’ve decided I accept you people.”