Every Friday, The Takeaway looks back at the week’s big stories with a few people who have been paying very, very close attention. This week, Takeaway contributor and Republican political strategist Ron Christie and Kai Wright, an editor at COLORLINES magazine, discuss President Obama’s support for gay marriage, North Carolina’s constitutional amendment defining marriage, Dick Lugar’s ouster from the Senate, and allegations that Mitt Romney bullied a gay high school classmate.
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