Today Barack Obama (and Hillary Clinton) failed to answer a very basic question: 'Do you think being gay is immoral?'. Here's the scoop from Newsday:

Newsday caught Obama as he was leaving the firefighters convention and asked him three times if he thought homsexuality is immoral. Answer 1: "I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has restricted his public comments to military matters. That's probably a good tradition to follow." Answer 2: "I think the question here is whether somebody is willing to sacrifice for their country, should they be able to if they're doing all the things that should be done." Answer 3: Signed autograph, posed for snapshot, jumped athletically into town car. Why the dance? Maybe it has something to do with not wanting to alienate moderates -- or social conservatives, the churchfolk who view homosexuality as a sin.