Via The Hill:

House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that although he supports same-sex marriage rights, he doesn’t agree with President Obama on allowing states to decide marriage policy.

“I, like the president, have evolved to a point of marriage equality. I have not always been there. I grew up in a parsonage. A fundamentalist Christian parsonage. I grew up with that indoctrination. I have grown to the point where I believe we have evolved to marriage equality”

“However, I depart from the president on the state-by-state approach. If you consider this to be a civil right, and I do, I don’t think civil rights ought to be left up to a state-by-state approach,” he added.

Clyburn revealed over the weekend that he was in favor of granting same-sex marriage rights, in his first remarks on the issue since the president announced his endorsement of gay marriage last Wednesday.