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stopbush

(24,396 posts)
Wed May 9, 2012, 03:00 PM May 2012

YES HE DID! Obama Embraces Marriage Equality!!

OBAMA: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

http://thinkprogress.org/

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YES HE DID! Obama Embraces Marriage Equality!! (Original Post) stopbush May 2012 OP
K&R...nt SidDithers May 2012 #1
Kick. pinto May 2012 #2
K&R tallahasseedem May 2012 #3
Good for you, Mr. President. hifiguy May 2012 #4
k/r fishwax May 2012 #5
Props to Quaker schools!!! Patiod May 2012 #6
It's about damn time!!! Initech May 2012 #7
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #8
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
4. Good for you, Mr. President.
Wed May 9, 2012, 03:06 PM
May 2012

Nice touch about the same-sex couples in the military. Well done, sir.

Patiod

(11,816 posts)
6. Props to Quaker schools!!!
Wed May 9, 2012, 03:20 PM
May 2012

I was SO glad when I heard Malia and Sasha were going to Friends School, because I know our Friends School embraces couples of all sorts (well, as long as they can pay the insane tuition). He mentioned their friends have same-sex parents, and it's clear they made those friends at Quaker school!!!

So we Quakers are worming our liberal values into the First Family!

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