Contents:
- HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
- OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
- OBAMA’S LEGACY INCLUS CHRISTIAN-CENTERED SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS
HOW OBAMA BEME THE GAY-RIGHTS PRINT
Sce takg office, Print Obama and his Admistratn have ma historic stris to expand opportuni and advance equaly and jtice for all Amerins, cludg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. Insurance pani are no longer able to discrimate agast anyone due to a pre-existg ndn, and bee of the law, surers n no longer turn someone away jt bee he or she is lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Print Obama veloped and released the first prehensive Natnal HIV/AIDS Strategy for the Uned Stat 2010, updated through 2020, and is implementg to addrs the dispari faced pecially by gay and bisexual men of all rac and ethnici and transgenr women of lor.
OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
The Print signed bipartisan legislatn to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell on December 22, 2010, allowg gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins to serve openly the Armed Forc whout fear of beg dismissed om service bee of who they are and who they love, puttg motn the end of a discrimatory policy that ran unter to Amerin valu. Over the next two years, the iative has veloped and evaluated strategi to prevent lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth om beg homels or tervene as early as possible once they do bee homels.
Once the rince of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the home was where the natn's first chartered LGBT rights anizatn, the Society for Human Rights, was formed 1924. Congrs 2009 passed a feral hate crime law protectg LGBTQ people, and 2010 repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” the ary’s ban on gay soldiers servg openly. There was also the 2010 repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” which prohibed gay people om servg openly the ary.
“That was a policy that required discrimatn agast gay people, ” Esseks of the ACLU said of “don’t ask, don’t tell. But the admistratn never acknowledged that sex discrimatn bans as also clu gay, lbian, and bisexual people.
OBAMA’S LEGACY INCLUS CHRISTIAN-CENTERED SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS
(The theory is that if you discrimate agast someone who’s gay, lbian, bisexual, or a same-sex relatnship, ’s rooted prejudic about whom people of certa sex should love or be a sexual relatnship wh — so ’s sex discrimatn, which is banned the workplace, hog, and schools, unr feral law. ” But he’s nfint that urts will soon enough fish the job and si wh gay, lbian, and bisexual people on this issue. He also says that he supports affirmative actn for gays and lbians.
Senate mpaign, addg, “but what I also believe is that we have an obligatn to make sure that gays and lbians have the rights of cizenship that afford them visatns to hospals, that allow them to transfer property to each other, to make sure they’re not discrimated agast on the job.” He says homosexualy is not a choice and “for the most part, is nate.” Obama distguish marriage om other civil rights, sayg, “We have a set of tradns place that I thk need to be prerved.”.