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Contents:

• THE OBAMA LEGACY: THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
• PRINT OBAMA WEL GAY MARRIAGE LG
• OBAMA PRAIS SUPREME COURT'S DECISN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE NATNWI
• THE 'EVOLUTN' OF OBAMA'S STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO OBAMA REALLY THK ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE? A TELLG TIMELE.
• BIN PROV TALYST FOR OBAMA ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE

THE OBAMA LEGACY: THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE

Engagg homosexual acts was nsired a crime by 1791 all 13 stat after ratifyg the Bill of sodomy laws, the name given to laws and rtrictns toward certa sexual acts, remaed a nstant form of discrimatn for the LGBT muny, stigma surroundg homosexualy emerged to be jt as toxic and unhealthy for those dividuals. Livg a perd where was the “easit” to blame such an fectn on a mory prejudiced group ems jt how sperate Amerins would go to unrme the realy that, fact, love nnot be cred is not hand to Print Obama for legalizg gay marriage, but nohels, he is attributed to fishg some of the legal stctur agast the LGBT muny.

The ial report of battlg the uncivil laws agast gay marriage began on May 18, 1970 when two male graduate stunts applied for a marriage license at the Hennep County District Court. While the print has nsistently supported civil rights for gay upl — pepperg his ments wh specifics such as hospal visatn, transfer of property and Social Secury benefs — his discsn of marriage has differed.

PRINT OBAMA WEL GAY MARRIAGE LG

"(But) is my obligatn not only as an elected official a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid, jt as I nnot claim fallibily my support of abortn rights.

OBAMA PRAIS SUPREME COURT'S DECISN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE NATNWI

Still, a 2007 Democratic primary bate sponsored by a gay rights group and a gay-oriented ble TV channel, he spoke stead about his support for civil unns wh "all the benefs that are available for a legally sanctned marriage" — but not for legal regnn of "marriage" between same-sex upl. 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. 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.

THE 'EVOLUTN' OF OBAMA'S STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

What do mean is that we have a set of tradns place that, I thk, need to be prerved, but I also thk we need to make sure that gays and lbians have the same set of basic rights that are place. "I thk what you're seeg is a profound regnn on the part of the Amerin people that gays and lbians and transgenr persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our s, our iends, our -workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other Amerin, " he said. OCTOBER 2011: "I'm still workg on , " Obama said when asked by ABC's Gee Stephanopoulos whether he would move om supportg civil unns for same-sex upl to supportg gay marriage.

WHAT DO OBAMA REALLY THK ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE? A TELLG TIMELE.

The historic lg, which as public support for regnizg same-sex unns is at a rerd high, says that unr the Fourteenth Amendment, stat mt issue marriage licens to gay upl and regnize same-sex marriag performed other, who has publicly supported gay marriage sce 2012, said earlier this year he hoped the Supreme Court would legalize same-sex unns. 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 wrote: “And I was remd that is my obligatn, not only as an elected official a pluralistic society but also as a Christian, to rema open to the possibily that my unwillgns to support gay marriage is misguid … that J’ ll to love one another might mand a different ncln.

They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment.

BIN PROV TALYST FOR OBAMA ON GAY MARRIAGE

“[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said. ”Acrdg to Chigo’s Daily Herald, while Obama was nng for Senate early 2004, he told the newspaper’s edorial board that the gay rights stggle was parable to the 1960s civil rights movement, sayg that his father and mother wouldn't have been allowed to marry some Southern stat.

"So 's not as if I'm not sympathetic to the ia that … polics shouldn't get the way if somethg's right, " Obama told the then he add that gay rights advot had to make strategic cisns and phg for same-sex marriage wasn’t necsarily the bt strategy.

“What I also tell my gay and lbian iends is, look, if I was, you know, functng the early '60s tryg to get the Votg Rights Act passed and the Civil Rights Act passed, then I might not lead polilly wh, you know, tryg to reverse anti- miscegenatn laws....

GAY MARRIAGE

But Obama's spokman, Robert Gibbs, said, "Barack Obama is opposed to gay marriage but believ civil unns as a policy, and sendly, our posn on a nstutnal amendment (limg marriage to heterosexuals) is exactly the same posn as Vice Print Dick Cheney's that 's unnecsary. ”When HRC print Joe Solomone suggted that Obama’s stand sound to gays and lbians like the discreded “separate but equal” doctre that was ed for s to jtify racial discrimatn, Obama reverted to the tactil argument: “if I were advisg the civil rights movement back 1961 about s approach to civil rights, I would have probably said 's ls important that we foc on an anti- miscegenatn law than we foc on a votg rights law and a non- discrimatn and employment law and all the legal rights that are nferred by the state. ”Later the 2008 mpaign Obama returned to his recurrg theme that gay and lbian rights were sometim ed to distract voters om what they really ought to be votg on: enomic issu.

"Until Congrs pass legislatn repealg the law, the admistratn will ntue to fend the statute when is challenged the jtice system, " Schmaler and Attorney General Eric Holr changed their posn Febary 2011 when Holr announced the admistratn would not fend the nstutnaly of Sectn 3 of DOMA as applied to same-sex married upl the two s filed a feral appeals urtBut as of last summer Obama was still disappotg his gay and lbian supporters by repeatg his view that marriage was an issue for each state to ci. ”Obama replied “what you're seeg is a profound regnn on the part of the Amerin people that gays and lbians and transgenr persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our s, our iends, our -workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other Amerin. Supreme Court on Friday ma marriage for same-sex upl legal natnwi, clarg that refg to grant marriage licens to gay and lbian upl vlat the landmark lg will produce the most signifint change laws erng matrimony sce the urt stck down state bans on ter-racial marriage almost 50 years majory opn the 5-4 cisn was wrten by Jtice Anthony Kennedy.