Over nearly two s polics, Print Obama has staked out changg posns on gay rights. Here are the biggt ton.
Contents:
- OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
- OBAMA ADMISTRATN FORMALLY SUPPORTS NATNWI GAY MARRIAGE
- THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
- THE OBAMA LEGACY: THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
- 'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
- OBAMA: GAY MARRIAGE LG IS 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
He has been clared Ameri’s “first gay print.” * obama gay marriage 2015 *
By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.
As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.
“Opposn to gay marriage was particularly strong the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he gdggly accepted the unsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his posn to support civil unns rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred unn’, ” Axelrod wr. As a ndidate for the Illois state senate 1996, Obama said he favored same-sex marriage rponse to a qutnnaire om a Chigo-area gay and lbian newspaper.
OBAMA ADMISTRATN FORMALLY SUPPORTS NATNWI GAY MARRIAGE
“The marriage bans challenged the s impermissibly exclu lbian and gay upl om the rights, rponsibili and stat of civil marriage, ” Solicor General Donald B.
The brief marks the first time the admistratn has formally ma a filg wh the high urt supportg s posn that bans on gay marriage should be clared unnstutnal natnwi. Verrilli strsed that throughout history lbian and gay people have enuntered numero barriers that have “prevented them om full, ee, and equal participatn Amerin life.
THE EVOLUTN OF THE NATN’S ‘FIRST GAY PRINT’
In May 2012, an terview wh ABC News, he announced his support for gay marriage. At his 2013 guratn he said, “Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law.
It’s a victory for gay and lbian upl who have so long for their basic civil rights. Print Obama, "the first gay print, " zig-zags on gay marriage over time. He has been clared Ameri’s “first gay print.
1996: While nng for the Illois Senate, Obama signs a qutnnaire for a gay Chigo publitn sayg he favors legalizg same-sex marriag. Print to mentn gays and lbians an gural addrs and champns same-sex marriage. 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.
THE OBAMA LEGACY: THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE
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.
'LOVE IS LOVE': OBAMA LDS GAY MARRIAGE ACTIVISTS HAILG 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
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.
OBAMA: GAY MARRIAGE LG IS 'A VICTORY FOR AMERI'
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.