Lra Bh: Gay Marriage ‘Is Comg’

Contents:

• LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN
• LRA BH OPENS UP ABOUT DISAGREEMENTS WH HBAND ON GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN
• LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN SHOULD BE LEGAL
• LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL, ABORTN SHOULD REMA LEGAL (VIDEO)
• LRA BH: PRO ABORTN AND GAY MARRIAGE
• LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE ‘IS COMG’
• LRA BH WANTS OUT OF GAY MARRIAGE AD
• OPN: LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE AND ABORTN RIGHTS
• LRA BH SPLS WH HBAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN
• LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE GROUP 'SORRY' BH WANTS OUT OF GAY MARRIAGE ADS
• GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTER LRA BH WANTS OUT OF THIS PRO-GAY MARRIAGE AD

LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN

May 12, 2010— -- Former first lady Lra Bh has broken wh her hband on the premier social issu of his admistratn and said she backs gay marriage and more than eight years of silence on the ntroversial issu, Mrs.

Bh said an terview wh CNN's Larry KgTuday, that gay marriage and abortn were pots of ntentn wh her hband, former Print Gee W. Bh recent weeks has been promotg her memoir "Spoken om the Heart, " which she wr about her life both before and after beg first rponse to a qutn about gay marriage, she said, "There are a lot of people who have trouble g to terms wh that bee they see marriage as tradnally between a man and a woman.

And 's a real, you know, reversal really for [them] to accept gay marriage, " she Kg asked if she uld accept gay marriage, the first lady said: "I thk we uld, yeah. "Yeah, that will e, I thk, " she Bh lled gay marriage the "social issue" of her hband's send mpaign 2004.

LRA BH OPENS UP ABOUT DISAGREEMENTS WH HBAND ON GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN

In Febary of that year, weeks after a Massachetts urt led same-sex upl uld marry that state, her hband endorsed a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex Bh and Gee Bh Disagreed on Abortn, Gay MarriageThe ex-first lady also told Kg she believ abortn should rema legal, an opn she suggted she held on the Print Bh's first day office the day of Gee W. Neverthels, her speakg out for marriage equaly shows that more and more Amerins realize all fai need the same rights and protectns, " said Michael Cole, spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. Former First Lady Lra Bh expound on her acceptance of gay marriage on CNN's "Larry Kg Live" this week, explag why she disagre on the issue wh her hband and why she thks public opn on the issue will change over time.

In the new memoir she is promotg, "Spoken om the Heart, " Bh says she asked her hband to rea om makg gay marriage a signifint 2004 mpaign issue. "We have, I remd him, a number of close iends who are gay or whose children are gay, " she wrote, as quoted by Poli.

Bh, who is well-known for his opposn to gay marriage and abortn. "The former first lady stated she uld accept gay marriage and she believ the legalizatn of same-sex marriage will eventually occur the Uned terview on "Larry Kg Live" was to promote her new book Spoken om the Heart.

LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN SHOULD BE LEGAL

In the book, she hted of her support for gay marriage but did not make her stance clear until the terview. "I had talked to Gee about not makg gay marriage a signifint issue" the 2004 printial mpaign, Bh wrote. "We have, I remd him, a number of close iends who are gay or whose children are gay.

C., legalized gay Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post. Former First Lady Lra Bh ma a surprisg tack away om two of the most five social issu of her hband's princy this week, tellg CNN's Larry Kg that she backs gay marriage and abortn rights.

LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE LEGAL, ABORTN SHOULD REMA LEGAL (VIDEO)

Speakg on Kg's show earlier this week, Bh said this about gay marriage:I thk that we ought to fely look at and bate . I thk there are a lot of people who have trouble g to terms wh that bee they see marriage as tradnally between a man and a woman, but I also know that when upl are mted to each other and love each other that they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone then asked her if she thought that the legalizatn of gay marriage was g, to which Bh replied, "Yeah, will e, I thk. Michael Cole, spokman for gay rights group the Human Rights Campaign rpond:"When the right wg was g same-sex upl as electn year pawns and the print llg for a cynil nstutnal amendment to ny people rights, we would have weled support om the first lady.

LRA BH: PRO ABORTN AND GAY MARRIAGE

Durg the terview she mak clear that she supports gay marriage and – some circumstanc – a woman's right to choose abortn. Larry Kg: Gay marriage, you tell the book that durg the 2004 mpaign you talked to Gee about not makg a signifint issue. And 's a real, you know, reversal really for that to accept gay marriage.

And then I thk gay marriage was the social issue 2004. Durg their chat, he asked her about gay marriage. I unrstand totally what Gee thks about marriage beg between a man and a woman, and ’s a real, um, really, reversal of that to accept gay marriage … ”.

Lra Bh: Gay Marriage ‘Is Comg’.

LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE ‘IS COMG’

Lra Bh was apparently ught off guard this week when she was featured a TV ad support of gay marriage. Bh also told Larry Kg that she disagreed wh her hband on the issue of gay marriage. The ad also clud sound b om past TV terviews wh former Secretary of State Col Powell and former Vice Print Dick Cheney, as well as Print Obama's claratn last month's gural addrs that gays and lbians mt be "treated like anyone else unr the law.

" Neher Obama nor Cheney support a feral statute for gay marriage. In an terview last May wh ABC's Rob Roberts, Obama endorsed gay marriage but said was "an issue that is gog to be worked out at the lol level, " and that had not historilly "been a feral issue.

LRA BH WANTS OUT OF GAY MARRIAGE AD

Lra Bh may not have been very vol about how she felt on gay marriage or abortn when her hband was print, but the former first lady is talkg now.

On gay marriage, she told CNN show host Larry Kg: ‘When upl are mted to each other and love each other, then they ought to have, I thk, the same sort of rights that everyone has.

’ ‘I thk we uld’ accept gay marriage, she ntued. In supportg gay marriage, former.

OPN: LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE AND ABORTN RIGHTS

Larry Kg, Bh said she disagreed on gay marriage wh her hband,. of gay marriage] is g? Bh first spoke about gay marriage.

she urged the print not to make gay marriage a signifint issue. animated the mpaign was gay marriage, ” Bh wr.

makg gay marriage a signifint issue. number of close iends who are gay or whose children are gay. The year was pivotal for the gay.

LRA BH SPLS WH HBAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

to gay and lbian upl. Proposn 8 – California's gay. Foc on the Fay, a group opposed to gay rights, nounced Lra.

Bh's posn on gay marriage, llg “disappotg. high-profile Republin to back gay marriage. Lra Bh says she supports gay marriage and a woman's right to choose, and thks a law allowg the former "will e" due time.

In the book, she wr that she asked her hband not to make gay marriage a signifint issue durg his 2004 re-electn mpaign. And 's a real, you know, reversal really for that to accept gay marriage....

LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN

“In 2004 the social qutn that animated the mpaign was gay marriage, ” Mrs. “Before the electn season had unfold, I had talked to Gee about not makg gay marriage a signifint issue. We have, I remd him, a number of close iends who are gay or whose children are gay.

His role the ceremony was regnized as clear support for the marriage, makg him the most recent printial nvert to now accept gay marriag.

LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE GROUP 'SORRY' BH WANTS OUT OF GAY MARRIAGE ADS

"I personally thk is very fe for gay people to be married civil ceremoni, " he said. That law banned feral regnn of same-sex marriage – a prohibn led unnstutnal June 26 by the Supreme Court – and allowed stat to ignore marriage certifit issued other stat for gay upl. Bh's wife, said a May 2010 terview wh Larry Kg she believ gay and lbian upl should have the right to marry.

Bh unrstood his wife's approval of marriage-seekg gays and abortn-seekg women, but that if he had not unrstood , she would have ma existence of a secret, rebell ner life for Lra Bh has long been speculated upon—often by liberal women, who held out an otherwise unacuntable sympathy for her. She supports gay marriage; her hband advoted a nstutnal amendment banng .

There are some subversive mblgs Spoken om the Heart: Sympathy wh the civil rights movement, a requt that her hband rea om makg anti-gay policy central to his mpaign, even femism. Lra Bh: Gay marriage ads that began nng Wednday also clud clips of Print Barack Obama, former Vice Print Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Col Powell talkg favorably about same-sex marriage. 20, 2013 that the former first lady wants to be removed om a pro-gay marriage group's natnal advertisg mpaign featurg proment people speakg on the topic.

GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTER LRA BH WANTS OUT OF THIS PRO-GAY MARRIAGE AD

A pro-gay marriage group will replace ads that clu former first lady Lra Bh speakg on the topic wh a new ad this weekend after Bh said she did not want to be part of s Rpect for Marriage Coaln said Thursday that appreciated Bh's prev ments, "but are sorry she didn't want to be clud an ad. "The aln ma up of more than 80 anizatns supportg gay marriage said the ad was part of "a public tn mpaign that will now move to new and different voic that reflect the pth and breadth of our support. "After the aln released s statement Thursday, MacDonald said Bh would have no further, whose dghter Mary is gay, said a speech at the Natnal Prs Club 2009 that he supports gay marriage but believ that stat, not the feral ernment, should make the cisn.

" Obama's quote me om his gural addrs this year durg which he said, "Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law. Craig Stowell, who says that after fdg out that his brother was gay he "wanted the same rights for him. The former First Lady is takg issue wh Rpect for Marriage's $1 ln ad mpaign, sistg that her name and image be removed bee, well, bee she says article is om the archive of our partner whole pot of a new $1 ln marriage-equaly media blz om the Rpect of Marriage Coaln is to show that Republins like Dick Cheney, Col Powell, and Lra Bh support gay marriage — that 's not a partisan issue.

The origal clip qutn om a Larry Kg terview wh Bh 2010, when she said she would disagree wh her hband's stance on gay marriage:Here's the key Lra Bh quote up for bate: I thk that we ought to fely look at and bate . Ined, she's beg labeled a hypocre: Lra Bh: "I'm fe wh gay marriage but don't you dare tell anyone!