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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.

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

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.

LRA BH: GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN SHOULD BE LEGAL

"Yeah, that will e, I thk, " she Bh lled gay marriage the "social issue" of her hband's send mpaign 2004. 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 SHOULD BE LEGAL, ABORTN SHOULD REMA LEGAL (VIDEO)

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.

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.

LRA BH: PRO ABORTN AND GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

LRA BH WANTS OUT OF GAY MARRIAGE AD

" 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 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. Larry Kg, Bh said she disagreed on gay marriage wh her hband,.

OPN: LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE AND ABORTN RIGHTS

of gay marriage] is g?

LRA BH SPLS WH HBAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

Bh first spoke about gay marriage.

she urged the print not to make gay marriage a signifint issue.

LRA BH SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, ABORTN

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. to gay and lbian upl.

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

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.

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

And 's a real, you know, reversal really for that to accept gay marriage.... “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.