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'
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- PUT PROPOS CONSTUTNAL BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- AXELROD: OBAMA MISLED NATN WHEN HE OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE IN 2008
- THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY: 'I AM JT NOT VERY GOOD AT BULLSHTG'
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * presidents against gay marriage *
To highlight the long road that has been for gay rights activists we took a look at where the anti-LGBTQ polics started and unfortunately the homophobia has polil roots.
Wh this rmatn about how racist Johnson is we gather that if gay humans were allowed to be out this time perd that Andrew Johnson would surely fight their abily to have equal rights.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* presidents against gay marriage *
Born as Thomas Woodrow Wilson, this polician and amic served as the 28th Print of the Uned Stat and passed some laws that vastatgly punished a homosexual liftyle, specifilly the armed forc. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson signed the Immigratn Act of 1917 that barred dividuals emed “mentally fective” or those who displayed a “nstutnal psychopathic ferry” om enterg the Uned Stat; both of which were medil terms for homosexualy at the time. His abily to ignore what was a very real problem at the time of his princy leads to believe that he would do the same wh gay rights if they had been prevalent at the dawn of the century.
PUT PROPOS CONSTUTNAL BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE
Many gay rights advot were upset wh Reagan’s abily to pletely ignore the AIDS epimic that had taken thoands of liv by the end of the 1980’s to which his admistratn rpond that sce homosexuals and dg addicts were dyg of the disease they were simply “gettg what they jtly serve. Almost exactly one year later Nixon went on the rerd as sayg that homosexualy led to the fall of the Ancient Greek empire and that certa more gay iendly parts of San Francis where he refed to shake hands wh rints. The Print stated that if he found out his grandchild was gay he would let them know that a gay liftyle wasn’t natural and would talk them out of beg gay rights activists.
He has been a nstant opponent of gay rights sce his days as Governor and even let a Texas bill die that would protect Amerin cizens om hate crim agast their race, relign or sexual orientatn simply bee he did not want to protect gay and lbian Texans. Siarly, after the Boy Suts of Ameri famoly passed a law that forced them to allow gays to their troops Bh spoke out agast the law cg that was a private anizatn that had a right to refe entry. 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.
"(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.
AXELROD: OBAMA MISLED NATN WHEN HE OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE IN 2008
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.
He offered an explanatn that would prage his 2012 shift: "I thk that is an issue that I wrtle wh and thk about bee I have a whole host of iends who are gay partnerships.
“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. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.
THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.
“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.
"The print do oppose same-sex marriage, but he supports equaly for gay and lbian upl, and benefs and other issu, and that has been effectuated feral agenci unr his ntrol, " Whe Hoe adviser David Axelrod said today on MSNBC. Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L. Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.