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White House: No gay marriage shift for first couple
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 20, 2012 05:19pm |
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| Author | Byron Tau |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 21, 2012 05:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The White House is clarifying comments that first lady Michelle Obama made at New York City fundraiser, saying that she was not implying that President Obama's two Supreme Court nominees support gay marriage, nor was she endorsing same sex marriage on behalf of herself or the president.
"For the first time in history, our daughters and our sons watched three women take their seat on our nation’s highest court. And let us not forget what their decisions — the impact those decisions will have on our lives for decades to come -– on our privacy and security, on whether we can speak freely, worship openly, and, yes, love whomever we choose. But that’s what’s at stake. That’s the choice that we face," Obama said Monday.
Many progressives had hoped that the first lady was referring to same-sex marriage and pledging the White House to appointing justices who supported marriage equality — or endorsing it herself. But White House press secretary Jay Carney said she was in fact referring to the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman for federal purposes. |
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