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Barack Obama on Same Sex Issues
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• Obama believes in gay equality. • He is a supporter of civil unions, but not same-sex marriage. • Obama believes that the same-sex marriage issue should be decided by individual states. • In January 2008, Obama addressed homophobia in the African-American community. He was speaking to 2,000 worshippers on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at one of the nation’s premier black churches, Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King once preached. He stated, “If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community, we have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them.” |
