Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. “I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” Obama told Axelrod, after an event where he stated his opposition to same-sex marriage
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Jun 25, 2014 · Chad Biggs, left, and his fiance, Chris Creech, say their wedding vows in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Friday, October 10, after a federal judge ruled that same-sex marriage can begin there.
Same-sex marriage has come to the front of debate as voters go to the polls to elect a new president in Costa Rica on Sunday. The issue has become one of debate in the predominantly Roman Catholic state after a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled in January that same-sex couples
Same-sex marriage in the United States was initially established on a state-by-state basis, expanding from 1 state in 2004 to 36 states in 2015, when, on June 26, 2015, same-sex marriage was established in all 50 states as a result of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the landmark civil rights case of Obergefell v. Hodges, in which it was held that the right of same-sex
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He fought for same-sex marriage for years — and set himself on fire to protest global pollution.
On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constitution in all 50 states. Prior to their decision, same-sex marriage was already legal in 37 states and Washington DC, but was banned in the remaining 13.
Read the entire transcript of the speech President Obama gave after the historic Supreme Court decision granting marriage rights to same-sex couples