This is what President Obama said today about the federal government and marriage:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think gays and lesbians, uh, have a friend in the White House because I've consistently committed myself to civil unions, making sure that they have the ability to visit each other in hospitals, uh, that they are able to access benefits, uh, that they are, uh, have a whole host of legal rights that they currently, uh, do not have. Uh, I don't think that, uh, it makes sense for, uh, the federal government to get in the business of determining what marriage is, uh, that isn't, uh, traditionally the federal government's role.
I wonder if he even realizes that his parent's marriage occured in 1961, well before the Loving v. Virginia ruling struck down bans on interracial marriage in 1967. His parent's marriage would not have been recongized in several states until the federal government intervened.
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