Obama applauds
Supreme Court
decision on DOMA
Received at 8:48 a.m.. PDT
THE PRESIDENT SAID: I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law.
It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it.
We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
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