President Barack Obama, who has pledged to remove the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military, will touch on the topic in his State of the Union speech Wednesday, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said. The substance of Obama’s planned remarks remains unknown. Levin added that the administration had asked him to wait
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Why LGBT people are vulnerable to ballot measures: The LGBT community lacks “a meaningful degree of political power” and is “politically vulnerable” to anti-gay ballot measures such as California’s Proposition 8, a political scientist testified on Wednesday at a federal court challenge of the marriage ban. As evidence of this lack of clout, Stanford University professor
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On Wednesday, March 18, 2009, Obama officially endorsed a United Nations gay rights declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality, the same measure which is previously rejected by former President Bush. This endorsement was the product of intense negative criticism by human rights and a number of other groups.