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Originally Posted by lambeburger
That tweet accompanying the audio disingenuously portrays the bill as specifically about gays to be allowed to visit their dying partners in hospital when it wasn't. |
Actually it was. The only real benefits afforded by the proposed 1989 law were visitation rights for domestic partners and bereavement leave for city employees in the event that their domestic partner passed away.
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Looks like our 2018 blinders are on again. Social attitudes towards homosexuality have definitely come a long way in a short time. Friendly reminder that Obama was against gay marriage only ten years ago. Is he a deplorable too because he held that position?
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Obama supported gay marriage as far back as the mid-90s. He tempered that later on in order to appear as moderate as possible, but it's pretty clear what he actually believed. And he always supported civil unions which granted pretty much the same benefits as marriage, so that's a far cry from what Kenney is bragging about.