From the new White House web site:
President Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples. Obama also believes we need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions. These rights and benefits include the right to assist a loved one in times of emergency, the right to equal health insurance and other employment benefits, and property rights.
There’s lots of other LGBT stuff there as well, including this:
President Obama supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Got votes, Congressman Frank?
Isn’t the new site great? I’m blogging about it for Humans At Work tomorrow as a model of clarity and good communication strategy.
I hadn’t got to this part of the site yet, so thank you very much indeed for pointing it out. Off to read!
It is a very long time since anything to do with political promises made me cry with happiness.
Yes, me too.
I didn’t start out supporting Obama; but now I feel that I’ve never been so inspired by a leader’s example and behavior. I feel more hopeful and passionate about his presidency than I ever have felt about a president before. Honestly, I didn’t know I *could* ever feel this way about it.
Doesn’t mean I will always like his choices. But I absolutely like his approach and his process.
Oh, I’m sure he’ll end up doing things I’m unhappy with. But along the way I think he’ll end up doing a whole bunch of very good things too.
Thank you for posting about this. I hadn’t looked yet, and this actually makes me start to believe in him, sort of. I can fall back on all the things I know so far to grump about, thanks to Democracy Now and Mother Jones and such, grousing from the leftern margins with me. He can’t actually mean it, can he? If it actually happens I *will* cry with happiness. I might actually accept him with something other than cautious curmudgeonicity.