"I have to tell you that
over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and
neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly
committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising
kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or
sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even
now that 'don't ask, don't tell' is gone, because they are not able to commit
themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I've just concluded that for me
personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex
couples should be able to get married."
US President Barack Obama - May 9, 2012
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