Less than a month after President Obama repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” his Justice Department filed its latest brief defending the so-called Defense of Marriage Act – the law that makes gay Americans second-class citizens by outlawing federal recognition of their legal marriages.
This action underscores the point that the battle over gay rights is just beginning.
As Obama was preparing to sign the repeal legislation late last month, I was granted the first ever one-on-one interview with him as president by a journalist from a news outlet for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
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