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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

News Obama loves gays.

Posted By on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Or, well, he supports Gay Rights at least — and he plans to let the world know.

The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.

The official added that the United States was concerned about "violence and human rights abuses against gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual individuals" and was also "troubled by the criminalization of sexual orientation in many countries."

"In the words of the United States Supreme Court, the right to be free from criminalization on the basis of sexual orientation 'has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom'," the official said.

Read the rest of this Associated Press article here.

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