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Obama 1)Endorses 2)Gay Marriage: ‘I Think 3)Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married’

By Alex Altman | @aaltman82 | May 9, 2012 -Courtesy of Time Magazine 

(Video-Courtesy of the CNN) 原本的Video 已被移除，我重新上傳過了。

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his support for gay marriage, becoming the first 4)sitting U.S. President to endorse equal status for same-sex couples and responding to building pressure to clarify his position as his re-election campaign gets underway.

大意：隨著選舉的開跑與表明立場的壓力日增，歐巴馬在週三宣布他支持同性婚姻，因此成為美國首位在位總統公開為同性伴侶背書。

“I’ve always been 5)adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally,” Obama told ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview at the White House Wednesday afternoon. “Over the course of several years, as I’ve talked to friends and family and neighbors,” he said, “at a certain point, I’ve just concluded that, for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and 6)affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

大意：星期三下午在白宮一場訪問中，歐巴馬告訴ABC的Robin Roberts：「我一直堅信美國的男女同性戀朋友們應該被公平地對待。在過去的幾年，一直跟朋友、家人與鄰居的談話中，在某個時刻，我得到一個結論，那就是表明我支持同性婚姻的立場很重要。」

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