One of these speakers is a former Republican president. He won his first presidential election by a 5-4 vote of Supreme Court justices and is known as one of the worst presidents in history. He went on to be elected president by voters in 2004 for some reason. George W. Bush endorsed a proposed Federal Marriage Amendment to the US Constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman only. He's an outspoken social conservative, supposed devout Christian (who inexplicably ordered torture of a lot of people as well as indiscriminate war against anyone he picked out of a hat) and has been caught paying Maggie Gallagher money to promote his right wing views on marriage.
The other speaker is our current President Barack Obama. A Democrat who signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes law, is working for the eventual end of the military's gay ban, and has ordered his DOJ to stop its defense of DOMA, a federal anti-gay marriage law, in court.
Some of these came from Bush in 2004-06. The others came from President Obama in 2008-2011. Can you match the statements with the speakers?
A)
"I believe that gay couples deserve the same rights as every couple in this country,"
B)
"...states ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others."
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A)
What we can do is form civil unions that provide all the civil rights that marriage entails to same sex couples. And that is something that I have consistently been in favor of.
B)
“I don’t think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that’s what a state chooses to do so,"
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A)
Asked to define marriage, [he] said it “is the union between a man and a woman.”
B)
...marriage ought to be defined as between a union between a man and a woman.
So which is Bush in 2004 and which is President Obama this year (and 2008?)