{"id":7931,"date":"2011-06-27T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2011-06-27T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:00:23","slug":"pres-obama-says-gay-couples-deserve-same-rights-as-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7931","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Says Gay Couples Deserve Same Rights As All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; While praising New York state lawmakers as they debated legalizing gay marriage, <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> stopped short of embracing it. Instead he asked gay and lesbian donors for patience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country,&#8221; the president said at a Manhattan fundraiser, his first geared specifically to the gay community. Thursday&#8217;s long-planned event coincidentally occurred as lawmakers in Albany were debating legislation that would make New York the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said progress will be slower than some people want, but he added that he was confident that there will be a day &#8220;when every single American, gay or straight or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, is free to live and love as they see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; While praising New York state lawmakers as they debated legalizing gay marriage, President Barack Obama stopped short of embracing it. Instead he asked gay and lesbian donors for patience. &#8220;I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in this country,&#8221; the president said at a Manhattan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}