Obama's Wife Vows Support For Gay Rights

Michelle Obama Tells Group Husband Will Fight For Equality

(AP)  Barack Obama will fight for equal rights for gays just as he fought to help working-class families overcome poverty, the Democratic presidential hopeful's wife told a gay Democratic group Thursday.

Recalling his past work as a community organizer to help struggling families, Michelle Obama said he would take the same approach as president.

"Barack believes that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where together we work to reverse discriminatory laws," she said at a Manhattan fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council.

Michelle Obama also drew a connection between the struggles for gay rights and civil rights.

"We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect union," she said at the event, held days before the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots between gays and New York police, and the city's annual gay pride parade.

"The world as it is should be one that rejects discrimination of all kinds," she said.

Touting her husband's record pushing for workplace discrimination legislation as an Illinois state senator and his support of civil unions, Obama noted her husband also had brought a call for equality to conservative groups, telling churchgoers they need to combat homophobia in the black community.

The Illinois senator opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and says states should make their own decisions on the matter. He has said he's interested in ensuring that same-sex couples in civil unions get federal benefits.

His Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, also opposes a federal constitutional amendment but worked to ban gay marriage in his home state. McCain supports the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, while Obama has called it "counterproductive."

Michelle Obama's speech brought a standing ovation from the crowd of about 200 donors, who raised about $1.3 million, organizers said.

Earlier Thursday, she spoke in Manchester, N.H., and credited Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband's rival for the Democratic nomination, with bringing the concerns of working families to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

She heard from New Hampshire women juggling such work and family concerns as child care and caring for aging parents. She explained her husband's plans to expand sick time and paid family leave, help parents afford child care and make sure women get equal pay for equal work.

"We are closer to this America than ever before, and that's because of an extraordinary woman who's not in this room but she's traveling with my husband tomorrow, and that woman is Hillary Clinton," Michelle Obama said to sustained applause.

"I know that the folks here in New Hampshire know this better than anyone because you got to know the candidates up close and personal, but because of Hillary Clinton's work the issues of importance to women and working families are front and center."

Clinton and Barack Obama are to make their first public joint appearance Friday in Unity, N.H.

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[longduck69]

Larry Craig is voting for Obama!

[voltaire333]

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT KILLING CHILDREN AND RAPING VIRGINS?

"Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves." Numbers 31:7-18 NLT

WHAT ELSE DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT RAPE?

"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT

"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife." Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB

[voltaire333]

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT KILLING CHILDREN AND RAPING VIRGINS?

"Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves." Numbers 31:7-18 NLT

WHAT ELSE DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT RAPE?

"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT

"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife." Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB

[kmccliment]

Will they fight for Larry Sinclair''s gay rights?

[rowdywicca]

Like I said, Michelle Obama would come out in favor of kiddie porn if it would get dipwad elected!

[realpatriot1]

Blackshaft,

If you''ve paid any attention to the news in the past few years you would know that the Sodomites are mostly Republican elected officials. From Mark Foley to Larry Craig to Dennis Hastert, the GOP is in no position to accuse others of what only they have done.

Even Clinton waited til they were 18. We''ve seen that many Republicans don''t have that high of standards.

[rowdywicca]

Like I said, Michelle Obama would come out in favor of kiddie porn if it would get dipwad elected!

[voltaire333]

Michelle Obama will give the childs rights to the Sodomites to spend every night!
Posted by BlackShaft at 05:44 PM : Jun 28, 2008

Thanks, you are a perfect example of why people like Jankenbenz are pure evil. They create and encourage the likes of bigots like you!

[minnick8-2009]

By the way, CBS, you could have found a more flattering picture of Michelle.