Barack Obama tends to become incoherent when discussing gay rights. During the campaign he said he supported equal rights for gays but also that marriage should be "between a man and a woman". He opposed both same-sex marriages and a law that bars them, California's Proposition 8. He favoured repealing both "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", which keeps gays from serving openly in the armed forces, and the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), which created a federal definition of marriage.
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