Obama Responds to Gay Rights Question at Town Hall

At a town hall in Tampa, Obama is asked what he's doing to provide equality for gays and lesbians with regard to same-sex marriage and other rights. The President completely dodged any talk of marriage but talked about the bill to provide federal benefits to same-sex partners.

Here's my transcript.

"As I said last night my belief is that a basic principle in our Constitution is that if you're obeying the law, if you're following the rules, that you should be treated the same regardless of who you are.

"I think that principle applies to gay and lesbian couples, so at the federal level one of the things that we're trying to do is to make sure that partnerships are recognized for purposes of benefits, so that hospital visitation for example is something that is permitted, so that social security or pension benefits or others, that same-sex couples are recognized in all those circumstances.

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