WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama says the nation has made important strides in providing the LGBT community with equality and justice, but more work is needed.
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At this year’s Pride Reception, Obama is expected to address the North Carolina law which restricts transgender people’s use of public bathrooms. Obama won’t pressure Sanders to quit, aides say, and will offer to help Sanders continue pressing for the progressive ideas he espoused in the campaign. “Securing the gains that this country has made requires perseverance”. We have to work hard to make sure that jobs are not being denied, people aren’t being fired due to their sexual orientation.
‘It was a powerful symbol here at home, where more Americans finally felt accepted and whole, and that their country recognized the love that they felt. “It doesn’t make sense to them”.
He said: “Together, we’ve proved that change is possible, that progress is possible”. “Boxer at her office this morning and then we had the privilege of riding on the Senate Subway with her as she went to the Capitol Senate Chamber to meet with the other Senators as they headed to a joint session of Congress with the President of India”, Moon wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday.
Obama also reflected on the decision to light up the White House in rainbow colors on June 26, 2015 in honor of the Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide as “one of the most special moments of” his presidency.
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He said their future efforts must include fighting on behalf of all those who suffer discrimination, not just members of the LGBT community.
