NY Times: On gay rights and policies, Obama lets senior staff take lead

By Brody Levesque | Filed: Friday, December 30, 2011


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By Brody Levesque"President Obama has long relied on his oratorical gifts to ease him through tricky political situations. But on the emotionally charged issue of gay rights, Mr. Obama has been content recently to let his lieutenants do the talking. And they have said some striking things," reported Mark Landler, Senior White House Correspondent for The New York Times, on Friday.







On Gay Rights, Obama Lets Surrogates Lead

By MARK LANDLER | Published: December 30, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/us/politics/on-gay-rights-obama-lets-surrogates-take-the-lead.html?_r=1

 
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Geneva.


HONOLULU — President Obama has long relied on his oratorical gifts to ease him through tricky political situations. But on the emotionally charged issue of gay rights, Mr. Obama has been content recently to let his lieutenants do the talking. And they have said some striking things.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of diplomats in Geneva this month that "gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights." In an interview in November, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of housing and urban development, said that he was proud to support the right of same-sex couples to marry.