President Obama thundered to the throngs at the recent LGBT Leadership Council fund raising bash in New York, "I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every couple in the country." This was not hyperbole that he had to shout to one of the country's most prominent, and influential gay rights groups to get gay activists off his back about his opposition to gay marriage. Despite the withering heat he has taken for that opposition, Obama has been the best friend that gays have ever had in the White House.

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