Monday, June 24, 2013

Obama, at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, calls for LGBT rights

President Barack Obama, commemorating the 50th anniversary of a speech by President John F. Kennedy, told a crowd in Berlin last week that defending the rights of LGBT people is a defense of liberty for all

"Whether it's based on race, or religion, gender or sexual orientation, we are stronger when all our people -- no matter who they are or what they look like -- are granted opportunity," Obama said in the shadow of the historic Brandenburg Gate, where Kennedy during the Cold War told Berliners that he stood with them against tyranny.