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Barack Obama: How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions.

On the recordJune 25, 2013
How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on the United States Supreme Court Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act

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