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Barack Obama: LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights.

On the recordJanuary 26, 2011
LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on the Death of Human Rights Activist David Kato

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