Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Out Florida Rep Seeks to Repeal State's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
filed a bill Monday that would remove all provisions in Florida law related to marriages between same-sex couples, truly establishing equal rights for all couples.One doesn’t have to dig far into Florida history to see how changeable public opinion has been on the issue of marriage.
It was just in 2008 that Florida voters passed a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
It passed the same day Barack Obama won the state and presidency, but he was opposed to marriage equality at the time as well.Obama evolved over his first term and ultimately filed a brief in support of courts ruling for marriage equality (after a notable nudge from his vice president, now president-elect, Joe Biden).
