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Breaking News of the Day: Obama Backs Gay Marriage: [UPDATED] President Obama has publicly announced his support for gay marriage in an interview today with Robin Roberts.

I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or Marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Obama, who is the first U.S. president to openly back gay marriage, had come under fire this week for remaining mum on the subject after Joe Biden and Arne Duncan publicly declared their support. The president’s announcement comes a day after North Carolina voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that bans marriage equality.

Obama’s interview will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday. Excerpts will air tonight on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer.

[abc]

Between living in Gettysburg and being a student of the Civil War, I am no stranger to all different types of commemorative monuments and memorials. My discovery today, however, is different from any I’ve seen. This memorial, located in Middleburg, Virginia, where a small but important cavalry battle took place on June 19, 1863, does not honor the human soldiers of the Civil War, but instead the 1.5 million horses and mules who lost their lives in our nation’s bloodiest fight.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

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