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How Straight Marriage’s Evolution Led to Obama’s Gay-Marriage Endorsement

To Have and to Hold

Obama’s support for same-sex matrimony sparked a political firestorm, but it wasn’t a historical game changer.

Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz
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Stephanie Coontz

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