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Thursday, June 7
Thursday, June 7 – "A First for a U. S. President" – Nancy Waldo
On May 9, 2012, the day after North Carolina voters enshrined anti-gay discrimination into their constitution, President Barack Obama made a historic announcement. At 3:00 p.m. in an interview with ABC’s news anchor, Robin Roberts, he said, in part, “It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.” In making his statement, Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to state publicly a position in favor of same-sex marriage.
And the Twitter world nearly flipped at the news that day, with a peak of over 7,000 Tweets per minute on the topic. With a total of 1.6 million same-sex marriage Tweets, it doubled the previous record, when New York’s Legislature voted on July 24, 2011 in favor of same-sex marriage.
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