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Tue Jan 22, 2013, 11:06 AM Jan 2013

Family Research Council Slams Obama Speech: LGBT People Already Have Enough Rights

By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:23 EST

A spokesperson for the Family Research Council says that President Barack Obama was wrong to link LGBT rights to the civil rights movement because “homosexuals already have all the same civil rights as anyone else.”

CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Tuesday asked Family Research Council senior fellow Peter Sprigg if there was anything that he liked about Obama’s second inaugural speech.

“The statement that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, that was the best thing about it,” Sprigg opined. “And it was not too long.”

“Sometimes that’s a dis too,” O’Brien noted. “Like, well, at least it was short.”

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Why does that hate group get any air time at all?? Initech Jan 2013 #1
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