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Obama declaring National Equality Day? It’s not happening
It seems like a lovely idea but no, President Barack Obama has not declared 26 June to be National Equality Day.
The report quickly spread Monday (6 July) after USA Today and several LGBTI sites picked up a week old story from the satirical site National Report which also currently has a story posted claiming Donald Trump has been named goodwill ambassador to Mexico.
The false story quoted Obama as saying: ‘I will be urging congress to honor the LGBT community with a federal holiday, until then I will issue by executive order declaring June 26th, 2016 National Equality Day.’
The bogus story was quickly revealed as false by the site Joe. My. God.
June 26 is the day last month when the US Supreme Court made same-sex legal in all 50 US states. It was also on that day two years earlier when the high court gutted the Defense of Marriage Act and allowed the overturning of California’s Proposition 8.
There is a Change.org petition touting a National Equality Day but it has so far failed to catch fire with less than 150 signatures as of Monday.
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Greg Hernandez
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