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Revealed: White House hosted secret gay wedding without Obama knowing
Former presidential speech writer Jon Lovett reveals he used his White House access to sneak two gay friends into the Rose Garden where they were married in a secret ceremony
Former speech writer for President Barack Obama turned Hollywood screenwriter Jon Lovett has revealed that he helped two gay friends get married on the grounds of the White Hose without the president’s knowledge.
Lovett made the claim at the Aspen Ideas festival in an interview with The Moth Radio Hour podcast which is yet to be released online.
In the podcast Lovett recounts sneaking friends ‘Justin’ and ‘Steve’ into the White House under the guise of giving them a tour of the building.
But when they got to the Rose Garden he performed their wedding, filing their paperwork with the address 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – the famous street address of the President of the United States’ official residence.
‘We were very nervous,’ Lovett reportedly told the Moth Radio Hour.
‘They were nervous because they were getting married. I was nervous because I snuck into my boss’ house to perform a wedding against his wishes in his backyard.’
‘You can say what you will about the first same-sex marriage at the White House, at the very least, it was quite rude.’
Lovett said that Justin and Steve ‘kissed modestly’ after the ceremony.
Lovett left the Obama Administration towards the end of 2011 – before Barack Obama publicly ‘evolved’ his view on same-sex marriage so it is likely that the wedding took place while the president was still publicly opposed to gay marriage.
Lovett was a writer and producer on the television shows The Newsroom and 1600 Penn and wrote many of the jokes in President Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner addresses during his time working for the administration.
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Andrew Potts
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