Saturday, June 27, 2015

Watch Obama's phone call to same-sex marriage plaintiff

Posted by Anup Baral June 27, 2015 :
President Obama called Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the same-sex marriage Supreme Court case, after his landmark win.

President Obama called Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the case. "Your leadership on this has changed the country," Obama told Obergefell over the phone, a moment captured on air on CNN. "I couldn’t be prouder of you and your husband." "I can’t even put it into words. It’s stunning," he said when asked about the phone call. "To have the President say something like that to me is not something I ever dreamed of."

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