{"id":17302,"date":"2015-07-06T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=17302"},"modified":"2015-07-06T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:34:14","slug":"same-sex-marriage-performed-at-obamas-white-house-before-they-were-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=17302","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage performed at Obama’s White House before they were ‘legal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama speechwriter reveals secret same-sex marriage at White House<\/h1>\n
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By Caitlin Dickson
\nYahoo News<\/p>\n

During a special presentation of the popular live storytelling podcast \u201cThe Moth Radio Hour\u201d at this year\u2019s Aspen Ideas festival, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett<\/a> shared a story about how, years before gay marriage would become legal nationwide, he secretly performed a same-sex marriage at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others,\u201d Lovett said, according to a writeup in Saturday\u2019s Playbook<\/a>. If you\u2019ve spent any time in Washington, you know that the desire to help others is optional, and for members of Congress, it\u2019s frowned upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lovett, who also previously served as Hillary Clinton\u2019s speechwriter during her time in the Senate as well as her first presidential campaign, worked for President Obama for three years before leaving Washington for Hollywood in 2011. He co-created the short-lived NBC comedy \u201c1600 Penn,\u201d became a producer on HBO\u2019s \u201cThe Newsroom\u201d and is currently working on a new politically minded series for Showtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remembered that I worked at the White House, and I could give tours any time I want,\u201d Lovett recalled in Aspen. So he decided to use that privilege to carry out a supersecret operation: performing a first same-sex marriage at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve and Justin and I walked through the double doors into the ground floor of the West Wing, past the Situation Room, down the hall past the offices of the [National Security Council], up the stairs by the Cabinet room and the Oval Office, through the doors of the Colonnade that connect the offices of the West Wing to the stately rooms of the residence, and we turned right down the stone path that jutted into the Rose Garden, and then I said, \u2018Steve, do you take Justin to be your lawfully wedded husband? And Justin, do you take Steve?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very nervous. They were nervous because they were getting married. I was nervous because I snuck into my boss\u2019 house to perform a wedding against his wishes in his backyard,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can say what you will about the first same-sex marriage at the White House, at the very least, it was quite rude.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kissed modestly,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd then I filed the paperwork \u2014 the only real evidence that this took place, because I had to list the address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama speechwriter reveals secret same-sex marriage at White House By Caitlin Dickson Yahoo News During a special presentation of the popular live storytelling podcast \u201cThe Moth Radio Hour\u201d at this year\u2019s Aspen Ideas festival, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett shared … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}