Obama says he couldn’t avoid urging US Supreme Court to overturn California gay marriage ban

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says there was no way he could avoid urging the Supreme Court to overturn the state of California’s ban on gay marriage. Obama says the U.S. is going through the same type of evolution he has gone through about gay marriage.

He says he has concluded the U.S. can’t discriminate against gay couples and he felt it was important to express his views to the court.

He says the California law provides no basis for treating gay couples differently, other than they are not heterosexual.

Obama spoke at a White House news conference the day after his administration on Tuesday filed a friend-of-the-court belief calling on the court to strike down California’s Proposition 8 ballot measure on the ban.

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