Now President Barack Obama, as head of the Harvard Law Review.
It is President Obama's stated position that he believes marriage is between one man and one woman, however he did not lend support to Proposition 8 in Californa or Question 1 in Maine, although same sex marriage advocated say his silence on the marriage question in Maine a few weeks ago led to the law being repealed.
However back in 1996, Barack Obama wrote a piece in the Chicago gay publication Windy City Times, backing full same sex marriage.
What casts even more doubt that his stated position is his own is one piece of work from the Harvard Law Review. Entitled 'Sexual Orientation and the Law,' it is an academic piece that discusses various aspects of the law as it relates to LGBT people. It was first published in 1989, and then re-published in 1990 with an afterword added.
One of the sections (page 93-101) argued that the Courts and the legislatures should strike down or repeal laws barring same sex marriage and allow gay couples to marry, or at least access the full benefits of marriage. The rest of the section and of the book is a forcefull argument for full legal equality, well before its time.
The edition was published on the 1st of February, 1990; five days later, one Barack Obama became the Law Review's first African-American President.
No individual author is cited for the book, all that is put for the author is the somewhat alluring phrase; 'Editors of the Harvard Law Review.'
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