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Presidential Royalty for Gay Marriage

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The Republican great-granddaughter of former president Herbert Hoover has come out for same-sex marriage on FoxNews.com, of all places.
Margaret Hoover, the young conservative commentator and Fox News contributor, penned a column urging fellow Republicans to support gay marriage, linking the cause to the push to legalize interracial marriage in the 1960s. Hoover timed the column to the current federal trial in San Francisco that will decide whether California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution.
"Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers," Hoover writes. "Does it sit well with you that because of their sexual orientation, a factor outside one's control, that they should have less rights and protections in the eyes of the law?"
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