The choice of John perez to take over as the new speaker of California's state assembly later this month has been hailed as something of a breakthrough-but only because Mr Perez is openly gay.

选择john perez在本月晚些时候成为加州州参议院的新任发言人，这一决定曾被视为某种突破——只是因为他公开的同性恋身份。

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Obama acknowledged that blacks and whites had different views of the state of the problem, but said the answer was openly confronting those differences to bring the country together.

奥巴马承认黑人和白人对问题的状态有不同的观点，但是他说，答案是，公开地面对这些分歧，把国家团结起来。

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Stambaugh, openly gay, said that he was not, adding that it would be illegal for him to be married in the state of Oregon because he “would choose to marry another guy.”

斯丹博，一个很坦率的同性恋者，说他没有，并补充说在俄勒冈州他要结婚那是不合法的因为他“将会选择一位男同性恋结婚。”

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This is not something that people will be willing to state openly.

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"We wish to state openly that we believe that there is no place for violence in the name of religion or politics, " the family said.

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