Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
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finalized a rule revoking an LGBTQ-inclusive antidiscrimination policy for organizations that receive grants through the agency.
This includes organizations that provide adoption and foster care placements as well as those handling a variety of health care services.It rescinds a policy put in place when Barack Obama was president, barring grantees from discriminating on the basis of sex, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and requiring them to recognize the validity of same-sex couples’ marriages.
HHS said the policy interferes with faith-based groups’ free exercise of religion. But its revocation opens the door to discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, those who follow a religion different from the grantee’s, or others who.
