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President Barack Obama spoke Saturday at the annual fundraiser for the gay-activist Human Rights Campaign (HRC).

The president told the crowd he supports the gay activist agenda.

"When you look back on these years," he said, "you will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognized relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman."

Obama promised that he would end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Clinton-era policy that allows gay men and women to serve in the armed forces as long as they don't reveal their sexual orientation.

Robert Knight, senior writer for Coral Ridge Ministries, said the president is simply trying to please a powerful and vocal constituency.

"Homosexual activists learned long ago that if they scream loudly and often, they get more of what they want," he said. "So even if they get 95 percent of something, they say, 'What have you done for us lately'?"

The president also promised to pass hate-crimes legislation and repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

He said those who uphold marriage between one man and one woman, "hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes."

"That would be the Bible," said Knight. "All people who think it's normal and natural for marriage to be between a man and a woman, the president of the United States is saying that's old and outworn." Steve Jordahl with FOTF reporting.