Presidents

If we'd had same-sex marriage, we would have had one more slaveholder president. 


James Buchanan's domestic partner (for more than 10 years) was a slaveowner.

Young James Buchanan

It is not just the fact that Buchanan never married, but rather from his close friendship with Alabama Senator (and later Vice-President) Rufus King and the openly affectionate correspondence that the two men carried on. Buchanan was openly teased both in and out of earshot about his relationship with King, and he made some very curious statements about that relationship. Coincidentally, King was the only bachelor Vice-President. The two men were virtually inseparable and were rumoured to be lovers. They shared a house and a bedroom.