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You've heard the news: Bush Plans To Back Marriage Amendment—that's right, a Constitutional provision to deny a class of humans full rights of citizenship such as we haven't seen since the Three-Fifths Provision.
Well, fuck that shit: Take action via MillionforMarriage.org, the pro-gay-marriage site of the Human Rights Campaign.
So far no reaction from the John Kerry camp. Here's his GLBT page, where he lists support for civil unions. I don't expect that to change after he gets the nomination (not to be presumptive or anything), because he wants to appeal to Middle America/Swing Voters/Shame-Faced Homophobes/Twits. (Not to be judgemental or anything.)
Sure there's been action. Kerry's against gay marriage. He's in favor of civil unions. He wants Massachusetts' amendment banning gay marriage to pass. He would, presumably, be against Bush's favored amendment, which would nuke every domestic partnership in the country.
Fucker really makes it hard to vote for him, doesn't he?
Posted by: --k. at February 11, 2004 02:42 PMWhat bothers me most about him is: On the one hand, Ed Gillespie's right, Kerry is the most liberal Senator from Massachusettes—YET that status means really nothing. When it comes to a hot issue like war in Iraq or gay marriage, Kerry plays both sides against the middle. He triangulates.
Sigh. Yet even that is still so much better than what we have right now. I just wonder if his ambiguities will play well when compared against Bush's "moral clarity" (coughcoughcoughcoughcough—hack—tooey), which, thankfully, is beginning to look like what it is, a not-so-bright guy's mulish determination to go against the weight of all evidence.
Posted by: Kevin Moore at February 11, 2004 02:49 PM