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Thursday, August 12, 2004

UPDATE:

Apparently, back in 1996 Kerry wrote an article condemning the DOMA and was published in the gay newsmagazine The Advocate.

Among the excerpts:

Echoing the ignorance and bigotry that peppered the discussion of interracial marriage a generation ago, the proponents of DOMA call for a caste system for marriage. I will not be party to that. As Martin Luther King Jr. explained 30 years ago, "Races do not fall in love and get married. Individuals fall in love and get married."
...
We will win this fight for civil rights. We will win the fight for equal protection under the law. We will win the right for all Americans to live with whom they love without the fear of discrimination and violence. I learned from the struggles of the ‘60s and ‘70s that the wheels of progress turn slowly.

Sounds to me a lot like he wants the Courts to do his dirty work.

The Advocate also contains a 2003 interview with Kerry in which he states he is opposed to gay marriage, but states that the Courts may make law, and ducks the question of whether he would oppose any such court ruling. He also ignores his earlier hyperbole about the Full Faith and Credit Act (see my earlier entry related to the California Supreme Court) by agreeing that recognition of gay marriage by one state would make the issue a state by state battle.

Kerry also states he 'had a sense' that some of his fellow G.I.'s in 'Nam (question -- is a sailor a 'GI'?) were gay, and that some of his good friends today are gay.

Sigh. Substitute 'black' for 'gay' and you might understand how this could be conceived of as, well, patronizing.

Kerry also drags out the QuotaBeast, saying that, since there are no openly gay members of the United States Senate, the gay community had an obligation to stand up for it's rights.

That's the same argument many Democrats make to Black Americans (unless, of course, the Black American is someone like J.C. Watts, who is merely a tool of the Man).

What an idiot.

Back to work, deadlines and all.
- posted by MrSpkr @ 16:18

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