Not sure what prompted this, but Al Gore has quietly released a video with a forceful endorsement of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. It pushes the Democratic establishment that much closer to a position he now shares with Eliot Spitzer and some other leading Dems, and is prompting a bit of grumbling in gay political circles that this batch of candidates aren't quite there.
"Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women -- to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage," he says on the video, which appears on his Current TV network. "Shouldn't we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to ones partner regardless of sexual orientation?"
Gore's words come after the leading presidential candidates have tiptoed up to, but not crossed, the line of support for same-sex marriage. All three support equal substantive rights for gay and lesbians couples, and they've sought to woo gay voters in other ways: Elizabeth Edwards has voiced her support for same-sex marriage, for instance, and Barack Obama recently scolded the black church for homophobia, in a speech to an African-American congregation.
Conservatives will have a Field day. But its a question of values. To push people away. To not let them have basic rights of creating contracts, making commitments to be with another till death. If we keep the homosexual community alienated, discriminated against; we keep them apart from the rest of the community. We will help breed the unhealthy behaviors of abuse, neglect, and self indulgence that comes from people feeling they have no reason to take care of themselves; the kind of behaviors that conservatives stand up and shamefully moralize about to in attempts to divide America.
Help contend conservatism and keep an eye out for any reaction to this... send it my way via a comment and share it with others. We want to expose the intolerance of conservatives if it should come popping up within the media.
This isn't about anything other than keeping the government out of peoples private lives and public rights.
Unfortunately giving homosexuals basic human rights has become one of the scare tactics conservatives use to divide people who have a common goal of getting people health insurance, getting decent educations to our kids, and bringing a sane foreign policy to the world. Don't let Conservatives divide us using one more political hobgoblin from their tool box.
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