Al Gore comes out in video in support of full gay marriage rights

Thursday, January 24. 2008

You go Al!

" I think it's wrong for the government to discriminate against people because of that person's sexual orientation. I think that gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heteroseuxal men and women... to join together in marriage"

"I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage to allow it by gays and lesbians? Shouldn't we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one's partner regardless of sexual orientation?"

View the video above for more of the former Vice-President's comments on same-sex marriage rights.

If only the candidates for US president also believed in freedom and equality for ALL Americans . Oh wait, Dennis Kucinich does.

And don't bother checking the candidate's websites to find out where they stand on queer issues because they've made great efforts to hide their positions in most cases. If you want to find out go to Google and search their (try candidate name + gay or similar term). Most of the sites have no search feature on their sites but they have pages buried deep in their site that Google can easily extract.

One exception is Kucinich who makes his LGBT positions explicit and within just a few clicks off the home page (Issues, Liberty, Rights). ists LGBT rights which Also, check out this Pew survey on how Americans feel about gay marriage.

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