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Friday, February 06, 2004
Kerry takes a stand (sort
of). The great thing about being John Kerry is that you can
always be consistent with something you've said. In
today's Boston Globe, Susan Milligan reports
that the Massachusetts senator may support an amendment to the state
constitution that would ban same-sex marriage. Writes
Milligan:
Asked if he would support
a state constitutional amendment barring gay and lesbian
marriages, Kerry didn't rule out the possibility. "I'll have to
see what language there is," he said.
And, in fact, such a position is
consistent with his oft-stated support for civil unions but
opposition to gay marriage. But, as I pointed
out yesterday, it's
inconsistent with the strong pro-equality statements he made in 1996,
when he was one of just a tiny handful of senators to vote against
the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
This is probably the smart
political stance for Kerry to take if he wants to have some chance of
being elected president.
But it's still depressing as
hell.
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