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What Kerry thought of gay marriage in 1996
Now that John Kerry is running for president, he wants you to think that while he supports “equal protection” for gay and lesbian couples, he’s opposed to gay marriage. His record says otherwise. In fact, John Kerry has previously made statements showing he’s a radical liberal in favor of the whole homosexual activist agenda.
In 1996, Kerry wrote an article for the gay magazine The Advocate in which he called the Defense of Marriage Act “unconstitutional,” “unnecessary,” “mean-spirited,” and “malicious.” Kerry was on record saying that every state in the union should be required to recognize gay marriage if one state’s courts decided it should exist there, as happened in Massachusetts. He likens the fight for gay marriage to the civil rights battle and fights against interracial marriage bans.
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.” This is the essence of the American pursuit of happiness and the core of the struggle for equality.
We are then treated to the usual self-referential litany, where Kerry proclaims everything important about himself, boring his audience with the same tired anecdotes of his personal history. “When the Senate debated the outrageous ban on gays in the military, I knew firsthand from my tours of duty in Vietnam the bravery and distinction with which gay soldiers served their country.” Did Kerry serve in Vietnam? Why am I just hearing about this?
“When AIDS emerged as the most devastating epidemic we have seen in centuries, I knew as the father of two young daughters that all young people would need to educate themselves to prevent infection,” he says. Do you have to be the father of two young daughters to understand the danger of AIDS? And why does that understanding require federal funding?
Unbelievably, Kerry then appeals to his colleague from Massachusetts, Rep. Gerry Studds, as an authority. In 1983, Studds was censored in Congress for having sex with a male congressional page. Despite that, he was re-elected six times until he retired in 1995. (His district included the gay enclave of Provincetown.) Shamelessness has no face when homosexuality is involved, evidently. Like Jim McGreevey after him, Studds got a pass for his peccadilloes while those enaged in the old-fashioned kind of affairs were forced out of office. (Remember Bob Packwood? How about Newt Gingrich? Or the guy who name I can remember who was nominated for Speaker of the House before Dennis Hastert?) In any case, it shows Kerry’s tone-deafness that he would appeal to Studds’ comments as he pandered to gays.
But now Kerry has a wider audience to please, an audience that includes a majority of voters who don’t want gay marriage and so he must adjust his policy position in order to get elected. But gays shouldn’t worry too much—I’m sure he’ll flip flop back their way if he gets elected.
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COMMENTS
Why does this waffling suprise anyone? I have come to expect it.
He is as laughable as Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine. Except it is now Kerry vs. Kerry.
WMD vs. no WMD
Gay marriage vs. no Gay marriage
Send troops vs. no Sent troops
This is just par for the course. I think that he plays golf….I know that he hunts pheasant and wind surfs and anything else he has to do to prove that he is a man. Notice that Bush doesn’t do that?
Kerry doesn’t suprise me….he is a fool.
Cam
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/16/04 at 02:47 PM There was a great article in the Pilot this week by Michael Pakulak about Kerry’s flopping around on abortion.
I wonder if Kerry witnessed any abortions in Vietnam. Or thought about the issue in Vietnam. Or knows any Vietnamese people who support abortion. There must be SOME way to tie the abortion issue to Vietnam!!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/16/04 at 08:00 PM Can anyone give me a list of what this man has accomplished in public office? His forte seems to be shameless pandering to the latte-sippin’ liberal crowd.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/17/04 at 03:41 AM It’s amazing how he can work Vietnam into any discussion of any subject. He was once asked what he likes to eat, brought up his fondness for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and explained that he had to eat a lot of PB&J in… Vietnam. (I’m not making this up.)
This is reminding me of the first Austin Powers movie, when Austin is cracked out of a big chunk of ice and is still sort of “stuck” in the late 1960’s. John Kerry seems to be similarly missing a few decades from his consciousness.
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