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Posted on Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 08:08:00 AM EST
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Sen. Barack Obama today wrote a letter to stating he opposed a ban on gay marriage.
In a letter to San Francisco's Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club, the presumptive presidential nominee said he opposed "the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution" and similar efforts in other states.
Good on Obama. He's not afraid to change his mind.
Obama is skating gingerly past his previous position on the issue.
The Illinois senator has said repeatedly that he believes marriage should be only between man and a woman. When the California Supreme Court overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage in May, Obama released a carefully nuanced statement saying he respected the court's decision, believed states should make their own decisions on marriage and "will continue to fight for civil unions as president."
We're behind Obama on this one, all the way.
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Posted on Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 09:19:27 PM EST
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Despite the contrary opinion of the Bush adminstration and conservatives, gay marriage is now legal in California. The state began issuing licenses today.
CA, MA and 48 more to go.
Update: Picture swapped for a more cheery one, at the suggestion of ByTheFault.
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Posted on Fri May 16, 2008 at 07:03:00 AM EST
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As Big Tent wrote earlier ,the California Supreme Court Thursday overturned a law banning gay marriage (opinion here, pdf). Glenn Greenwald has some terrific analysis on what the decision means and doesn't mean. In a nutshell, from the Washington Post,
Marriage is a "basic civil right" guaranteed to all Californians, "whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples," Chief Justice Ronald M. George wrote in a 121-page ruling. He repeatedly said the ruling was based on the California court's first-in-the-nation decision in 1948 to end the state's prohibition on interracial marriage, nearly 20 years before the U.S. Supreme Court took the same action.
The ruling becomes effective in 30 days unless a stay is granted.
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama issued similar bland statements on today's decision: [More...]
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Posted on Sun Jun 24, 2007 at 08:54:27 PM EST
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In San Francisco today at the Gay Pride event, Elizabeth Edwards endorsed gay marriage:
"I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me," Mrs. Edwards said at a news conference before the parade started. "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."
John Edwards supports civil unions but not gay marriage. Why? According to Elizabeth,
He has a deeply held belief against any form of discrimination, but that's up against his being raised in the 1950s in a rural southern town."
I don't like that excuse. He seems to have broken the chains of the rest of his southern taboos, why not this one?
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