Rather than getting busy raging against a man who had the guts to speak at the GOP convention on behalf of John McCain, why not compile a list of bad policy and stupid quotes from Obama and Biden?
Posted on 09/11/2008 12:37:55 PM PDT by Liz
New York Post
9/27/00
DEVLIN BARRETT
Candidate 2000 Al Gore said that gay foreigners in a "civic union" with US citizens should have the same immigration rights as heterosexual married couples. "The rights that are afforded an American who gets married to someone from another country should be afforded under a legally protected civic union in the same way," Gore said. The Democratic presidential candidate's proposed policy shift would be blocked under the Defense of Marriage Law signed 1996.....for all federal purposes, including immigration, marriage is defined as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife." Paula Etthelbrick, family policy adviser to the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said the Defense of Marriage Law "would have to be amended or be repealed entirely.
INS spokesman Bill Strassberger said gay couples get no special preference, as married couples do, adding that was explicitly barred by the marriage law. When Gore was asked about the law last February, he said: "I favor legally recognized civic unions that have the legal protections" of marriage. Asked if those benefits would extend to the INS, which usually grants green cards to foreign spouses of US citizens, Gore's response was that gay couples in "a legally protected civic union" should have the same immigration rights as married couples.
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Pretty soon, the libs will be promoting beastiality sodomy.
Will be? That's a done deal.
Ask Bill Clinton---he experienced puberty in Arkansas---what else do you need to know?
Rather than getting busy raging against a man who had the guts to speak at the GOP convention on behalf of John McCain, why not compile a list of bad policy and stupid quotes from Obama and Biden?
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