The leftists won't dare let that clause see the light of day...because admitting that truth of our law would mean that New York and California would have to recognize Alabama and Vermont's gun rights and/or state concealed carry permits.
Posted on 10/15/2003 7:09:34 AM PDT by presidio9
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., lambasted President Bush for supporting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and her comments boosted a grassroots campaign pressing her to run for president in 2004.
Sen. Clinton made her most extensive comments to date on the anti-gay marriage amendment Thursday in New York City at a fund-raiser for the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), a nonpartisan civil rights and political advocacy organization for the state's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Clinton predicted the amendment will be at the "center of the presidential election next year" and will be used by people "who try to drive wedges between Americans."
She noted that the push for the amendment represents the first time an attempt is being made to amend the Constitution to specifically deny rights to any group of individuals.
Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of ESPA, told the Gay.com/PlanetOut.com Network he "couldn't have been happier" about Clinton's remarks.
"It's always great when a United States senator with such prominence as Hillary Rodham Clinton stands up for a community that's been marginalized as much as the gay and lesbian community," said Capelle.
Capelle said Democrats are beginning to understand that if a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage moves forward, it could ultimately hurt their campaign fund-raising efforts. If the amendment passes both chambers of Congress, it would then be put to voters in the 50 states.
"It will force large contributors in the gay and lesbian community to decide whether they want to put money toward candidates or to fight statewide campaigns, which would leave Democratic coffers, which are traditionally underfunded, even more sparse," said Capelle.
During her remarks, Sen. Clinton said the anti-gay marriage amendment is also being used to distract Americans from the nation's real problems.
"They'd rather talk about taking away rights and undermining the ability of Americans to live their own lives, to have their own families," said Clinton, "than to talk about the miserable economy, to talk about their miserable foreign policy, to talk about their rollback of environmental laws and workers' rights, education and health care!"
Robert Kunst, president of Hillarynow.com, who has started a grassroots campaign to convince Clinton to run for president in 2004, said he's pleased Clinton is "standing on the issue, because no one else is."
The longtime Florida gay activist wants Clinton to run for president because he believes she is the only Democrat capable of beating President George W. Bush. Clinton has said she is not planning a 2004 presidential bid.
Speaking from his cell phone while driving to a meeting with Broward County, Fla., Democrats, Kunst said on Tuesday he launched a campaign to put Clinton on the Democratic primary ballot in New Hampshire as a write-in candidate.
"The country is in great danger," said Kunst, "and Hillary is only Democrat that can defeat Bush."
I'm going to have to plead ignorance here. It looks like I don't know enough about the issue to offer a lucid opinion, just a knee-jerk abhorrence of constitutional amendments.
LOL ! ...
The leftists won't dare let that clause see the light of day...because admitting that truth of our law would mean that New York and California would have to recognize Alabama and Vermont's gun rights and/or state concealed carry permits.
Count me in. Savage is our Morford.
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