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Clinton blasts Bush's gay marriage attack
Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network ^ | Oct 14 | Eric Johnston

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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush43; hillary; hillarysorientation; homosexualagenda; marriageamendment; prisoners
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The Senator certainly seems to be taking this issue personally, doesn't she?
1 posted on 10/15/2003 7:09:35 AM PDT by presidio9
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2 posted on 10/15/2003 7:13:13 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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"The country is in great danger," said Kunst, "and Hillary is only Democrat that can defeat Bush."

If the godless left thinks the country is in 'great danger' it is a sure sign that God is at work, and that President Bush is doing well. Thank You, Lord!

3 posted on 10/15/2003 7:13:48 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Have you prayed for your President today?)
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To: presidio9
Yeah...seems she might want another "First Lady" when she ascends to the throne.
4 posted on 10/15/2003 7:14:02 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: presidio9
Two gay guys;


5 posted on 10/15/2003 7:14:16 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (On October 11, 2003 I asked Laura Earl to be my wife. "Well sure, I mean, I guess", was her answer.)
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To: presidio9
Of course she is! She's for any group that doesn't have members her husband is interested in having non-sex with.
6 posted on 10/15/2003 7:14:46 AM PDT by Egon (I collect spores, molds, and fungus...and other Liberal artifacts.)
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To: presidio9
Sadly, I have to agree that a constitutional ammendment banning gay marriage is a bad idea. If an idividual state wants to legalize gay marriage, then they should be allowed to go right ahead. That's my simple take on the matter.
7 posted on 10/15/2003 7:15:09 AM PDT by T.Smith
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this will be the issue of 2004 and the reps will be swept in again bigtime
8 posted on 10/15/2003 7:16:24 AM PDT by petercooper (Proud member of the VRWC)
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To: T.Smith
The problem is reciprocity between the states. Utah, wanting to be true to its predominant Mormon values, won't be able to deny the marriage of the gay couple who move in... and in... and in as these people seem to do to the more conservative areas of the country.
9 posted on 10/15/2003 7:18:08 AM PDT by pgyanke ("The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God" - C.S. Lewis)
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To: T.Smith
So, when you move from a gay state to a straight one, is your gay marriage voided?


Sorry, this one's too big a can 'o worms for states rights. No ground can be given to the buttsex crowd.
10 posted on 10/15/2003 7:18:41 AM PDT by presidio9 (Countdown to 27 World Championships...)
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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.

I couldn't be happier either. I can't imagine anything that will alienate the mainstream voters more. You go Hildabeast girl...er guy...er whatever.

11 posted on 10/15/2003 7:20:00 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: presidio9
Stand by your ???? I'm trying to figure out what these homosexuals are denied? It looks like the end game is not to get screwed by your own...property rights etc.. However, these things can be overcome by holding property under existing laws. Health insurance? Yeh, when they contribute their fair share of what is being spent on Aids!!
12 posted on 10/15/2003 7:20:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: petercooper
I think you're right. If Iraq and the economy are not the issues, this will take center stage.
13 posted on 10/15/2003 7:21:29 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: presidio9
Gay? Queers? As the saying goes: "You are what you eat".
14 posted on 10/15/2003 7:23:13 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Guns!)
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To: presidio9
There were all those rumors about Hell-ery and other women.
Caught carpet munching in the WH . . . Yada Yada . . . Caught swimming and eating in the pool at camp david Yada Yada . . . Bubba's famous quote repeated in Playboy.
Hell-ery loves to switch hit it seems.
15 posted on 10/15/2003 7:23:53 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Why Davis Orders Shredders - - To Destroy Evidence of Fund Raising Felonies!)
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To: presidio9
She needs to try to get Dick Morris back. He could have told her the winds are not blowing THAT way among the public right now.

It may get her a lift with the people who already adore her, but it will further alienate her from the rest.
16 posted on 10/15/2003 7:25:03 AM PDT by altura
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It may get her a lift with the people who already adore her, but it will further alienate her from the rest.

Every time a conservative buddy gets too worried about Hillary, I feel compelled to remind him or her that for every liberal who worships her, there are at least as many people who truely DESPISE her. There are plenty of people who will go to the polls for no other reason than to vote against her.

17 posted on 10/15/2003 7:29:59 AM PDT by presidio9 (Countdown to 27 World Championships...)
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To: presidio9
Her roots
are showing
18 posted on 10/15/2003 7:39:18 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: isthisnickcool
I think they're called "Vageterians".
19 posted on 10/15/2003 7:44:37 AM PDT by BubbaBasher (Diversity is something that should be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: presidio9
Pennsylvania legislators voted to not recognize homosexual marriages. One legislator told me it would open an enormous and chaotic legal mess if they had not voted
that way. Now they all know we do not recognize it. I do not think they reversed it. I think he was concerned about chaos in wills and estates.
20 posted on 10/15/2003 7:45:38 AM PDT by oldironsides
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