Posted on 03/11/2004 8:41:26 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
John F. Kerry is keeping a low profile in the gay marriage debate back in Massachusetts, but he has been far from silent about the issue on the presidential campaign trail, talking about it as a way of denouncing President Bush as a divisive leader.
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Who's hiding their record, John Boy?
Wow. If you're 40 and you're just figuring out what you want to sleep with, you've got bigger problems than being a Democrat. I mean, repressing desires is one thing...but not even knowing what they are?
What MA did was find 4 judges who ordered a fundamental change in the building block of civilized society. Not much state involvement there.
What with Full Faith and Credit, it's difficult to have this mean different things in different states. So a Constitutional Amendment, in which three-fourths of the States must OK it, and all the states would have some invovlements seems to fit what Kerry is asking for.
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Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1) |
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A Record of Working on Behalf of Gay and Lesbian Americans
With a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign since 1995, John Kerry is a powerful voice in the ongoing fight for civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans.
Preventing Hate Crimes | |
John Kerry is an original cosponsor of the Hate Crimes Prevention bill, which would extend federal jurisdiction over serious, violent hate crimes. These would include crimes motivated by sexual orientation. Hate crimes rose a disturbing 3.5% from 1999 to 2000.
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Ending Discrimination | |
One of John Kerrys first acts as a U.S. Senator, in 1985, was to introduce a bill prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He supports passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and has adopted a nondiscrimination policy for his Congressional offices based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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John Kerry cosponsored the first Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act (CARE) - which represents the largest discretionary federal investment in treating individuals with HIV and AIDS. Kerry also sponsored the Vaccines for the New Millennium Act, aimed at boosting contributions to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a non-profit group working to promote development of an HIV vaccine in 2000. Kerry introduced the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria Act, which would increase the U.S. governments funding of international HIV/AIDS efforts from approximately $1.7 billion in 2003 to $1.9 billion in 2004. This effort led to the unanimous passage in May 2003 the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria Act of 2003. AIDS activists characterized Kerry as one of Congresss top leaders on HIV/AIDS policy.
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Protecting Gay and Lesbian Families | |
John Kerry believes that same-sex couples should be granted rights, including access to pensions, health insurance, family medical leave, bereavement leave, hospital visitation, survivor benefits, and other basic legal protections that all families and children need. He has supported legislation to provide domestic partners of federal employees the benefits available to spouses of federal employees. He was one of 14 Senators -- and the only one up for reelection in 1996 -- to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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Lifting the Ban on Gays in the Military | |
John Kerry opposed the Clinton Administrations Dont Ask Dont Tell Policy He was one of a few senators to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee and call on the President to rescind the ban on gay and lesbian service members.
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John Kerry supports same-sex civil unions so that gay couples can benefit from the health benefits, inheritance rights, or Social Security survivor benefits guaranteed for heterosexual couples.
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Kerry sounds like he has a brain wedgie.
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On the one hand, citizens continue to be free to move to whichever state best suits their chosen lifestyle.
Unfortunately, there's Article IV, Section I, where each state has to recognize the public acts, records, etc. of the others. I think that's what Congress was trying to solve with the Federal Marriage Act (or whatever the current law is called).
Regardless, any such "Federal benefits" you have in mind, e.g. Social Security benefits, are likely unconstitutional. That's the real problem coming back to bite us on the backside. If this nation hadn't strayed so freakin' far from what was intended, "Federal benefits" wouldn't be an issue.
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