Gay marriage -- bigots or cynics, take your pick

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
Date: June 7, 2006 12:10:30 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Gay marriage -- bigots or cynics, take your pick

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_go_co/gay_marriage_14

"The Republican leadership is asking us to spend time writing bigotry  
into the Constitution," said Sen. Edward Kennedy  of Massachusetts,  
which legalized gay marriage in 2003. "A vote for it is a vote  
against civil unions, against domestic partnership, against all other  
efforts for states to treat gays and lesbians fairly under the law."

In response, Hatch fumed: "Does he really want to suggest that over  
half of the United States Senate is a crew of bigots?"

Would he rather we think that they are not bigots at all, but only  
cynics who exploit the bigotry of others to win elections so that  
they canpush the issue again in 2008?  Which is worse?


Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation



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