Candidates for Gay rights?

Huckabee: On his final stretch of campaigning before the Christmas holiday, Huckabee underlined his lifelong opposition to abortion and gay marriage, issues that will likely drive many churchgoers to the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa. He spent Saturday traveling the western edge of Iowa, the most conservative part of the state, where Romney and another rival, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, campaigned late last week. "It's not because I don't like them," Huckabee said of gay people. "It's because I like even more the idea that the heart and soul, the essence of our civilization is in the family. It's not in the government. It's not even in some institution, not even the church. Before there was the church, and before there was government, there was family. "When you mess with the design, you end up messing with results," he added. "We can't afford to do that. That's why you will never hear me waver."

How does that make any cense? Has he ever taken a history class? If he is going to make reference to pre-Christian history someone should remind this guy that before the church declared it a sin homosexuality was not only excepted in most cultures but expected in some.


Bill Richardson: As Governor, Bill Richardson has expanded anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation, signed into law the state's first hate crimes legislation for acts including those based on sexual orientation, and provided state health insurance for domestic partnerships. He supports domestic partnerships and worked hard to secure them in New Mexico in a special session this year. His legislation failed by only one vote and he will fight for domestic partnerships again in the next legislative session.

He says he supports equal rights but yet he voted for the defense of marriage act. So what else has he lied about?

Barack Obama: “I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided,” Obama wrote in his recent memoir, The Audacity of Hope. On a recent interview he did come out in suport for cival unions in a underhand kind of way.

He ought to know, as a civil rights attorney, that granting LGBTQ Americans only the right to civil unions violates our full constitutional right. Not to mention the “Ex-gay” speaker he had at one of his fundraisers was in really poor tastes.

Rudy Giuliani: Rudy Giuliani believes marriage is between a man and a woman. He does not -- and has never -- supported gay marriage. But he believes in equal rights under law for all Americans. That's why he supports domestic partnerships that provide stability for committed partners in important legal and personal matters, while preserving the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.

Equil right but not equil marage… sound like theres a bit of confusion on the definition of the word Equil to me. He supported Gay rights in New York signing domestic partnerships into law but now he says he would not suport it on a federal leval. Is he sidestepping to get elected? I, for one, am not willing to take that chance no matter what he did in New York.

So is there any candidate who stands up for gay rights on every level with out sidestepping or compromising? Yes, one. Any body know who it is? No its not Hillary.

Mike Gravel: supports same-sex marriage and oppose both the Defense of Marriage Act and the military's 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' legislation. In his own words: (As to same-sex marriage:) “This country – and this world – needs more love. Love trumps morality, morality trumps politics.”

I could not have said it any better my self. To bad he is last in the pools and I have yet to find someone who has even heard of him. But that’s the way it goes I guess stand up firm for something rather than going with the flow and you get shot down. It would be cool if we could change the flow of things though don’t you think? I encourage any one reading this to forward it to every one you know (even people you don’t ha ha) let see if this really is the internet age!