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Wolf Blitzer interviewed Edwards and asked him if homosexuality is immoral.
Edwards said that he does not share that view.
Complete transcript here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/...
by zesty the lemon on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 05:22:06 AM PDT
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did Clinton say Homosexuality was immoral? My guess is that she and Edwards are just about identical on the issue, but she is not talking about it.
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by TeresaInPa on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 05:25:27 AM PDT
like Clinton. Afraid.
Obama Mum on Gay "Immorality" Barack Obama joined Hillary in courting gays and lesbians by calling for the rollback of "don't ask, don't tell" -- without wanting to directly refute General Pace's comment that homosexuality is "immoral." Newsday caught Obama as he was leaving the firefighters convention and asked him three times if he thought homsexuality is immoral. Answer 1: "I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has restricted his public comments to military matters. That's probably a good tradition to follow." Answer 2: "I think the question here is whether somebody is willing to sacrifice for their country, should they be able to if they're doing all the things that should be done." Answer 3: Signed autograph, posed for snapshot, jumped athletically into town car. Why the dance? Maybe it has something to do with not wanting to alienate moderates -- or social conservatives, the churchfolk who view homosexuality as a sin. Glenn Thrush
Obama Mum on Gay "Immorality"
Barack Obama joined Hillary in courting gays and lesbians by calling for the rollback of "don't ask, don't tell" -- without wanting to directly refute General Pace's comment that homosexuality is "immoral."
Newsday caught Obama as he was leaving the firefighters convention and asked him three times if he thought homsexuality is immoral.
Answer 1: "I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has restricted his public comments to military matters. That's probably a good tradition to follow."
Answer 2: "I think the question here is whether somebody is willing to sacrifice for their country, should they be able to if they're doing all the things that should be done."
Answer 3: Signed autograph, posed for snapshot, jumped athletically into town car.
Why the dance? Maybe it has something to do with not wanting to alienate moderates -- or social conservatives, the churchfolk who view homosexuality as a sin.
Glenn Thrush
by david mizner on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 06:28:44 AM PDT
gay marriage?
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by hestal on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 06:44:03 AM PDT
And it sounds like he's asking himself that. He sounds like he realizes that his discomfort with the idea of gay marriage is largely an instinctive relic of his upbringing. Which he shares with most Americans over 30 or so. He's said, I believe, that it is something he is "working on." Meanwhile he says he supports total equality short of using the word "marriage." This is not an inherently unreasonable position, just not sustainable if you think through it too far, and I think Edwards will at some point acknowledge that and support marriage. We shall see; I for one am willing to give him time to work it out for himself, given how far in the right direction he has come already.
When civilizations clash, barbarism wins.
by Allogenes on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 07:30:16 AM PDT
finally realize that the Constitution is for everybody, even those people who were hated by those who spoke from the pulpits and in the Sunday School classes of his childhood. It is not a hard thing to say that those Southern Baptists of those days were wrong then and they are wrong now.
But if Mr. Edwards has not come to his senses by election time then he is, in my view, unqualified to become President. The oath of office requires the President to protect and defend the Constitution and the rights it gives all Americans. One size fits all when it comes to the Constitution and the American Way. Right now Edwards is on the wrong side of history and equality. He and the Southern Baptist Church are wrong constitutionally.
by hestal on Thu Mar 15, 2007 at 07:39:38 AM PDT
wide narrow
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