Loading ...The Democrats On The Issues: Gay Rights
May 6th, 2007 by Steve(Note: I’m updating this entry as time goes by. Maybe I should link it on the mainpage…)
I’m going to be doing a series on the Democratic candidates for President and where they stand on a variety of issues. While Iraq and healthcare are Teh Big Issues, I want to do the first few sections on some issues that get less play in the media. We’ll start with gay civil rights, which includes a variety of things from workplace discrimination, bias-motivated crime legislation, and marriage equality.
The first two are actually the easiest to tackle: the 8 announced candidates all support laws prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and expanding “hate crimes” to include sexual orientation. As far as I can tell, they’re all in favor of repealing DADT as well and are opposed to a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Where things get interesting is marriage equality aka legalizing gay marriage. I will mostly be basing this information off the candidates’ websites and outside sources when the sites are evasive. I will be working in reverse alphabetical order by last name.
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