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Originally posted by Rudey
That platform is outdated and refers to Kerry being the best possible president frequently.
Also, this document gives the basic political statement that serves no purpose. It says marriages should be defined through state rights. The Democrats have refused to say they support gay marriage without any attached footnotes. Some say that through a combination of this ambivalence and a push by some Democrat politicians towards being accepting of it, many undecided and non-aligned voters voted for Bush. You can believe it if you want or just reject it.
At the end of the day, people like IowaStatePhiPsi can't say Republicans are against gay marriage and Democrats support gay marriage. Cheney very much support his lesbian daughter who was heavily involved in his campaign and the Log Cabin Republicans are the gay Republican wing. Each political party pulls together different viewpoints.
We can get back to the topic at hand, but it's funny how IowaStatePhiPsi consistently posts this garbage even after the fricking election is over.
-Rudey
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Let's go a step further, and see if we can get a response . . .
Democrats, I hate to say this, but the Democratic Party pretty much tacitly denied the rights of gays to have marriages by copping out with the "state's rights" angle. They know as well as I do that marriages are not implicitly a states' issue, according to the courts, because of the national need for standardization. Instead, they clung to a quasi-constitutional excuse for not platforming at all.
Even worse, in doing this, they allowed a large number of states to ban gay marriages on election day, a point in which they had zero to negative momentum. They essentially cost homosexual men and women in these states the ability to achieve the rights that straights have.
Now, was this an error of commission or omission? Obviously it was more likely omission, but honestly I think that, in pragmatic terms, if I were a gay man looking for the ability to engage in a civil union, I would be just as heated at the Dems as the GOP.
I'm a Republican, and I'm very much in favor of allowing gay couples to be recognized as legally married. Weird huh.