There’s a snippet of Kerry’s latest public remarks that I find encouraging:
Most in the audience cheered, but [Sen. John Kerry’s] questioner was not satisfied.
“My point is homosexuality is an idea,” she said. “You have never heard a doctor say, ‘Mr. and Mrs. John Doe, you have a bouncing baby homosexual.’ It’s an idea.”
Mr. Kerry replied: “Well, I know the deep beliefs, I respect, I’m a Christian, I’ve read the Bible, and I know you can find the clauses that go both ways. I’m not here to argue that with you.”
He continued: “The only point I want to make to you is, I’ve talked to enough people–some of whom fought for their country in war–and I’ve talked to many of them who didn’t discover their own sexuality until they were 35, 40 years old, and it wasn’t because they made a choice, it was because they found out who they were. And I think you have to respect that that is the nature of it. And you can look at it, and argue it, but you know what, that’s irrelevant to the argument. American citizens deserve the protection of the equal protection clause.”
Kerry’s position on gay marriage is still to be scrutinized, but these remarks demonstrate one of the things leader is supposed to do: educate, not discriminate.
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That makes me feel better about Kerry.
And I thought his earlier comments to the same questioner, who was decrying comparisons between the gay rights movement and the civil rights struggle for African-Americans, in which comments Kerry talked about the similarities between racism and antigay hate crimes, also were pretty powerful.
A Reason to Choose Kerry
Via Rebel Prince. Kerry’s position on same sex marriage may need some work (or maybe he knows what he needs to say in order to stand a chance at getting elected), but remarks like these show that he’s miles ahead