You know, for the life of me, I have been reading these postings for days, and I still can't understand the furor over Governor Richardson's remarks at last week's HRC/LOGO forum. I am about as liberal as a person gets, and for me the concept is simple...everyone was created equal, and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights...that should be it. Settled law , baby.
And I personally think that the marriage issue is a separation of church and state one. My feeling is what is doable politically right now is to make civil unions legal between all loving couples, with all the rights and obligations of marriage. Leave it up to the churches, synagogues, temples and mosques to sanction "marriage." Eventually we'll get there as a society, but we're not there yet. Soon (not soon enough for me), but not yet.
I have to ask this question though, and I know it isn't going to be easy for many of you to answer, it wasn't for me. Do we want a candidate who simply says whatever the audience of the day wants to hear? There's a difference between campaigning and governing. It's easy for a lot of the other candidates, especially those who are far back in the polls, to appear at these events. For Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel -- all they need to do is to talk the talk.
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