Edwards Campaigns To End Discriminaton Against Gays

John Edwards Campaigns to end discrimination against gays and lesbians
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwardssaid yesterday that he will end "discriminatory" policies towards gay people if elected.

Speaking in New Hampshire, he pledged to try to repeal the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), passed in 1996, that banned the federal government from recognising gay marriages or unions and allowed states to refuse to recognise same-sex unions from other states.

I think we should get rid of DOMA; I think DOMA was a mistake from the beginning, and discriminatory, and so I will do everything in my power as President to do that," he told reporters, according to the Washington Post. Yesterday the candidate told an audience of several hundred that he approved of New Hampshire's civil union law.

"The key is to have the federal government recognise civil unions between same-sex couples," he said.
Edwards also pledged to try to end the policy of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," also enacted by President Clinton, which bans openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from serving in the US military.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidates continued to compete for the anti-gay vote!


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Quotes from the GOP Candidates:

“Unless Moses comes down with two stone tablets from Brokeback Mountain to tell us something different, we need to keep that understanding of marriage.”
– Mike Huckabee

“It’s the acts, it’s the various acts that people perform that are sinful”
– Rudolph Giuliani on homosexuality

 “I don't want civil unions or gay marriage.”
 – Mitt Romney