Former V.P. (and President elect in 2000!) Al Gore speaks out for the right of gays and lesbians to marry on Current TV
Here is part of the transcript:
"I think it's wrong for the government to discriminate against people because of a person's sexual orientation. I think that gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women to make contracts, have hospital visiting rights, and join together in marriage.
I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage to allow it for gays and lesbians. Shouldn't we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one partner regardless of sexual orientation? Because if we don't do that, then to that extent you are promoting promiscuity and promoting all the problems that can result from promiscuity.
And the loyalty and love that people feel for one another when they fall in love ought to be celebrated and encouraged and shouldn't be prevented by any form of discrimination in the law."
- Vice President Al Gore
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Of course I'm pleased to see Al Gore support marriage equality, but his argument on behalf of gay marriage makes me nervous because it recapitulates the nefarious division between "good gays" and "bad queers" (as michael warner puts it) and uses marriage as a standard for measuring a person's moral worth and the worth of their relationships. The implication is that, once we allow gays to get married, those who choose not to are choosing promiscuity, dysfunction, and immorality. This is the argument that conservative gays like Andrew Sullivan make in favor of gay marriage, and it makes me quite nervous.
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