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GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
Bh utned agast cricizg gay upl, sayg an terview on "This Week" that you shouldn't cricize others "until you've examed your own heart. " Bh had wad to the revalized same-sex marriage bate last week -- if only barely -- a ment to a reporter Zambia, who asked whether gay marriage nflicts wh Christian valu. "I meant 's very important for people not to be overly cril of someone else until you've examed your own heart, " Bh told story went on to note that "As print, Bh opposed gay marriage, and Republins phed ballot measur to ban at the state level.
Meanwhile his vice print, Dick Cheney, opposed the nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage that was a popular ia among social nservativ at the time. ''As Republins seek to fd a new way forward the wake of the Supreme Court cisn strikg down DOMA, 's worth rellg that one equently discsed proposed path -- backg civil unns but not full marriage equaly -- would jt take the GOP back to where s succsful printial ndidate was , the more nservative ndidate who lost where Bh won, opposed both gay marriage and civil unns picture wh Bh was hardly one of straightforward support for gay unns, of urse.
At the same time, he benefed om an aggrsive state-by-state mpaign to turn out evangelil voters opposed to givg gay unns the same standg as heterosexual on. And tight rac, those voters -- who historilly have leaned heavily Republin -- may have tipped the now Bh, rponse to a journalist Zambia askg about whether gay marriage is agast Christian valu, said, "I shouldn't be takg a speck out of someone else's eye when I have a log my own. 17, 2001 -- Many gays and lbians say they have no illns about where Print-elect Gee W.
BH ON GAY RIGHTS ISSU
Also that year, Bh supported a measure that banned gay upl om beg foster parents or om adoptg foster children. "The short answer is that is unclear, " said David Smh, a spokman for the Human Rights Campaign Washgton, one of the natn's largt gay rights anizatns, when asked how the Bh admistratn might handle gay rights many, cludg Smh, say they fd forebodg Bh's Texas rerd and some of his recent picks for his admistratn's Cabet, cludg former Sen.
Attorney has opposed certa piec of gay rights legislatn bee he do not believe there is a need to legislate gay rights. Both Powell, now Bh's nomee for secretary of state, and Condoleezza Rice, Bh's natnal secury adviser-signee, oppose gays servg openly the 1993 policy stat that those the ary who engage "homosexual nduct" would create "an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good orr and disciple, and un hn that are the sence of ary pabily.