Elizabeth Edwards strays on gay marriage

Contents:

• ANN COULTER REVIS HER JOHN-EDWARDS-IS-GAY ROUTE
• LOUISIANA GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS VETO 'DON'T SAY GAY,' GENR AFFIRMG HEALTHRE BAN
• ELIZABETH EDWARDS STRAYS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CONTROVERSIAL LUMNIST DRAWS FIRE FOR GAY SLUR

ANN COULTER REVIS HER JOHN-EDWARDS-IS-GAY ROUTE

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LOUISIANA GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS VETO 'DON'T SAY GAY,' GENR AFFIRMG HEALTHRE BAN

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic printial hopeful John Edwards, kicked off San Francis’s annual gay pri para Sunday by spltg wh her hband over support for legalized gay marriage. “I’m pletely fortable wh gay marriage. Toklas Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Democratic Club, an fluential San Francis polil anizatn.

5, one of the earlit ntts the nced her support puts her at odds wh her hband, a former senator om North Carola who she said supports civil unns among gay upl — but not same-sex marriag. ”No ser printial ndidate om eher major polil party has publicly supported gay marriage.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS STRAYS ON GAY MARRIAGE

”When John Edwards was asked about gay marriage durg a bate earlier this month, he emphasized his support for civil unns and partnership benefs but said, “I don’t thk the feral ernment has a role tellg eher stat or relig stutns, church, what marriag they n bls and n’t bls. ”Elizabeth Edwards livered her speech before a roomful of San Francis’s most powerful policians, cludg Mayor Gav Newsom, who 2004 legalized gay marriage San Francis.

Edwards also said her hband believ endg the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ernment policy regardg gays servg the ary. “The ary is already sexually tegrated, ” she said to lghter and Turman, the Toklas anizatn’s -chairman, said all major Democratic ndidat were ved to addrs the club, but only Edwards celebratnSan Francis’s gay pri para is a mpy civil rights celebratn, sprkled wh drag queens, leather chaps and a healthy dose of nudy — but very few, if any, mastream, natnal policians. Dianne Feste, when she served as mayor here om 1978 to 1988, never ro the annual para that started ’s why lol policians and activists hailed Elizabeth Edwards’ appearance Sunday as another step for gay civil rights.

CHENEY AT ODDS WH BH ON GAY MARRIAGE

“I remember back school I had a velvet baby-blue-slash-navy tracksu and I had people gog, ‘Oh, you’re gay. “If someone was trans or if they were gay, we were always very acceptg and open to hearg their story and where they were g om. Vice Print Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary is a lbian, drew cricism om both proponents and fo of gay marriage Tuday after he distanced himself om Print Bh’s ll for a nstutnal amendment to ban same-sex a mpaign rally this Mississippi River town, Cheney spoke supportively about gay relatnships, sayg “eedom means eedom for everyone, ” when asked about his stand on gay marriage.

“Lynne and I have a gay dghter, so ’s an issue our fay is very faiar wh, ” Cheney told an dience that clud his dghter.

The stat have ma that fundamental cisn of what nstut a marriage, ” he backs a nstutnal amendment prohibg gay marriage, a move Cheney says was prompted by var judicial lgs, cludg the actn Massachetts that ma gay marriage legal.

CONTROVERSIAL LUMNIST DRAWS FIRE FOR GAY SLUR

”Steven Fisher, spokman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay and lbian advocy group, said Cheney’s remarks show a stark difference wh Bh’s efforts “to put discrimatn the Constutn. The admistratn has been g gay Amerins to drive a wedge to the electorate. There are lns of Amerin fai who have gay fay members and iends, who are offend by the print’s e of discrimatn, ” Fisher month, Lynne Cheney said stat should have the fal say over the legal stat of personal relatnships, a ment that me jt days before the Senate failed to back the said the amendment did not have the vot to pass, but he also said the feral Defense of Marriage Act, which Print Clton signed to law 1996, may be enough.