Gay marriage isn’t what beat Kerry | The Hill

Contents:

• JOHN KERRY APOLOGIZ FOR FORMER ABE OF GAY & LBIAN ERNMENT EMPLOYE
• KERRY SEEKS ASYLUM FOR BRAZILIAN GAY MAN
• GAY MARRIAGE ISN’T WHAT BEAT KERRY
• JOHN KERRY TO SELECT GAY DIPLOMAT FOR OVERSEAS LGBT RIGHTS
• JOHN KERRY WEIGHS IN ON ARIZONA'S ANTI-GAY BILL

JOHN KERRY APOLOGIZ FOR FORMER ABE OF GAY & LBIAN ERNMENT EMPLOYE

State Department history scrib the “Lavenr Sre” of this perd, that is, the wch hunts of gay and lbian employe workg for the US ernment. The Divisn of Secury (SY) had hundreds of State Department employe fired for beg gay or lbian.

For the next few years, spected homosexuals were purged om the Department’s ranks, sometim on spur evince, bee many nflated what they viewed as qutnable morals wh Communist tennci, or feared that such people would be more vulnerable to Communist prsur.

Boyk, Director of the Office of Controls, to make “every effort…to prevent the [Foreign] Service om gettg the imprsn that the Department is nductg a ‘wch hunt’” for homosexual employe. The Department fired 54 people nsired to be homosexuals 1950, 119 1951, and 134 1952.

KERRY SEEKS ASYLUM FOR BRAZILIAN GAY MAN

The trend ntued, as 74 of the Department’s 107 dismissals rulted om homosexualy alone the first months of 1953.

GAY MARRIAGE ISN’T WHAT BEAT KERRY

The Department sisted that s cisn to classify gays and lbians as extreme secury risks was ma “entirely apart om any moral judgment. ” Even those perceived as homosexual were emed secury risks.

Department employe began to acce their lleagu of beg gay or lbian–sometim anonymoly–and the flimsit of claims uld lead to vtigatns. ” Havg intified one potential homosexual secury risk, the employee soon implited dozens more, basg her accatns on ltle other than her “feme tun, ” as well as “the effemate mannerisms of hand” and the “jelly hand shake” of some male lleagu. John Kerry has asked the Obama admistratn to grant asylum to a gay man who was forced to return to Brazil after he married a U.

"While Brazilians are generally more tolerant of homosexual nduct than their neighbors Spanish-speakg Lat Ameri, the untry remas somethg of a have granted foreign partners gay relatnships the right to rince and have thorized civil unns that btow many of the same benefs of marriage to gay upl, but many segments of society rema openly hostile to Executive Office for Immigratn Review will not nfirm or ny whether an immigrant has requted asylum. But the feral ernment do not regnize gay marriag unr the Defense of Marriage Act, and Oliveira's requt to rema the Uned Stat based on his relatnship wh Co was nied last said they filed an appeal of that cisn uple met 2002, when Oliveira was on vatn.

JOHN KERRY TO SELECT GAY DIPLOMAT FOR OVERSEAS LGBT RIGHTS

Oliveira now liv wh his mother, helpg her n a boardg hoe for 2000 cens found at least 36, 000 gay and lbian upl the Uned Stat which one partner was a cizen and one was an immigrant, said Rachel Tiven, executive director of Immigratn Equaly, which advot for gay and lbian immigrants. "Their relatnship isn't beg treated equally, and at the end of the day, hardworkg Amerin cizens who play by the l are forced to choose between their untry and the people they love, " Tiven has -sponsored a bill that would allow gays and lbians om other untri to bee legal rints based on their permanent relatnships wh U.

Among them: that iativ banng gay marriage st John Kerry the Whe Hoe.

JOHN KERRY WEIGHS IN ON ARIZONA'S ANTI-GAY BILL

The basic facts are clear: Iniativ outlawg gay marriage appeared on the ballot 11 stat. To say Gee Bh won any of those stat bee anti-gay-marriage iativ appeared on the ballot is to misunrstand fundamentally the polil dynamics of those plac.

The send theory is that the iativ heightened the salience of gay marriage the stat, to Kerry’s triment.

It assum a signifint number of voters who say to themselv, “I don’t re enough about who the next print is to vote, what is forest to be a close electn, but I do want to make sure the anti-gay-marriage iative pass wh 61 percent, not jt 60 percent.