Teresa Heinz Kerry says U.S. will one day accept gay marriage

herald ^ | 2/24/04

[knak]

SAN FRANCISCO - Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, said Tuesday that she believed the country would eventually move toward acceptance of gay marriage.

"I think with time and without a lot of politicization of this, we'll get there," said Heinz Kerry, who is on a three-day campaign swing through California, which holds its primary next week. "I think our country is basically a tolerant country."

Heinz Kerry was campaigning for her husband Tuesday in San Francisco, which has become the epicenter of the gay marriage debate since the city began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

She told reporters she was "not surprised" by President Bush's support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. She said she expected the Bush campaign would use her husband's views on the issue against him in the presidential race if Kerry became the Democratic nominee.

"It's a campaign year, what can I say?" Heinz Kerry said. "They'll use everything, everything."

Her husband, John Kerry, opposes gay marriage but supports same-sex civil unions. In 1996, he was one of just 14 Senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriages licensed in individual states.

Heinz Kerry said she sees the same sex marriage debate from the perspective of a mother because she has many friends struggling to come to terms with children who are gay.

"I think culturally we're going through a huge change," Heinz Kerry said. "I look at it in a human context because I have friends in those situations, and it's terrible. All we owe people is dignity, respect and civil rights. I think the country will evolve."

Heinz Kerry has three grown sons from her first marriage to the late Sen. John Heinz, a Pennsylvania Republican.

Kerry issued a statement Tuesday condemning Bush's decision to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

"I believe President Bush is wrong. All Americans should be concerned when a President who is in political trouble tries to tamper with the Constitution of the United States at the start of his re-election campaign," Kerry said. "He is looking for a wedge issue to divide the American people."

At a rally where she picked up an endorsement for her husband from local firefighters, Heinz Kerry praised the firefighters for their work on homeland security and sharply criticized the Bush administration for using legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security as a political tool against Democrats.

"What is the most damaging, I think, to all of us about many of the actions of this administration," Heinz Kerry said, "has been the cynicism with which they have perpetrated their positions and in which they have moved to trap us and, in a sense, terrorize us. Because it paralyzes us."

[international american]

Thanks for your help Teresa!! Keep talking!!

[Bluntpoint]

She is in a same sex marriage.

[redhawk]

Teresa also thinks she's an African American.

[Ragirl]

This woman makes me long for the days of Hillary.....God help us if she turns out to be first lady.

[Dolphy]

To each their own. I believe one day the US will look back on abortion with horror and wonder why a tree or endangered fish were held in higher regard.

[wardaddy]

How in the hell did the rather conservative Heinz family allow this shrew so much power in their family.

Where were their estate planners?

[Chris Talk]

"If guns are outlawed, ONLY outlaws will have guns."

"If GAYS can marry, then ONLY gays will marry."

It will become such a reprehensible thing, that no straight will touch it. And that is the purpose our ruling leftist tyrants have in mind, precisely.

[rogueleader]

Oh yeah! That's a gaffe--when a politician accidentally says what they mean.

Put that quotation up everywhere.

What is he going to do? Repudiate his wife? His ketchup mistress? Never.

John Kerry will NOT be the 44th President.

[NTegraT]

The New Waffle: He says "no" and she says "yes."

[Tempest]

Sure. Most people will eventually submit when you shove it down their throats.

[Saundra Duffy]

This is hilarious! They don't have a clue, do they?

[Michael.SF.]

"I think with time and without a lot of politicization of this, we'll get there," said Heinz Kerry

Interesting and a very telling choice of words.

[finnman69]

Teresa is fair game. She is a mix of Zsa Zsa and Arriana Huffington...that ought a play over well with the whole populism thang...not.

[Unam Sanctam]

John Kerry is lying when he says he is against gay marriage. If he really were, he would do something about it.

[AmishDude]

LOL!

[madprof98]

"I think culturally we're going through a huge change," Heinz Kerry said.

What Mrs. Heinz calls "change," many of us call WAR.

[mass55th]

Well why wouldn't they Teresa, the world has already accepted your marriage to a jackass.

[lawnguy]

"What is the most damaging, I think, to all of us about many of the actions of this administration," Heinz Kerry said, "has been the cynicism with which they have perpetrated their positions and in which they have moved to trap us and, in a sense, terrorize us. Because it paralyzes us."

What the heck is she talking about? Is there a coherent thought here somewhere?

[SamAdams76]

Looks like the battle lines are being drawn.

Well the "tolerant" Kerrys are in for quite a surprise. Even here in Massachusetts, it is running 53% to 37% against gay marriage. This issue has nothing to do with "tolerance" by the way. The Kerrys are simply using tolerance as a smokescreen to promote the mainstreaming of homosexuality and other sexual perversions into our culture.

[SelmaLee]

I don't really see Teresa Heinz as being in a position to tell me what I will, or will not accept.
I pray that it stays that way.

[LADY J]

It's hard to believe that our country has degenerated the way it has.

When a small minority ties to dictate the lives and values of the majority - it's time to put it to a stop. They will never be satisfied until they've torn this country apart.

[reluctantwarrior]

She married into the wealth, like her hubby. Commie peas in the same moral relativist pod.

[SwinneySwitch]

Haven't accepted dead babies and never will!

[Ohioan]

"I think with time and without a lot of politicization of this, we'll get there," said Heinz Kerry, who is on a three-day campaign swing through California, which holds its primary next week. "I think our country is basically a tolerant country."

What a looney tunes statement! If her husband cannot shut her idiotic mouth, he certainly deserves to go down in flames--figuratively, of course.

As I suggested on another thread, the very concept of homosexual "marriage" is the logical equivalent of one of the "spouses" of such a "marriage" picking up a rock and trying to register the event as the birth of a baby. You cannot redefine the language in order to make yourself feel good about your afflictions--whatever they may be. That "Liberals" keep trying to do this, and trying to pretend that it is "tolerant" to try to force others to accept their delusions, says a lot about their reasoning processes. But a lie repeated often enough, will always remain a lie.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[FeliciaCat]

I wonder what Mrs. Kerry thinks of multiple partner marriage? incestous marriage? Is this country "tolerant" enough for those as well.

Where should the line be drawn Mrs. Kerry? Or should there be a line? How about a free for all....you, and four other women all have the "right" to marry John.... Sound good?

[concerned about politics]

"I think with time and without a lot of politicization of this, we'll get there,"

That's exactly what the communist said after WWII. I guess they were right.
They can't do it through the American people, but they've managed to do it through fascist litigation.

[KC_Conspirator]

Whats net Theresa? Are you going to say that one day America will accept NAMBLA and child rape?

[greenwolf]

SAN FRANCISCO - Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, said Tuesday that she believed the country would eventually move toward acceptance of gay marriage.

I'd accept it now, but you gotta call it something else. I don't really see anything much more than a question of semantics here. Queers living in pairs are not the problem in this country; in my view, they should be ENCOURAGED to live in pairs. The big problem is the guy who checks into the gay bathhouse on friday afternoon and doesn't come out until Monday. That's the guy who causes problems for the nation and that the behavior which needs to be stopped.

[FR_addict]

Poll on Lou Dobbs.
Would you support a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage?

http://www.cnn.com/lou

[reluctantwarrior]

They are at the brink of succeeding in splitting the population, Christians vs. cultural christians, christians vs. catholics, jews vs. everybody. Read persecution By David Limbaugh, and for the folks overseas they are blaming the US first read a post about Jimmy Carter blaming the US for all the ills of the thirld world. The fix for the worlds poor is in "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto.

[livius]

Actually, they've managed to do it to many of the American people, alas. Think Gramsci - his whole program was based on gradually taking over the institutions from the inside and using them to undermine popular opposition to the plans of the left. We need only look at our schools to know that this has already happened.

What is amazing about this is that it is being accepted so easily by so many people who should know better.

[concerned about politics]

Whats net Theresa? Are you going to say that one day America will accept NAMBLA and child rape?

That's exactly what she's thinking if not saying. It's the next step.

[LADY J]

Would you support a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage?

Yes 18% 647 votes

No 82% 3019 votes

[reluctantwarrior]

Yes, that is their ultimate goal the repeal of age of consent and child rape laws.

[unspun]

If there could actually be something called "same sex marriage," I think it might be Betty Friedan.

[tazman3]

This is my rifle, this is my gun.

Sorry, couldn't help it. Current topic and all.

[concerned about politics]

The homophobes and intolerants are geniuses. They saw it coming, didn't they?

[unspun]

CNN polls are notorious for being dominated by leftists (probably of many nations).

[unspun]

This is my rifle, this is my gun.

Could you explain that, for people in San Francisco and Boston?

[ShandaLear]

Next question for the Mrs.:

And where should the age of consent be drawn for these same sex marriages?

[Bars4Bill]

Like we accepted green ketchup.

[monkeywrench]

The heinz's are the puppets of the commies in the un. Remember, "No controlling legal authority". The left is getting quite open in recognizing only 'international law'.

[glegakis]

U.S. will one day accept gay marriage

Not in your lifetime, sister.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"What is the most damaging, I think, to all of us about many of the actions of this administration," Heinz Kerry said, "has been the cynicism with which they have perpetrated their positions and in which they have moved to trap us and, in a sense, terrorize us. Because it paralyzes us."

You'd think a woman that filthy, stinking rich could afford her own subtitles, wouldn't you...? :)

[Bluntpoint]

Betty Friedan, when Hellen Thomas is not enough ugly:

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Not in your lifetime, sister.

Well, on the bright side: I imagine she ages seven years for every one of ours. :)

[isthisnickcool]

Wow, what a nutcase. What next? Marriage to dogs? Oh, that was insensitive on my part considering Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry married a guy with a hound dog face.

This is gonna be fun. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry can't keep her little rich *itch mouth shut. She will be one of the several things that will repluse America when they get to really see the real John Kerry and his "wife".

[tazman3]

Oh, ask a Marine. Ever see the movie 'Full Metal Jacket'?

The rest of it goes: This one is for fighting and this one is for fun.

Kerry might like playing with guns (wink,wink).

Geez I'm slow, just got YOUR meaning.

[KQQL]

H.R. 3396 (Defense of Marriage Act) Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Signed the Letter Backing Gay Marriage - massequality.org 07/12/02

"Kerry indicated he might eventually back gay marriages if a public consensus developed for them," Brownstein Notes.
http://www.massinsider.com/archives/001261.phtml