Posted on 07/16/2007 9:50:08 PM PDT by Baladas
Elizabeth Edwards told a prominent gay rights group Saturday night that her husband, presidential candidate John Edwards, would help repeal more than a thousand laws that discriminate against same-sex couples.
As she campaigns for her husband in California, Elizabeth Edwards has staked out an independent position on gay rights. She appeared last month at a breakfast before San Francisco's gay pride parade, where she announced her support for gay marriage.
The next day, her husband, John Edwards, said her position surprised even him. The former North Carolina Sen. opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions.
Her speech Saturday to the Human Rights Campaign was an effort to reassure a crucial constituency with growing political clout that while her husband disagrees with her on gay marriage he would be a champion for legislation that would protect same-sex couples from discrimination.
Citing the story of a Sacramento man who died after witnesses said he was beaten to death by men who thought he was gay, Edwards slammed President Bush for not doing anything to help protect gays and lesbians against violence.
"This president talks a lot about good and evil and the need to seek out evil doers," she told a packed auditorium. "But he doesn't seem to recognize the evil in hate crimes. The right to live without the fear of being murdered for whom we love is not a special right."
The death of Satendar Singh, 26, galvanized Sacramento's gay community and others who saw it as an outgrowth of anti-gay rhetoric coming from local evangelical Christian Slavic churches.
According to Singh's friends, the group that attacked him earlier this month as he was leaving a picnic at Lake Natomas were speaking Russian.
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Me, too. I can’t figure out how hate crime legislation could make the penalty for murder even worse. I mean, if it’s not a hate crime does the perp get LWOP? If it is a hate crime should the perp get the death penalty? It’s just feel-good legislation anyway, a specialty of the Dem lawmakers.
His bigmouth wife who, if I am correct here, is having another occurance of cancer, should be a little more circumspect about her public pronouncements. She seems to be WAY close to the end of her life to be mouthing off in a way even she must realize will end her in hell. The preacher says that you have to fight your way into hell, that GOd does everything He can to keep you out. This woman is fighting with both hands and every means at her disposal toward that end.
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