This is big. Al Gore on Gay rights

Yes, he endorsed DOMA under Clinton, but people can change their attitudes and their outlooks on life. (Hint, Fearless Leader! Hint!)

Al Gore comes out and says some nice things about gay relationships, here.

From the article:

Saying there are "many kinds of love," Gore referenced the "gay marriage" ceremonies performed at San Francisco in early 2004, and then said, according to a transcript: "[S]ome reacted with hatred and anger. What I saw that was just overwhelming was the love, the joy, the purity of the excitement that that love was being honored.

"It is that love, after all, that is at the heart of why everybody is here. That is what must be honored and respected. Your right to fall in love with who you fall in love with. And your right to expect that that will be recognized with the same dignity and honor that love is recognized for other couples."

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Gore then said that Americans in the future will view the current debate over homosexuality in bewilderment. The nation will evolve, he added.

"[A] future generation will look back and truly wonder how this could have happened [this controversy], just as we look back and wonder how some of the strange practices that embody such horrific injustice in ages past but never have been tolerated -- they will look back at this period of time and feel puzzled and they will see and understand that the vision that has brought all of us here inspires a passionate devotion to justice and necessary change and the feeling of camaraderie among us all," he said.

"... You know that what you are engaged in is the furtherance of a vision that is true and just and it does require the evolution of consciousness along a pathway that is a logical extension of what the United States of America has always promised to humankind. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. And the United States of America will, at some point say, 'What you are asking is what you shall receive.'"


We can only hope. It's a shame Al needed to have an election stolen from him to bring out that inner passion. On the war, on the environment, and now on gay unions. This is one of the more moving statements on the subject I've ever heard a national politician make.