Al Gore On Gay Rights

Posted on his Current network yesterday. I tried to get a direct link to his website, but this'll have to do.

Here's the transcript.

I think it’s wrong for the government to discriminate against people because of that person’s sexual orientation.

I think that gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women, to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don’t understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage to allow it by gays and lesbians.

Shouldn’t we be promoting that kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one’s partner regardless of sexual orientation? Because if you don’t do that then to that extent you are promoting promiscuity and you are promoting all the problems that can result from promiscuity.

And the loyalty and love that two people feel for one another when they fall in love ought to be celebrated and encouraged, and shouldn’t be prevented by any form of discrimination in the law.

That's what it's all about. There's no good reason to deprive every consenting adult of the rights which heterosexual people enjoy.

Dammit, what might have been? Bush v. Gore and the 2000 election in general are going to go down in history as some of the darkest moments in this nation's history. We could'a had Al Gore. We should'a had Al Gore. We got this.
Damn, now I'm depressed.