Gravel on Love
From Raw Story (David Edwards and Mike Sheehan, "Mike Gravel: 'Love between a man and a man is beautiful' ", 9 May 2007)
New Hampshire's WMUR TV hosted a conversation with [Democratic presidential candidate Mike] Gravel in which the former US senator, answering an audience question about gay marriage, replies, "If a couple of lesbians or gay men want to get married, and they love each other, they should have the right to do that and enjoy all the legalities in our society that go along with that. I have no problem with that at all."
"I think that people who create these problems of homophobia and the likes of that do us a disservice," Gravel continues. "We are all human beings and one of the things that should motivate us, most of all, is love."
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on Friday, 11 May 2007 at 01.21
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Good for Gravel. He's not just gotten old, but wise as well.
It's kind of funny. When I was a kid, New England was a region of the straightlaced, the conventional and the conservative. Even the reactionary. Any more, it seems to be a hotbed of progressive thought and politics.
When I was a kid, California was a place where fast and loose was de rigeur, where the conventional was considered backward and stultifying, socially. California politics and politicians, while not all way out there, tended to reflect liberal social values.
Then, California turned from Jerry Brown to Howard Jarvis and Tightwads Gone Wild. And then came St. Ronald the governor.
Go figure.