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Pam Spaulding has the transcript at Pandagon:

I think it’s wrong for the government to discriminate against people because of a 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, have hospital visiting rights, and join together in marriage.

I don’t understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage to allow it for gays and lesbians. Shouldn’t we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one partner regardless of sexual orientation? Because if we don’t do that, then to that extent you are promoting promiscuity and promoting all the problems that can result from promiscuity. And the loyalty and love that 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.

This means that Al Gore, who won the popular vote for President in 2000, an Oscar, and a Nobel Peace Prize but is not a candidate for President this year, has a more progressive position on gay marriage than any major Democratic candidate who is currently in the race or has already dropped out. Hopefully Clinton, Obama, and Edwards are paying attention to Gore and can adopt some of his language and positioning.