My favorite presidential canidate this far has been Hillary Clinton … for numerous reasons, not all of which I’m going to get into here. However, one reason I love her is that she has been one of the more (actually the most) committed proponent of gay civil unions in The United State of America. True, civil unions are not quite marriage, and that is something that all of us gay Americans want to work towards, however we are in a culture of “baby steps” more or less. Hillary advised that the issue of marriage should be left up to the states, so that perhaps once the government begins recognizing civil unions, progressive states like California and hell, maybe even Arizona (evidence hoped upon the results of the last proposition regarding banning same-sex civil unions), will begin to follow with nods towards gay marriage.
I have more thoughts on this that I’ll probably blog on at a later time, but in the meantime, let me share this clip of Hillary Clinton on the Ellen Degeneres Show in New York a few months ago. As much as Ellen does sometimes borderline-annoy me with her brand of humor, I have huge amount of respect for her for directly addressing, quite bluntly, the issue of gay civil-unions vs. gay marriage, a topic that other interviewers, including our closeted Anderson Cooper, have refused to tackle head-on. Watch the clip here.
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