{"id":1195,"date":"2008-01-24T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:17:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-24T01:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:17:28","slug":"al-gore-posts-video-endorsing-marriage-equality-for-gays-and-lesbians-he-doesn-t-understand-threat-to-heterosexual-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/01\/al-gore-posts-video-endorsing-marriage-equality-for-gays-and-lesbians-he-doesn-t-understand-threat-to-heterosexual-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore posts video endorsing marriage equality for gays and lesbians.  He doesn&#8217;t understand threat to heterosexual marriage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Gore has posted a video on his <cite>Current TV<\/cite> network strongly asserting the morality of faithfulness and loyalty to one&#8217;s partner regardless of sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0108\/Gore_for_samesex_marriage.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Ben Smith<\/a>:  &#8220;&#8230;Al Gore has quietly released a video with a forceful endorsement of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians.  It pushes the Democratic establishment that much closer to a position he now shares with Eliot Spitzer and some other leading Dems, and is prompting a bit of grumbling in gay political circles that this batch of candidates aren&#8217;t quite there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Gore says:  &#8220;Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women &#8211; to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don&#8217;t understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/current.com\/e\/88817757\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/current.com\/e\/88817757\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" wmode=\"transparent\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/gay-families-for-kucinich-the-only-democratic-candidate-to-voice-support-for-civil-marriage-during-debate-opportunity\/\">None of the leading presidential candidates support same-sex marriage.<\/a>  Clinton, Obama, and Edwards support equal tangible rights for gay and lesbian couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Gore has posted a video on his Current TV network strongly asserting the morality of faithfulness and loyalty to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[409,410,497,732],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Al Gore posts video endorsing marriage equality for gays and lesbians. 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