Shifting Tide: ---ALL--- National Democratic Leaders NOW Support Civil Marriage Equality

[kpete]

* Nancy Pelosi gets it right: If coming out for gay marriage entails political risk, advancing a major civil rights cause makes it well worth it.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/226715-pelosi-support-for-gay-marriage-worth-any-political-risk

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Shifting Tide: All National Democratic Leaders Now Support Civil Marriage Equality
Posted by Chris Geidner |
May 10, 2012 6:30 PM

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At this point, all of the elected leaders of the national Democratic Party support marriage equality.

On the Senate side, both Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) now say that they support civil marriage equality.

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What this means, yes, is that all of the elected leaders of the national Democratic Party now support marriage equality.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has long supported marriage equality and was the first national elected official to announce support for a marriage equality plank in the Democratic party's platform in response to a question posed to her office by Metro Weekly.

Senate Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) also supports marriage equality. Senate President Pro Tempore, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), supports marriage equality, too.

Outside of Congress, the heads of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee do as well. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) at the DNC, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) at the DCCC and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) at the DSCC all have been supporters of marriage equality.

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http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/05/with-obamas-support-marriage-equality-quickly-beco.html

[morningfog]

1. This is what leadership can do. Great to see it exercised.

[freshwest]

2. Throw it in the GOP's faces, it's not like they're going to hate us any less. The USA leads again.

[Lugnut]

3. Wooo hooo!

It's about doggone time.

[countryjake]

4. Another pertinent Speaker Pelosi quote...

"My religion compels me to be against discrimination of every kind” -- Nancy Pelosi on marriage equality

http://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/200729475804176384

[Volaris]

5. That is a fantastic quote by the former Speaker...

I've long thought that nobody could drive a rhetorical camel through a political needle's eye quite like Nancy=).
Thanks for that, it made me smile tonight.