Edwards on homosexuality, Pace's comments on The Situation Room here

[Colobo]

Here is the video, and here's exactly what he said. A bit different from what I recalled.


Wolf: "He (Pace) suggested today his own personal opinion homosexuality, he said, was inmoral, as a result, don't change the DADT policy. First of all, in your opinion, is homosexuality inmoral?"

Edwards: "I don't, don't share that view, and I would go even further than that, Wolf. I think the DADT policy is not working and as POTUS I would change that policy."

Wolf: "Is the DADT policy inmoral?"

Edwards: I think the DADT policy is wrong, it's not working. I think what it's done effectively is kept us from having some of the most talented people we can have in our military, it's caused more problems than it solves and it ought to be changed."

And he keeps talking about gay marriage, etc. Here is the video. Make your own judgements:

http://search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query=John%20Edwards

Green box, second link.

[demnan]

1. Edwards is all about tolerance

He has his religious views but he's alot closer to Jimmy Carter than he is to the right wing.

[AshevilleGuy]

4. And he is a white Southern male, who grew up a Baptist.

It probably isn't easy for him to say this, but he has arrived at this place, and is becoming comfortable with it, it seems. I am also greateful to Senator Warner for his similar remarks.

[eleny]

2. K&R

[mtnsnake]

3. So he never answered a flat out "no" either, then, right? nt

[Colobo]

5. Nope

That's what he did say.

Personal recollections can be quite inexact. That's why it's good to bring hard facts. I'm glad I did.

[iamjoy]

6. "I Don't Share That View"

That's what he said.

It is not a direct denial.

Edwards is going to come across as inconsistent on this. As he admits, he is conflicted.

I think a part of him does consider it immoral, but doesn't want to admit it, and not just for political reasons. I think he realizes that people are hurt by these words. I believe him when he says he thinks it is a civil rights issue.

But, unlike Hillary who is very perfectly triangulated (we want to know what YOU think Mrs. Clinton, not others), he is revealing something of himself, not just a political view.

I am not homosexual, I don't know how it feels to not be able to openly express my love for my husband and to have automatically obtained all those rights that marriage confers. But, I hope homosexuals will see past Edwards's "ick factor" towards homosexuality and recognize what he would want to accomplish as President, and that is end of discrimination.

[Czolgosz]

7. Good for him.

[Morgana LaFey]

8. Good for him! That strong stuff works well, doesn't it?

John is showing it can be done, and that's pretty valuable. Hope some of our elected Dems are paying attention.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

9. "I don't share that view"

It is good to hear that from at least one of the major Democratic candidates...

I was undecided between Edwards and Obama among the candidates currently in the field. I now know who my favorite of the current field is. :)