Elizabeth Edwards slams Bush on hate crimes

[Ian David]

Elizabeth Edwards slams Bush on hate crimes
published Monday, July 16, 2007

Elizabeth Edwards, campaigning for her husband this weekend in California, condemned a fatal July 1 hate attack on a Sacramento man and said John Edwards would help repeal more than 1,000 laws that discriminate against same-sex couples, the Associated Press reported.

The death of Satendar Singh, 26, has galvanized Sacramento's gay community and others who fault anti-gay rhetoric coming from local evangelical Christian Slavic churches.

Singh, a Fijian immigrant, was attacked as he left a picnic in a park by a group of young Russian-speaking men whom Singh's friends said hurled homophobic slurs at them. He was put on life support and died four days later.\

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"The right to live without the fear of being murdered for whom we love is not a special right," the AP quoted Edwards as saying. "We were in fact reminded again while we share the lingering memory of a fence post in Laramie. The sorrow of that image is now joined by a park at Lake Natoma in Sacramento," she said.

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http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/07/16/1

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. So how come she isn't the candidate?

I would much rather vote for her than her husband.

[asjr]

2. Elizabeth Edwards lifts my spirit.

She is real. She makes me realize there are real people out there in this ugly world.

[closeupready]

3. I heart Elizabeth Edwards!

And she is so right on this.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Gotta trust a man who is smart enough to marry this woman

Go John!!!