Same-sex marriage is the law of the land in Canada and in many (most?) other Western industrialized nations. It's against the law in most states in the USA.
I was aware of the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin were opposed to legalization of same-sex marriage. Last night I was shocked to learn that Barack Obama and Joe Biden also oppose legalization of same-sex marriage.
Unless the following is incorrect ...
IFILL: Let's try to avoid nuance, Senator. Do you support gay marriage?Isn't this the 21st century? Isn't Obama supposed to be a progressive?
BIDEN: No. Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that. That is basically the decision to be able to be able to be left to faiths and people who practice their faiths the determination what you call it.
The bottom line though is, and I'm glad to hear the governor, I take her at her word, obviously, that she think there should be no civil rights distinction, none whatsoever, between a committed gay couple and a committed heterosexual couple. If that's the case, we really don't have a difference.
IFILL: Is that what your said?
PALIN: Your question to him was whether he supported gay marriage and my answer is the same as his and it is that I do not.
IFILL: Wonderful. You agree. On that note, let's move to foreign policy.
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