Young Barbara Bush Backs Gay Marriage
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Former President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara is the latest relative of a prominent Republican to support gay marriage.
In May, her mother, Laura Bush, gave this answer to a question about gay marriage: "When couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has."
John McCain's daughter, Meghan, supports gay marriage, though her father's against it, and the lesbian daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney supports it too. Gay rights leaders have seized on the generational split as a sign that support for same-sex marriage can come from either party.
Breaking ranks with her father, Barbara Bush taped a short video supporting the push to legalize gay marriage in New York.
"I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality," the 29-year-old Manhattan resident says in the video on the Human Rights Campaign website. "New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love. Join us."
As president, her father supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
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A Yale graduate, Barbara Bush has started a global health nonprofit group and rarely speaks on public issues. Friends tell The New York Times she was surrounded by gay students at Yale and in the New York City design world in which she worked.The gay rights group that made the video plans to show it at a party in New York on Saturday.
"No matter what party they belong to, young Americans believe in basic fairness and equality," Brian Ellner, who is overseeing the Human Rights Campaign's bid for same-sex marriage in New York, told the Times.
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Thank God for the age gap these people live in :jaj:
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Thank God for the age gap these people live in :jaj:
Better late than never, I live in Ontario, Canada, celebrating 8 years of same-sex marriages as of June.
Same-sex marriage was legally recognized in the provinces and territories as of the following dates:
10 June 2003: Ontario
8 July 2003: British Columbia
16 March 2004: Quebec
14 July 2004: Yukon territory
16 September 2004: Manitoba
24 September 2004: Nova Scotia
5 November 2004: Saskatchewan
21 December 2004: Newfoundland and Labrador
23 June 2005: New Brunswick
20 July 2005 (Civil Marriage Act): Alberta, Prince Edward Island, Nunavut territory, and the Northwest Territories * Federal LAW forced the last 3 to accept it *I can't imagine having to go thru the fight 50 times from the start to get the entire country with the program. I'm pretty sure Canada's solution to the last 3 hold-outs, would never work in USA,
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i don't think it's ever going to be done here in the Philippines. can't even get the church to accept condom use.
