Clinton advised Kerry to endorse state bans on gay marriage [View All]

[dolstein]

At least that's what Newsweek is claiming.

Kerry refused to go along with this advice.

Although I have no problems whatsoever with gay marriage, I think Clinton was (yet again) right on the politics. And frankly, I don't think it would have taken much of a stretch for Kerry to do this.

He could have said something like this: "I oppose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would ban gay marriage. Marriage has always been a matter left to the states, and I believe it should remain that way. If a state wants to recognize gay marriage, it should have the right to do so. And if a state does not want want to recognize gay marriage, it should not be required to do so. The president claims that activist state court judges are taking this decision away from the people. But as we've seen, not only in my own state, but around the country, the president couldn't be more wrong. The people are being given the opportunity to decide this matter on a state by state basis. And that is as it should be."