Kucinich Comes Out In Continued Support For the Gay Community

Forgive me my simple indulgences, but Dennis Kucinich really has a knack for consistency and simple logic. Although this may seem a given for those hoping to hold our highest office, i hate to admit that Kucinich has been able to turn it into a kind of campaign branding. U.S. military presence in Iraq is inflaming the conflict, so Kucinich begins his strategy with a full withdraw. The current, for-profit, private insurance system wastes hundreds of billions of dollars pursuing profit, so Kucinich calls for a not-for-profit system that cuts administration from 30% of every dollar to only 3%. America loses millions of jobs and racks up a $700 billion trade deficit, so Kucinich calls for withdraw from the trade agreements written to encourage this... and you would find the same clear understanding and lucid problem solving issue after issue. But, the fact that all men and women have equal rights, that's pretty obvious. Kucinich couldn't be alone here. Could he?

Somehow, though he is! What a wicked trick on thinking the other Democratic candidates have made. They all support equal rights. They all condemn prejudice. They all ask for votes indiscriminately. They all attended the Logo forum for votes! Yet none, except Kucinich, support full mariage equality for gay and lesbian couples.

Simply put, if you don't support full equal rights, you don't support equal rights. 9 out of 10, just isn't equal to 10 out of 10. And civil unions just doesn't grant the same basic institution and human dignity to gay and lesbian couples as full marriage equality. When speaking at the Logo Forum, Kucinich reasoned it out with the same simple clarity he usually does, saying that if one of our central documents holds that "all men are created equal", this must necessarily include our gay brothers and sisters.

The Kucinich campaign has continued it's support for the gay and lesbian community this week by supporting the Seven Straight Nights for Equal Rights Movement where

Between October 7 and October 13, 2007, straight people across the nation will "come out" as supporters of equal rights for the gay and lesbian community in America.
From Seattle to Montgomery, Alabama; Phoenix to Augusta, Maine; Duluth to Houston, Texas, overnight vigils will light up American cities, providing support and visibility to heterosexual men and women who have the courage and conviction to stand up for their gay and lesbian friends and neighbors.

As Kucinich states in the press release on his website:

These courageous community leaders are telling their elected officials and the media that "equality is not a gay issue, not an urban elite issue, not an East Coast or a West Coast issue -- it's an American issue, and Seven Straight Nights is making Americans' support for lesbian and gay equality visible as never before."

Kucinich is the only candidate who supports equality as an American issue and the only candidate to support an equal America.