I am disappointed. John Kerry is not my friend :(

[Brian_Expat]

A very unfortunate quote:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/05/sjc_affirms_gay_marriage/

Saying that "separate is seldom, if ever, equal," four of the high court's seven justices said that the civil-unions bill produced by the state Senate would not pass muster under the court's Nov. 18 gay marriage ruling, which found the state's prohibition of gay marriage unconstitutional.

"For no rational reason the marriage laws of the Commonwealth discriminate against a defined class; no amount of tinkering with language will eradicate that stain," said the court's advisory opinion. "The bill would have the effect of maintaining and fostering a stigma of exclusion that the Constitution prohibits."

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Kerry, now leading in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said yesterday: "I believe the right answer is civil unions. I oppose gay marriage and disagree with the Massachusetts court's decision."

So John Kerry thinks that me and other gay people should be, in the words of the SJC, "stained" as a "discriminated against class" with a "stigma of exclusion"?

Is this really the best the supposed front-running Democrat can do? Pander to the Republicans on one of their hot-button hate issues? Why isn't John Kerry going on the offensive and attacking the GOP, rather than attacking gay people with rhetoric saying that we shouldn't be equal?