At 05:27 PM 10/15/2004, Tod E. Santee wrote:
SCHIEFFER: "Both of you are opposed to gay marriage. But to understand how you have come to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?"
First my answer: I have always believed it is a choice because it seems to go again natural law; males are attracted to females for the continuation of the species. In the past few years I have heard studies that suggest sexual preference might be determined by a change in brain chemistry during development of the fetus. I'm not convinced. Since I don't claim to be a homosexual, I just don't know.
- BUSH: You know, Bob, I don't know. I just don't know. I do know that we have a choice to make in America and that is to treat people with tolerance and respect and dignity. It's important that we do that.
His answer does not explain his thought process but he reached the same conclusion as me.
- KERRY: We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as.
His did not answer the question! He said how he thinks Dick Cheney's daughter would answer the question. So what was his purpose for saying it? Besides that, some's sexual preference is a personal matter that they and their family can discuss public if they chose.
- I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice. I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.
Again did not say what he believes. He said, "if you talk to anybody, it's not choice". Nice general statement that's not true. The Catholic Church does not believe that.
- And I've met wives who are supportive of their husbands or vice versa when they finally sort of broke out and allowed themselves to live who they were, who they felt God had made them.
Again did not answer the question. Told us how wives and husbands he met felt.
He is answering like he believes sexual preference is the result of biological circumstances but since he claims he is a Catholic, and didn't want to alienate those voters or the "religious right", did not want to come out and say what he believes.
- Kerry's defenders said he was well within bounds,
particularly given that Cheney has also talked about his daughter when
discussing gay issues.
- But both the vice president and his wife went after Kerry with strong words.
- "You saw a man who will do and say anything to get elected," Cheney told a rally in Fort Myers, Florida. "And I am not just speaking as a father here, although I am a pretty angry father."
- He told a local TV station: "I thought it was totally inappropriate."
- Mrs. Cheney was even sharper as she denounced Kerry after a debate party in the Pittsburgh suburb of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Wednesday night.
- "This is not a good man," she said. "Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
- But both the vice president and his wife went after Kerry with strong words.
stuntman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Ha ha ha, U R funny.
Both Johns brought it up during the de'baits', definitly deliberate and
a low blow tactic. They can deny it all year long. But it just shows
how "liberal" modern Libs have become.
Stuntman
