The Washington Blade's Chris Crain
says about John Kerry's pronouncements on gay
marriage:
Kerry opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment backed by President Bush...but he backs those in Massachusetts and elsewhere who are amending their state constitutions to accomplish the same end.... Kerry's public support arguably gave political cover to enough swing votes to affect the exceedingly narrow vote by the Massachusetts Legislature in favor of the constitutional ban.
After Missouri voters passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage this summer, Kerry told reporters he would have voted with the majority. Later, when he was under the impression that the Missouri measure banned civil unions as well, he switched positions and said he would have opposed it. Still later, when his campaign learned that the Missouri amendment actually took no position at all on civil unions, Kerry demurred entirely....
As with his shifting stances on Iraq and other issues, Crain
writes, Kerry's "congenital inability to state a clear, principled
view and then stick to it is costing him dearly and may decide the
election."
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