George W. Bush Quotes
I wouldn’t fire gays. I am not going to discriminate.
The call had been taped by Wead without Bush’s knowledge when Bush was first running for the Presidency. His radical right supporters among the Christian fundamentalists believed that Bush was opposed to gay lifestyles.
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, Telephone Call to aide Doug Wead
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At a Conservative party caucus, there was opposition to Mulroney's policy of allowing homosexuals to serve in the Canadian armed forces.
Earlier, he had opposed same sex marriage, but as the population as a whole had a change of mind on this issue, so did he. By 2013, 16 States had modified their laws to allow gay marriage.
He actually proposed withholding benefits from American citizens on the grounds that they would not, in his judgment, go to Heaven. The Constitution allows no differentiation on government benefits based on likely heavenly inadmission. The vast majority of Evangelical fundamentalist Christians to not take such a position. If Klingenschmitt were not a Congressional candidate, few would pay attention to his extreme positions.
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This was the first political statement of either party regarding gay rights
Clinton was reacting to questioning about gays in the military.
Like Christian Churches, different Jewish Sects had differing views on whether homosexuals should be ordained as rabbis. This Seminary was opposed, hence drawing the protestors.
Five years earlier, the World Health Organization classified homosexuality as a mental disease. When he made this statement, Guterres went against his own political party and most public opinion in Portugal. Two decades later, when he was elected Secretary General of the United Nations, he had flip-flopped on the homosexuality issue.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
