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Senate Leader: States Should Decide Marriage Issue

Associated Press
Thursday May 10, 2012
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman but that states should decide whether it’s legal for same-sex couples to marry.

The Nevada Democrat says he believes that people should marry whomever they want, and that, in his words, "it’s no business of mine if two men or two women want to get married."

Reid says his children and grandchildren already take marriage equality as a given and that their view is a glimpse of the future.

Reid’s home state of Nevada voted to ban gay marriage in 2002.

Reid’s comments came in a statement Wednesday after President Barack Obama became the first president to endorse same-sex marriage.

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  • Anonymous, 2012-05-10 12:00:53

    It’s so interesting that Sen Reid is comfortable with Vegas strippers and the huge sex industry his state supports but he does t have the jimmies to say equality. This isn’t a gay or straight issue. This is a civil rights issue and the fact that the LGBT community are second class citizens in the eyes of the government. I don’t care what some alterboy-raping priest has to say on the matter, or what some fire and brimstone evangelical says about anything. But the government has a duty to represent and ensure that all citizens are equal under the law and currently we are not. And the same people that have a problem with gays are largely the same ones that thought white-only water fountains were what God intended.


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