DEMS UNITED AGAINST BEING DIVIDED BY GAY MARRIAGE: From the Washington Blade

[Points for Kerry snippiness (I've bolded). Points off for bad grammar in that "Part picnic, part gala" sentence.--Eve]

It was billed as the most successful fund-raising event ever staged by the Democrats, with a reported take of $11 million.

Indeed, the Democrats' "unity dinner," staged last Thursday at the National Building Museum, was a sight to behold, bringing together not just disparate elements of the Democratic Party, but of grand-scale events, as well: a little bit circus, a tad awards show and, of course, a little bit rock 'n' roll. Part picnic, part gala, guests paid $1,000 each to chaw on barbecue served on plasticware in the museum's elegant atrium, surrounded by columns of all three orders of classical architecture. ...

"We are so unified," said emcee Ann Richards, the former Texas governor, "that before their wives got wind of it, Joe Lieberman and Al Sharpton were on their way to San Francisco for a marriage license." ...

Neither Gore nor Carter nor Clinton mentioned gay marriage, the proposed constitutional amendment to ban it endorsed by President Bush--or any gay-specific issues, for that matter.

John Kerry, who had the misfortune of following Clinton's sermon, gave the topic an oblique reference. "George Bush, who has promised to be a uniter, has become the great divider," Kerry intoned. "He has proposed to amend the [U.S.] Constitution for political purposes. He has no right to misuse the most precious document in our history in an effort to divide this nation and distract us from his failures."

The senator failed to note his own support for amending the Massachusetts constitution, a document with an apparent preciousness deficit, to prohibit gay marriage, recently rendered into law by the commonwealth's Supreme Court. It’s a surprising turn for a senator who, deeming the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act an act of gay-bashing, stood courageously among a handful who refused to sign it.

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