Al Gore Posts a Video Supporting Gay Marriage

In a story logged today on Politico.com and then covered on Huffington Post, Poltico.com columnist Ben Smith writes:

Not sure what prompted this, but Al Gore has quietly released a video with a forceful endorsement of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. It pushes the Democratic establishment that much closer to a position he now shares with Eliot Spitzer and some other leading Dems, and is prompting a bit of grumbling in gay political circles that this batch of candidates aren't quite there.

"Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women -- to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage," he says on the video, which appears on his Current TV network. "Shouldn't we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to ones partner regardless of sexual orientation?"

Read the whole story here.

Towleroad.com has also covered this.

Here's Gore's original video link on Current.tv.

First posted 1-23-08 on the original Whistling Dog.