Thursday, August 15, 2002
Republican gubernatorial candidates reject same-sex unions
A story published today by the Telegraph reports that the three major New Hampshire Republican gubernatorial candidates offered strong opposition to same-sex marriages and homosexual lifestyles and traded insults with one another before a crowd of GOP activists Wednesday night.
All three vowed to veto legislation to legalize same-sex marriages and
two said homosexuals should not have the specific anti-discrimination rights
they now have under a state law signed by outgoing Democratic Gov. Jeanne
Shaheen.
Gubernatorial aspirant, former state Sen. Bruce Keough, said "Nobody should
have any special rights regarding homosexual rights. They are not a group
that should be promoted. There should be no one who should make them
comfortable to feel what they are doing is perfectly normal. It isn’t."
Republican candidate Gordon Humphrey went further, supporting repeal of the
1999 state law permitting same-sex couples to adopt children.
"With so many families wanting to adopt children, I don’t think that
homosexual couples should be allowed to do so. There are plenty of
heterosexual couples who are anxious to and awaiting a child than the more
to accommodate those children waiting for adoption," said Humphrey, an
adoptive father of two boys.
