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To: calgal who wrote (502978)	12/3/2003 2:56:56 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The San Francisco Chronicle explores yet another Dean issue: "Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is widely regarded as a champion of gay rights after signing a pioneering civil union measure that he called 'the beginning of the end for discrimination against any American.' "Yet Dean, who speaks emphatically on the right of same-sex couples to receive the same legal privileges as anyone else, is hesitant to extend his demand for equality to the institution of marriage. "'I think that's up to the people of each state,' Dean said Monday in an interview with The Chronicle. 'We did not do gay marriage in Vermont. When I had the chance, we chose not to do it. But I'm not going to make a value judgment about the rights of other states to do what they want.' "Dean, who has surged ahead of his Democratic rivals in his quest for the party's presidential nomination, defended his posture in favor of gay civil unions but not marriage, saying: 'It's not what it's called. It's the equal rights we need to focus on.'"