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Elizabeth Edwards: 'Comfortable' with gay marriage
The wife of Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, a familiar face to much of America since her husband first ran in 2004, said in an address to a gay rights group yesterday that she was was fine with same-sex marriage, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today.
"I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me," she said in an address to the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club. "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."
Elizabeth Edwards's position puts her at odds with her husband, who supports civil unions but not same-sex marriage. Read the rest of the story here.
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