It's one of the few mentions of LGBTQ+ issues on the campaign trail.
Trudy Ring at The Advocate:
In one of the few mentions of LGBTQ+ rights on the presidential campaign trail this year, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris discussed her support for marriage equality — and the need to be aware of threats to it — in an interview Tuesday on The Howard Stern Show. Stern brought up the threats, and Harris noted that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said he was ready to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the court’s 2015 marriage equality ruling, after the justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. That would take a case getting to the court, but the threat is there, especially if Donald Trump is elected president and has the opportunity to appoint additional conservative justices. The vice president talked about her longtime support for equal marriage rights. “I actually was proud to perform some of the first same-sex marriages as an elected official in 2004,” Harris said. That was when she was San Francisco district attorney, and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom declared same-sex marriage legal in the city. The marriages were later nullified.
“A lot of people have evolved since then. … Here’s how I think about it: We actually had laws that were treating people based on their sexual orientation differently,” she continued.
Kamala Harris told Howard Stern on Tuesday that marriage equality and other LGBTQ+ rights could be under grave jeopardy if Donald Trump wins again.
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From the 10.08.2024 edition of Howard 100's The Howard Stern Show:
