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“In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation...We support the recognition of equal rights of persons gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender to housing, jobs, civil marriage, medical benefits, child custody, and in all areas of life provided to all other citizens.”
[McKinney] supports the right of all individuals to freely choose their partners regardless of sex or sexual orientation and to the equal rights of all to the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage. Every religion is free to define "marriage" as it sees fit, but "marriage" under the law must not discriminate. As Rev. Al Sharpton once observed, we should be less concerned with who people go to bed with at night, and more concerned with whether either partner has a job to go to in the morning. The only kind of 'marriage' that needs a constitutional ban is the marriage between corporations and government.
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“In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation...We support the recognition of equal rights of persons gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender to housing, jobs, civil marriage, medical benefits, child custody, and in all areas of life provided to all other citizens.”
[McKinney] supports the right of all individuals to freely choose their partners regardless of sex or sexual orientation and to the equal rights of all to the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage. Every religion is free to define "marriage" as it sees fit, but "marriage" under the law must not discriminate. As Rev. Al Sharpton once observed, we should be less concerned with who people go to bed with at night, and more concerned with whether either partner has a job to go to in the morning. The only kind of 'marriage' that needs a constitutional ban is the marriage between corporations and government.
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"I supported the Equal Rights Amendment. I opposed efforts to ban gay adoptions in Washington DC."
Green Party 2008 Presidential Candidate Questionnaire Feb 3, 2008
In addition to the proposal to rescind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” McKinney is also a co-sponsor of a bill that would create a path to citizenship for foreign gay men and lesbians in a domestic partnership with an American citizen.
Co-sponsored the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2005 (H.R. 1059), which would replace "the current policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces, referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation."