Gay+Rights+-+Thompson

="Americans should be a tolerant people."=

(the shirts read: teens for thompson!)

Thompson opposes special rights for anyone. He said that "marriage is between a man and a woman and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that." In 2007, he appeared to support an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Earlier in the year he said that states should have a leeway in deciding whether to allow civil unions. He voted against expanding federal hate crime protections to include gender, sexual orientations and disablity.

//"I personally do not think that that is a good idea, but I believe in many of these cases where there's real dispute in the country, these things are not going to be ever resolved. People are going to have different ideas. That's why we have states. We ought to give great leeway to states and not have the federal government and not have the Supreme Court of the United States making social policy that's contrary to the traditions of this country and changing that overnight. And that's what's happened in a lot of these areas."//