Yahoo! News - Bush, Kerry Differ on 'Choice' of Homosexuality
TEMPE, Ariz. (Reuters) - President Bush and Democratic candidate John Kerry, who both oppose gay marriage, disagreed Wednesday on whether the issue should be left up to states and offered differing answers on whether a person could choose to be homosexual.

Asked by the debate moderator whether he thought homosexuality was a matter of choice, Bush said, "I just don't know. I do know that we have a choice to make in America and that is to treat people with tolerance and respect and dignity. It's important that we do that."

Kerry said, "I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice."

Kerry said he agreed with Bush that "marriage is between a man and a woman."

However, he called for anti-discrimination laws to protect the rights of homosexuals. In addition, referring to state authority over marriage laws, he said, "the states have always been able to manage those laws. And they're proving today, every state, that they can manage them adequately."

Some people are more equal than others, I guess. Here we have the two major candidates saying it's OK to discriminate. Makes me want to leave the Democrats until they decide that ALL people are worthy of equal rights. History will look back and wonder how we could have been so blind.