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Nick Cargo "Today, I wanted to add my voice to Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, President Clinton, 300 pediatricians, scores of...constitutional and family law scholars [and] business leaders in opposition to Proposition 8," Pelosi told KRON-TV. "What is important here is that the Constitution be honored, that fairness and non-discrimination be the order of the day, and that Proposition 8 be defeated...This is a mean-spirited proposition that is discriminatory and unfair...You always go in the direction of more freedom, not less." "Family is very important to me," the Speaker told KPIX-TV in an expression of support for marriage equality. The Speaker has been married 45 years. "And I think that people who value family should be able to do that, and they should not be discriminated against...The people that [Proposition 8 is] being unfair against are people who are brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters--members of people's families. Why would we say that one child in a family should have certain opportunities and another child should not?" "This is about the Constitution of the State of California," she said. "Do you want the Constitution to limit opportunity, or do you want it to honor opportunity as it does?" Video of the interviews is embeded below. KRON: KPIX: Also, embedded below is video of a speech Speaker Pelosi gave on Sunday morning at the San Francisco No on Prop 8 offices:
In two Friday television appearances, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out against California's proposed constitutional gay marriage ban.
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Originally published on Monday November 3, 2008.



