QUESTION: “Given that there’s so much dissension in the country about gay marriage, what is your view, or what would you tell your gay supporters in the country what your view is on — not gay marriage in a religious sense, but gay marriage as a civil right and as being able to get a civil license to marry your same sex partner?”
EDWARDS: “Single hardest social issue for me, personally — and there are lots of them — but most of the others, I don’t have a lot of personal struggle with. I have a lot of personal struggle with this one…. Because the issue is, from my perspective, I think it is right and fair and just in America that men and women who want to live with their partner should be treated with dignity and respect and should have civil rights, as you refer to them. And the question becomes, ‘Can you accomplish that through civil unions or partnership recognition and support of partnership benefits? Does that provide the level of dignity and respect that gay Americans are entitled to? Or do you have to cross the bridge into the issue of gay marriage?’ I personally feel great conflict about that. I don’t know the answer. Wish I did…”
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