Ted Kennedy, Pro Gay Rights & Pro Gay Marriage, Dies

Ted Kennedy, a leader in lesbian and gay rights, has died at the age of 77. He had been battling brain cancer for the last few years. He died at his Hyannis Port, Massachusetts home on August 25, 2009. Kennedy had a pro-gay voting record for many years that included voting NO on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriage, voting to add sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes and to expand hate crimes to include sexual orientation, voting NO to prohibiting same-sex marriage, and voting YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. Kennedy was a Democratic US Senator for Massachusetts, having served in the Senate since 1962. Kennedy was born in 1932 in Boston, the youngest of nine children. Full Story from The Examiner

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