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Title: Log Cabin and Stonewall spar over election at Harvard debate
Post by: Natasha on October 19, 2008, 01:35:08 AM
Log Cabin and Stonewall spar over election at Harvard debate

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=82033 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=82033)
Ethan Jacobs
10/19/2008

The closest any of the presidential debates have come to discussing LGBT issues has been a brief discussion of same-sex marriage during the vice presidential debate, and even then Joe Biden and Sarah Palin both seemed eager to change the subject as quickly as possible. But gay issues were front and center at Harvard University the evening of Oct. 14, when Stonewall Democrats Executive Director Jon Hoadley and Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Sammon visited the campus to debate each other and make the case for why Obama or McCain respectively is the best choice for LGBT voters.