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...None of you could have walked in City Hall and not experienced the same emotional feeling as I did,” Newsom said. “It’s so simple that two people in love should marry...
...Newsom argued that President Bush had used same-sex marriage, as well as stem cell research and abortion, as a political “wedge” to advance his political career, and that these efforts helped him form his own opinions about marriage rights...
...We’re talking about marriage here. It is an institution of stability,” said Newsom in response to arguments that same-sex marriage can have a detrimental effect on families...
...Newsom was introduced last night by Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, who wedded her co-Master Dorothy A. Austin last summer. Eck defended Newsom’s issuance of more than 4,000 same-sex marriage licenses by comparing it to the actions of Rosa Parks during the civil rights movement
Audience reception was characterized by generous applause and receptive laughs to Newsom’s jokes about Britney Spears, side comments on Bill O’Reilly and other “white-teethed” critics. Newsom readily admitted that part of the reason he came to speak in Massachusetts was because he felt comfortable in a state which has legally sanctioned same-sex marriage...