If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights for gay people.

The Task Force thanks the International Lesbian and Gay Association, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Watch for their efforts to promote pro-gay policies at the United Nations. It is repugnant that the self-proclaimed 'leader of the free world' will align itself with bigots and tyrants at the drop of a hat to advance the right wing's virulently anti-gay agenda.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Gay rights are human rights.

I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights.