SF MAYOR ARGUES CAUSE AT HARVARD: From the San Francisco Chronicle

A year after he decided to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom showed no indication of shying away from his cause. Tuesday, he took it to Harvard University, casting his fight for nuptial rights for gays and lesbians as another step in the U.S. march toward the expansion of civil rights.

"This is really about discrimination ... about denying people equal rights and equal protection," Newsom told an audience of more than 500 students, faculty and activists at Harvard, likening his campaign to legalize same-sex marriage to the movement in the 1940s and 1950s to legalize marriage between blacks and whites. ...

But Newsom appeared unperturbed by the blame, turning it into a joke Tuesday as he took the podium at Harvard:

"My name is Gavin Newsom and I reelected George Bush."

The audience responded with roaring laughter.

Instead, Newsom blamed the Democrats for what he said was a hypocritical approach of supporting gay rights privately but attacking it in public.

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