Word: supportive
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Touching on issues that appeared in the vice-presidential debate, the candidates agreed on several issues of social discrimination. Although both expressed opposition to racial profiling, Gore was alone in expressing support for a law that would end the practice, as well as for the hate crimes law currently pending in Congress. Bush favored an approach that would give greater choice to the states on racial profiling and argued that new hate crimes laws could be rendered unnecessary by more vigorous enforcement of existing...
Similarly, while both candidates said they were opposed to gay marriage, only Gore expressed his support of civil unions, though he did not say how they should be implemented. Gore also asked Bush to endorse the Employer Non-Discrimination Act, a bill pending in Congress that would ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Bush's response did not mention this bill or the subject of civil unions. Bush did stress that gays should not be extended "special rights," although he did not clarify what the term meant despite Lehrer's prodding...
Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01, founder and former president of the campus gay social and support group Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND), said yesterday that he liked the tone of this year's festivities, although he wished there was more publicity...
...that have faith in the U.N., if they're run correctly," Robinson said, adding that the U.S. should pay the $1 billion it owes in dues. "The U.N. is the best policeman in the world to deploy in these hotspots and the U.S. should do what it can to support...
...debate determine the extent to which they support us," he said. "I'm confident there will be a debate, and we'll announce it in the next week...