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Governor has expanded gay rights, but won't sign a same-sex-vows bill.
Byline: Kate Folmar
Mar. 8--SACRAMENTO -- Perhaps more than any Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger openly professes his support of gay rights. He has signed more than a dozen laws strengthening domestic partnerships and hate-crime protections.
Some of his close friends and advisers are lesbians and gay men. And the live-and-let-live governor evinces no moral qualms about same-sex marriages. He's "not personally hung up on the whole thing."
So will Schwarzenegger sign a gay-marriage bill? No.
Not now. Perhaps never.
On so many subjects, including health care and stem-cell research, Schwarzenegger is willing to risk political capital to propel a national debate.
But on a subject that stirs passions among activists on both sides, he's uncharacteristically passive: The voters of California can navigate, he says. Or the courts can steer. That hands-off stance isn't what some Californians have come to expect from their take-charge governor.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Governor has expanded gay rights, but won't sign a same-sex-vows bill.