Candidate for US Senate Harold Ford Jr. talked with Stephen Colbert last night about abortion and gay marriage. Harold Ford is a Democrat, and a former congressman from Tennessee. He recently moved to NY, and has come under heat for changing his position on some important issues. Tennessee is much more conservative than New York, and for the most part you have to be a moderate democrat to win in the south. Most congressmen in the south are anti-choice and anti-gay marriage.
In the past, Ford had said that he is opposed to gay marriage and opposed to abortion. Now, he spins his abortion argument differently, and sounds pro-choice. Ford recently said that he was now FOR gay marriage, and explained his change in stance on the Colbert Report:
Great for Harold Ford! Perhaps not all politicians are stubborn and close-minded, I think it is respectable that he was able to change his mind like this. Some say that he changed his stance just to get elected, and while I am sure there is some truth there, he still is doing an admirable thing by admitting he was wrong before and not supporting marriage equality.I've been out of politics for the last four years, and I've thought long and hard about it. I've had some different thoughts. I've got a wife that believes in it (gay marriage), I've had friends and others who have helped educate me on this. It's a changed position.
The interview from the Colbert Report was very interesting, and I have included the video below.
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I completely disagree. Ford did not change his mind because he had a change of heart, or because he realized that his past opinion was wrong. If he wants to run for Senate in the state of New York, he realized opposing marriage equality would kill him in a primary against Gillibrand. There is nothing admirable or heroic about changing your opinion at a moment's notice based on a desire to run for political office.
The gay rights movement needs leaders and politicians who will stand firm in support of marriage equality, even if the wind is blowing the other direction. Anything less does us no good.