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Article: Kerry Compares Civil Rights Struggles of Gays, Blacks.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 8, 2004
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By Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 8--JACKSON, Miss. -- During a campaign swing through Mississippi yesterday, Senator John F. Kerry excoriated President Bush from the lectern of a black church, insisted that New England has much in common with the Deep South, and decried the "crucifixion" of the young gay man Matthew Shepard as he compared civil rights for blacks to gay and lesbian rights.
Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, predicted that "a guy from Massachusetts" will beat Bush in the South in November, and spent the day quoting both Scripture and Bush's mantra of "compassionate conservatism" in ...