Today, in a video on Current.com, former Vice President Al Gore endorsed gay marriage.

“Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women — to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don’t understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage…Shouldn’t we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to ones partner regardless of sexual orientation?“

While the remaining Democratic candidates, Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Barack Obama (D-IL), and John Edwards (D-NC), all support the overturn of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and civil unions, Gore is among the few prominent politicians to support same sex marriage. Here is a run down of other prominent supporters: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-WI), Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI).

UPDATE: From Raw Story:

During his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2000, Gore said he supported domestic partner benefits for gays and lesbians but opposed “changing the institution of marriage as it is presently understood — between a man and a woman.

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