and Bernie was for abolishing all laws regarding sexual behavior specifically mentioning adultery and homosexuality. I will admit a tiny little bit of a gray area in the phrasing, but not much. Knowing that gay men had already been trying to establish their right for marriage equality, and specifically mentioning that all laws dealing with homosexuality be abolished does seem to add up to being for marriage equality as early as the early 1970s.
http://gaymarriage.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000030
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"On May 18, 1970, two University of Minnesota students, Richard John 'Jack' Baker and James Michael McConnell applied to Hennepin County District Court clerk Gerald Nelson for a marriage license. He denied the application, because the applicants both were men.
Baker and McConnell sued Nelson, claiming Minnesota law on marriage made no mention of gender. The trial court was not impressed with the argument, agreeing with Nelson. The state Supreme Court agreed with the lower court. When Baker-McConnell went to the U.S. Supreme Court, the couple was rebuffed again...
Baker v. Nelson has been used in other states as precedent to block efforts at marriage equality
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bernie-sanders-was-full-gay-equality-40-years-ago
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In a letter he published in the early 1970’s, when he was a candidate for governor of Vermont from the Liberty Union Party, Sanders invoked freedom to call for the abolition of all laws related to homosexuality:
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