Editor’s note: the following is one of several position statements Sargent Shriver wrote as part of his 1976 Presidential campaign platform.
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I oppose legal discrimination based on personal life styles or sexual preference, just as I am opposed to legal discrimination based on other arbitrary criteria. Rather than interfering in private lives of citizens, the government ought to do what it can to maximize the opportunities for all Americans fully to develop their talents. And that means, at a minimum, an end to all forms of such discrimination.
