Did Pal Flip-Flop on Gay Rights?

Contents:

• GAY REPUBLINS ENDORSE SARAH PAL
• PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE
• DID PAL FLIP-FLOP ON GAY RIGHTS?
• SARAH PAL AND GAY RIGHTS: THE TOM FK CONNECTN (UPDATED)
• PAL BRAWL: TRACK PAL ‘NOT TRYG TO BE GAY OR NOTHG,’ SAYS HE FOUGHT ‘LTLE B*****S’
• IS MICHAEL PAL GAY?
• SARAH PAL'S FRIEND 'WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY' EMERG IN DUCK DYNASTY DEBATE
• PAL TRI TO WALK CENTER LE ON GAYS
• PAL'S CHURCH PROMOT CONVERSN OF GAYS
• DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?
• PAL, BIN AGREE ON GAY RIGHTS AT BATE
• IS PAL FOR GAY RIGHTS?

GAY REPUBLINS ENDORSE SARAH PAL

The anizatn has fend Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law by parg s opponents to pedophil, opposed landmark LGBTQ nondiscrimatn legislatn, and has repeatedly been soundly rejected by the Republin Party.

And the gay group’s endorsement met the same rponse onle as the ’s bid for acceptance and Pal’s hop for higher office.

PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE

And earlier this month, Pal mysterly retweeted a ment Bce ma slammg opponents of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, promptg speculatn about Pal’s own stance on gay rights. Enuf already–the more someone plas about the homos the more we should look unr their bed. Acrdg to her Web se, she’s a “gay, pro-choice, gun owng, pro-ath penalty, Tea Party Inpennt Conservative.

(Bce’s speaker b offers such topics as “Contrary to Popular Belief: How Conservative Ias Empower Women, Gays, and Blacks.

Also key to the Tea Party’s embrace of Bce: She don’t rock the boat on gay rights.

DID PAL FLIP-FLOP ON GAY RIGHTS?

She’s volved wh a nservative gay rights group, but Bce’s official posn on marriage is that ’s for a man and a woman only—even though she told Cathy Young eight years ago that she supported gay marriage. It’s hard to know what to make of her retweet of Bce’s DADT ment, which seems at odds wh Pal’s past posns on gay rights issu.

SARAH PAL AND GAY RIGHTS: THE TOM FK CONNECTN (UPDATED)

Pal is on the rerd supportg a feral ban on gay marriage, and while she vetoed a bill nyg benefs to same-sex upl Alaska, she did so on nstutnal grounds, sayg she would have supported the ban had been proposed via ballot measure. Pal mataed back then, that most damng of sistenc, that she “has gay iends. ” Also, fairly or not, people have seized on Willow Pal’s sual e of homophobic language her recent Facebook flame wars as an ditn that such words might not be off-lims the Pal home.

Her ments didn’t enar her to gay rights activists, but they weren’t a fense of the policy, eher. Tweeted Bce—now a bona fi gay iend to whom Pal n pot—”I know Gov Pal & this ‘anti-gay’ meme has been a lie—pla & simple. ” Of urse, ’s also possible that Pal’s posn has changed over time, whether nnily or genuely, as the Amerin public has bee more supportive of gay rights and as the culture wars have reced somewhat.

Republin vice printial nomee Sarah Pal says she supports a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, a break wh John McCa who has said he believ stat should be left to fe what marriage is. 20, 2008, 10:08 PM UTC / Source: The Associated PrsRepublin vice printial nomee Sarah Pal says she supports a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, a break wh John McCa who has said he believ stat should be left to fe what marriage an terview wh Christian Broadstg Network, the Alaska ernor said she had voted 1998 for a state amendment banng same sex marriage and hoped to see a feral ban on such unns.

PAL BRAWL: TRACK PAL ‘NOT TRYG TO BE GAY OR NOTHG,’ SAYS HE FOUGHT ‘LTLE B*****S’

I don't support gay marriage, " Pal said. She said she believed tradnal marriage is the foundatn for strong, an Arizona senator, is supportg a ballot iative his state this year that would ban gay marriage. But he has nsistently and forcefully opposed a feral marriage amendment, sayg would urp stat' thory on such ernor, Pal vetoed a bill that would have nied benefs to the partners of gay state employe.

IS MICHAEL PAL GAY?

In a bate wh Democratic rival Joe Bin, Pal said she was "tolerant" of gays and said she supported certa legal protectns for same-sex upl, like hospal visatn the CBN terview, Pal also said she would speak out if she heard a supporter at a rally yell vlent or threateng ments about Barack Obama, the Democratic printial nomee.

Durg an exchange on the topic, both she and Joe Bin said they oppose gay marriage. But Bin add that he and Barack Obama favor grantg gay upl many of the same benefs—hospal visatn rights, health benefs—that married upl enjoy. She clearly didn't want to appear tolerant, but neher did she want to seem to embrace gay rights.

In the past, Pal has scribed her opposn to grantg gay upl the benefs married upl receive. "I'm glad to hear the ernor … thks there should be no civil-rights distctn … between a mted gay uple and a mted heterosexual uple.

SARAH PAL'S FRIEND 'WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY' EMERG IN DUCK DYNASTY DEBATE

" Pal dodged the qutn: "Your qutn to him was whether he supported gay marriage and my answer is the same as his and is that I do not.

In Sarah Pal’s recent vice printial bate and Katie Couric terviews, she has gone out of her way to celebrate her own “tolerance” for gays, even vokg the old some-of-my-bt-iends shibboleth. When she buted Alaska polics 2002, however, nng unsuccsfully for litenant ernor, her only televisn mercials featured an ex-mayor of Anchorage notor for anti-gay actns so extreme that the Anchorage legislature — no hotbed of liberalism — twice reversed him.

Pal’s pick for her mpaign mercial was Tom Fk, mayor of Anchorage om 1987 to 1994, whose reputatn largely om his veto on two bills 1993 that banned discrimatn agast, and fund arts programmg by, the gay muny.

PAL TRI TO WALK CENTER LE ON GAYS

Pal’s rpons about gay rights the bate on October 8 were wily terpreted as ditg support for some form of civil unn legislatn.

” That same year, he proposed to ncel a $19, 000 municipal grant for an arts pany that hoed a black gay theater group after he and the Assembly prohibed the group’s ad om appearg on a b. “He has been pretty outspoken about the non-rights of gays and lbians.

PAL'S CHURCH PROMOT CONVERSN OF GAYS

Republin lawmakers had sued Ulmer 1998, claimg her wordg of a state referendum qutn on gay marriage was prejudiced — Ulmer’s text said would amend the state nstutn “to lim marriage” rather than “on marriage. ” But Fk said he didn’t speak out agast Ulmer Pal’s 2002 mercial bee of the gay-rights issue particular. Fk is forthright on gay issu.

“I’m not favor of expandg gay rights, ” he said. “I’m not favor of gay marriage. When Fk proposed to stop municipal fundg to the Out North Contemporary Art Hoe, was featurg a show by the performance group Pomo Ao Homos lled, “Fierce Love: Stori From Black Gay Life.

“There was a time where they were puttg on a gay productn a cy owned buildg, ” Fk said about the issue. “I didn’t look very kdly at that… I was not favor of the cy g tax money to support gay programs.

DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?

Out North Executive Director Mike Huelsman, who was appoted to his posn by Fk 1991, said the former mayor’s posn on gay rights is “actually more plex” than labelg Fk “anti-gay. “It was clear to me that Tom Fk thought was wrong to advertise a gay theater program on cy bs, ” Huelsman said. “She never said ‘Maybe I was wrong to support an anti-gay nstutnal amendment, '” she said.

UPDATE: Tom Fk’s assertn that there was no anti-gay discrimatn Anchorage while he was mayor is pletely off the mark, acrdg to gay-activist and -founr of Out North, Jay Dugan-Brse. The first, “A Profile of Alaska’s Gay and Lbian Communy, ” had siar fdgs 1986 and was supported by the then-mayor’s office unr Tony Knowl, Dugan-Brse said.

PAL, BIN AGREE ON GAY RIGHTS AT BATE

In another police d rerdg, Track Pal, the 25-year-old son of Sarah and Todd Pal, also tells ps that he joed the fight when a iend of his named Steve — intified by the Anchorage Dispatch News as Steve Lebida — whom Track scribed as “basilly a gay guy, but he’s not, ” was asslted. But when unintified attackers asslted the “nocent” and “basilly gay” Steve, Track stripped off his shirt and joed the fight, he said, only to fd himself facg down four opponents.

Track said that he got one punch , but he was outnumbered, and that is the reason that he failed to w the fight — not bee he is gay, which he was quick to pot out, he is not. I’m not tryg to be gay or nothg, but they’re four guys, man, like, e on.

As wh many other celebri, happens to be speculated the issue - Michael Pal is gay? However, there are people who say Michael Pal is gay, but their ments haven't any nsistency or accuracy of any sort.

IS PAL FOR GAY RIGHTS?

The g out of Michael Pal would greatly benef lns of homosexuals around the world who are still the closet. Although Michael Pal has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other.