The gay half-sister of Republin printial ndidate Newt Ggrich slammed his posn on gay rights on Wednday and said she will support Print Barack Obama, a Democrat, the 2012 electn.
Contents:
- GGRICH: NEWT'S GAY SISTER GETS OUT FRONT
- NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED
- CANDACE GGRICH-JON QUTNS WHETHER BROTHER NEWT GGRICH REALLY BELIEV HIS OWN ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
- GINGRICH’S SISTER AMONG GAYS LOBBYING IN D.C.
- CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
- NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
- GAY HALF-SISTER OF NEWT GGRICH BACKG BARACK OBAMA
- GAY HALF-SISTER OF REPUBLIN GGRICH BACKS OBAMA
- WHY DO NEWT GGRICH THK GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE TOLERANT?
- NEWT GGRICH’S HALF-SISTER, CANDACE GGRICH- JON RIPS SIBLG ON GAY MARRIAGE: I’LL VOTE FOR OBAMA
GGRICH: NEWT'S GAY SISTER GETS OUT FRONT
When hundreds of gay and lbian activists march on Capol Hill this week to mand support for AIDS fundg, Newt Ggrich's half sister, Candace, will be at the head of the pack. * newt gingrich gay sister *
When hundreds of gay and lbian activists march on Capol Hill this week to mand support for AIDS fundg, Newt Ggrich's half sister, Candace, will be at the head of the pack. As ever, the relig right is termed to make homosexualy a wedge issue. And the gay-rights movement wants to e Candace Ggrich to fight back.
'' Sensg a public-relatns payoff, gay activists began urtg her. ""Candace is rehg, '' says Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the natn's largt gay lobby. '' In January, after jog the fay to celebrate her half brother's swearg- Washgton, Candace flew to Chigo for a gay polil ball.
NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED
Candace Ggrich-Jon, a gay rights activist and half sister of GOP printial ndidate Newt Ggrich, talked about how Republins bash LGBT rights as a tactic. * newt gingrich gay sister *
""I don't md her beg gay, but don't start on Newtie! ''On a personal level, the speaker appears to be fortable around gays.
CANDACE GGRICH-JON QUTNS WHETHER BROTHER NEWT GGRICH REALLY BELIEV HIS OWN ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
Newt Ggrich's Lbian Half-Sister Qutns Whether He Really Believ His Own Anti-Gay Rhetoric * newt gingrich gay sister *
Before the electn, he promised to hold heargs this year on allegatns that feral funds are beg ed for homosexual ""recment'' the public schools.
GINGRICH’S SISTER AMONG GAYS LOBBYING IN D.C.
Candace Ggrich-Jon, the sister of the would-be print of the Uned Stat, is a lbian and a longtime activist for equal rights for gay people. The siblgs get along, but they also avoid batg some issu. * newt gingrich gay sister *
Ggrich cled to be terviewed about his sister, but the past, he has urged ""tolerance'' for gays.
CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich's sister joed other gay activists lobbyg on Capol Hill Monday for anti-discrimatn laws and ntued feral fundg to fight AIDS. Asked if her brother was anti-gay, she said no, ``jt maybe unrmed.'' ``Maybe he hasn't had people om both sis givg him rmatn,'' said Candace Ggrich, the 28-year-old half-sister of the speaker. * newt gingrich gay sister *
""While Newt is promotg tolerance, his lleagu are preparg anti-gay legislatn. 'I'll work really, really hard to get Obama re-elected': Newt Ggrich's gay half-sister slams her brother's opposn to gay marriage The gay half-sister of Republin printial ndidate Newt Ggrich slammed his posn on gay rights on Wednday and said she will support Print Barack Obama the 2012 electn.
Candace Ggrich-Jon, a gay rights activist, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she and her olr half-brother, the former speaker of the Hoe of Reprentativ, were 'mutually rpectful' but disagree on gay rights. Mr Ggrich's mpaign nearly sputtered to a halt last summer, but he has recently soared to the top of the polls the Republin ntt to choose a nomee to face Mr Obama the 2012 Ggrich is known for his socially nservative views and has said he oppos gay marriage.
NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
Cheney sisters' gay-marriage fight: A Ggrich has some advice * newt gingrich gay sister *
Ms Ggrich-Jon, a director at the Humans Rights Campaign, a gay advocy group, said he did not attend her weddg to her wife Rebec. The issue of gay rights is somethg that has long been touchstone of Republin polickg, and is startg to appear more the current race as certa ndidat, like Rick Perry, beg to start g harsher rhetoric on the topic. The GOP ont-nner's gay younger sister has fed her life and reer opposn to Ggrich's polics -- but they still love each other like fay Candace Ggrich-Jon, the lbian younger sister of Newt Ggrich, has never seen eye to eye wh her brother polilly.
GAY HALF-SISTER OF NEWT GGRICH BACKG BARACK OBAMA
Newt Ggrich's sister really lowered the boom on his anti-gay rhetoric after his many appearanc on FOX news a letter she posted on the Huffgto * newt gingrich gay sister *
And yet she ow her reer as a gay activist -- she's been an official at the Human Rights Campaign for 16 years -- to the former speaker of the Hoe and current Republin printial ont-nner.
GAY HALF-SISTER OF REPUBLIN GGRICH BACKS OBAMA
The gay half-sister of Republin printial ndidate Newt Ggrich slammed his posn on gay rights on Wednday and said she will support Print Barack Obama, a Democrat, the 2012 electn" name="scriptn * newt gingrich gay sister *
'When we were done havg our nversatn, my mom said, 'You're gog to have to give your dad and I time to get ed to this, bee when we were growg up we didn't have gay people.
WHY DO NEWT GGRICH THK GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE TOLERANT?
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' I was like, mmm, maybe lor TV, maybe microwav, Mom, but there were gay people when you were growg up. You jt didn't know they were gay luck would have , my mom was very efficient and quickly told everybody else the fay for me, which was fe -- I didn't really relish the ia of llg everybody up and tellg them.
We met later that week and she asked me if I was gay. I thk there were some people who pictured me as some ant homosexual activist bee I was bold enough to clare I was a lbian -- marchg at the head of the para, tryg to cha myself to the Whe Hoe fence, stuff like that -- when realy I was not an activist, at least not were you dog at that time? If I had a dream, was to maybe open a women's bookstore-slash-brewery polics of gay rights were so much different at that time, weren't they?
NEWT GGRICH’S HALF-SISTER, CANDACE GGRICH- JON RIPS SIBLG ON GAY MARRIAGE: I’LL VOTE FOR OBAMA
There were fely some champns even then, but overall, was still 'God, Guns and Gays' -- the three thgs the Republin Party ed to mpaign what happened?
The fallout was a lot of reporters then started lookg at Newt's polil past and reer and statements and posns, and they were fdg thgs that were egregly anti-gay and not supportive at all. Not that we were close or had spent a lot of time together, but that he would actually thk that beg gay was like beg an alholic, that we should be [merely] 'tolerated, ' that we weren't pable of beg fai.
They're behd history, they're behd the tim, they don't jibe wh what most people the untry thk, but yet they still clg to did you thk of Rick Perry's recent ad, which he says, "There's somethg wrong this untry when gays n serve openly the ary but our kids n't openly celebrate Christmas or pray school"? I gus that is kd of a fay do you thk Newt hasn't gone as far as some other Republins who have gay relativ, such as former Vice Print Dick Cheney, who has a gay dghter and supports gay marriage?