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.
Contents:
- GGRICH: NEWT'S GAY SISTER GETS OUT FRONT
- DID NEWT GGRICH OUT BR HUME'S DEAD GAY SON?
- NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED
- CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
- GAYLE GERGICH
- CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
- NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
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. * gingrich daughter gay *
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.
DID NEWT GGRICH OUT BR HUME'S DEAD GAY SON?
Out of nowhere, the Miami Herald has dted off and expand upon one of Washgton's olst and juicit polil mors: The one about a risg young beltway journalist and his gay affair wh a powerful GOP ngrsman, and how the journalist shot himself the head when his lover's polil rival threatened to out them. Acrdg to the Herald, that rival may have been Newt Ggrich. * gingrich daughter gay *
'' 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
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""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. Before the electn, he promised to hold heargs this year on allegatns that feral funds are beg ed for homosexual ""recment'' the public schools.
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
Cheney sisters' gay-marriage fight: A Ggrich has some advice * gingrich daughter gay *
""While Newt is promotg tolerance, his lleagu are preparg anti-gay legislatn. Out of nowhere, the Miami Herald has dted off and expand upon one of Washgton's olst and juicit polil mors: The one about a risg young beltway journalist and his gay affair wh a powerful GOP ngrsman, and how the journalist shot himself the head when his lover's polil rival threatened to out them. But Caputo adds a new wrkle to the tale: "Some" blame Ggrich, and not jt Armey, he says, for the threat to go public wh rmatn about Hume and Paxon's alleged the same time, mors surfaced that Hume and Paxon had been volved a a gay affair.
'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.
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. Startg the ‘90s, the Ggrich siblgs -- one a straight, nservative polician and the other a married, gay activist -- played out the same fay drama over gay marriage that is now roilg the Cheney clan.
GAYLE GERGICH
”Earlier Monday, after Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, took to Facebook to exprs their anger and disappotment over Liz Cheney’s disavowal of gay marriage on a Sunday talk show, Dick and Lynne Cheney released a statement about the dghters’ fd. The Cheneys emphasized their elst dghter’s lifelong opposn to gay marriage and said the “many kdns” shown to her sister should not be nsted as support for gay many, appeared they were takg sis their dghters’ dynamic felt faiar to Candace Ggrich, who 1995, jt after her brother ascend to the speakership of the Hoe of Reprentativ, plunged to gay activism, tradg on her famo fay name to bee a polil thorn the si of her powerful the Cheney parents, the Ggrich’ mother, K, was protective of her elst child’s polil reer. 8, the California anti-gay marriage iative, sce overturned, that passed on the very day Print Obama was first elected.
CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
Often, the change of heart has to do wh a fay member who is gay.
Rob Portman, on Mt Romney’s vice printial short list, announced March that his llege-age son, Will, is gay. A longtime opponent of gay marriage, Portman has now embraced . The Portmans wanted to make their announcement about Will, and Rob’s about-face on gay marriage, on their own timetable.
) Even Newt Ggrich has softened his recently as January 2011, as he sought the Republin printial nomatn, Ggrich was rigid about gay marriage. And the realy is gog to be that a number of Amerin stat -- and will be more after 2014 -- gay relatnships will be legal, perd. Jean said mpaigng for her sister was a "neat experience" and nied that Christe was homophobic.
NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
Glenn Thompson sred high on this summer's hypocrisy x when the PennsylvaniaRepublinvoted agast a bill that sought to enshre marriage equaly protectns to feral law days before dancg at his gay son's d rerdg provid to Buzzfeed highlights the rank hypocrisy. He was the gay brother of former Miami mayor and Florida Democratic Party chairman Manny Diaz.