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Steve Schmidt, chief strategist for Sen. John McCa durg the printial electn last year, says he backs "gay marriage."

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MARRIAGE NEWS: FORMER MCCA STRATEGIST STEVE SCHMIDT BACKS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’

He was earlier married to his ex-wife Steve Schmidt gay? He is not gay. Nowadays, gay rights are more-or-ls a settled issue mastream U.

Dpe this, Schmidt voiced his support for gay rights at a meetg of the Log Cab Republins 2008. Schmidt claimed to have been molted by a sut mp medic nicknamed “Gay Ray. The olr suts lled him “Gay Ray, ” and tnted and teased about our evable enunter wh him when the ch of the mosquo b bee too much to bear.

John McCa durg the printial electn last year, says he backs “gay marriage. ”Schmidt discsed his support for “gay marriage” durg an terview wh the Washgton Bla, a homosexual newspaper.

STEVE SCHMIDT, REPUBLINS AND GAY MARRIAGE

“I’m personally supportive of [marriage] equaly for gay upl and I believe that will happen over time, ” he told the newspaper. “I thk that more and more Amerins are sistent that, at a mimum, gay upl should be treated wh rpect and when they see a polil party tryg to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworkg, who play by the l, who raise cent fai, they’re troubled by . ”Schmidt said he’s “never agreed 100 percent wh any ndidate” he’s worked for, cludg McCa, who not only opposed “gay marriage” but also publicly backed Prop 8, which fed marriage state law as the unn of one man and one woman.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s re-electn mpaign 2006, he urged the ernor to sign a bill that would legalize “gay marriage. (Schwarzenegger now backs “gay marriage.

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