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Contents:
- REPUBLIN VIEWS ON GAY RIGHTS
- VIEWS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY MARRIAGE
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
REPUBLIN VIEWS ON GAY RIGHTS
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There are gay nservativ out there. Liberal stat began difyg same-sex marriage to law, and more gay and lbian upl gaed accs to the stutn.
The followg year, Oh Senator Rob Portman beme the first stg GOP Senator to announced support for same-sex marriage legalizatn, sharg that his son was gay. “They’ll say somethg like, ‘I personally don’t support gay marriage, but ’s settled law, so we’re not gog to addrs that. Moran says he rpond that he needs to go to gay and lbian voters the fall and tell them that the Republin Party has their back, and if the GOP vote unt for this bill is low, mak that msagg substantially more difficult.
VIEWS OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY ON GAY MARRIAGE
Erickson spearhead the anizatn’s efforts to mobilize morate Amerins to support marriage for gay upl by changg the nversatn om legal rights and benefs to the importance of makg a lifetime mment ont of fay and iends. ”Of urse, wasn’t so long ago when same-sex marriage was a non-starter for elected Democrats, the 2004 printial electn, the issue prented a polil quagmire for former senator and secretary of state John Kerry, a Massachetts Democrat who at the time opposed gay marriage but also opposed legislatn that would amend the nstutn to fe marriage as beg between a man and a woman. ”Support for gay marriage among the Amerin public and both parti has ntued to rise.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
“The gay marriage change is unlike almost anythg else terms of how much public opn has changed a short number of years, ” he says. Ron DeSantis and his “Don’t Say Gay” law to the newly adopted Texas Republin platform, which refers to homosexualy as “an abnormal liftyle choice.
Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who, 2012, was the first openly gay person to be elected to the Senate, to lobby her Republin lleagu hop of nfirmg support for the measure om 10 of them, which would give Democrats the 60 vot they need to overe a ’s been slow-gog so far, wh GOP members patg the bill as electn-year polics, sayg they haven’t read the bill yet, argug that ’s unnecsary and downplayg the threat of Supreme Court reversal – spe Jtice Clarence Thomas suggtg a ncurrg opn the Dobbs v.
That's bee the polics around gay marriage are a ltle weird.