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.
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- NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF SISTER SAYS SHE WILL 'WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD' TO GET OBAMA REELECTED
- GGRICH: NEWT'S GAY SISTER GETS OUT FRONT
- CANDACE GGRICH-JON QUTNS WHETHER BROTHER NEWT GGRICH REALLY BELIEV HIS OWN ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
- NEWT GGRICH'S GAY HALF-SISTER IS VOTG FOR OBAMA
- CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
- NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
- NEWT GGRICH’S HALF-SISTER, CANDACE GGRICH- JON RIPS SIBLG ON GAY MARRIAGE: I’LL VOTE FOR OBAMA
- THIS GGRICH A PROPONENT OF GAY PRI : POLICS: THE LBIAN HALF-SISTER OF THE NSERVATIVE SPEAKER OF THE HOE IS ORANGE COUNTY AS PART OF A NATNWI EFFORT TO PROMOTE OPENNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY.
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 sister gay *
'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.
GGRICH: NEWT'S GAY SISTER GETS OUT FRONT
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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.
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.
CANDACE GGRICH-JON QUTNS WHETHER BROTHER NEWT GGRICH REALLY BELIEV HIS OWN ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
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 sister 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 IS VOTG FOR OBAMA
Newt Ggrich's Lbian Half-Sister Qutns Whether He Really Believ His Own Anti-Gay Rhetoric * newt gingrich sister gay *
""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.
CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE
Ouch, Newt Ggrich's gay sister, Candace Ggrich-Jon told Rachel Maddow yter-night that she wouldn't be votg for her brother should he snag the nomatn--her snag beg his anti-gay rights posn. * newt gingrich sister gay *
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.
NEWT GGRICH: GAY PRI FLAG AT U.S. EMBASSI IS 'DELIBERATELY ANTI-AMERIN'
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""While Newt is promotg tolerance, his lleagu are preparg anti-gay legislatn.
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. 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. '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.
NEWT GGRICH’S HALF-SISTER, CANDACE GGRICH- JON RIPS SIBLG ON GAY MARRIAGE: I’LL VOTE FOR OBAMA
While the Republin go gunng for gays to boost his hardle GOP crentials, his lbian activist sister will be rootg for the Print. Can their 'rpectful' fay bond survive the stra? * newt gingrich sister gay *
' 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?
THIS GGRICH A PROPONENT OF GAY PRI : POLICS: THE LBIAN HALF-SISTER OF THE NSERVATIVE SPEAKER OF THE HOE IS ORANGE COUNTY AS PART OF A NATNWI EFFORT TO PROMOTE OPENNS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY.
Candace Ggrich has a msage for gays and lbians keepg their liftyle secret to acmodate the wish of their fai, iends or lleagu: It's time to e out of the closet. * newt gingrich sister gay *
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?
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?