Sarah Pal and Gay Rights: The Tom Fk Connectn (Updated) - The Village Voice

Contents:

• PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN
• SARAH PAL'S FRIEND 'WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY' EMERG IN DUCK DYNASTY DEBATE
• SARAH PAL ADMS SHE DEFEND PHIL ROBERTSON'S ANTI-GAY REMARKS BEFORE EVEN READG THEM
• SARAH PAL DEFENDS 'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS AS FREE SPEECH
• SARAH PAL AND GAY RIGHTS: THE TOM FK CONNECTN (UPDATED)
• LYNN VCENT, PAL CO-AUTHOR, HAS ANTI-GAY HISTORY
• SARAH PAL ON CHICK-FIL-A: REPUBLIN SHOWS SUPPORT AMID GAY RIGHTS DEBATE
• DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?
• DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?

PAL BREAKS WH MCCA ON GAY MARRIAGE BAN

) - In an terview wh CBN's David Brody, Sarah Pal signaled her support for a nstutnal ban on gay marriage, a posn that John McCa once scribed as "anthetil every way to the re philosophy of Republins. I wish on a feral level that that's where we would go bee I don't support gay marriage, " Pal said.

Gay marriage isn't the only issue on which Pal and McCa have exprsed differenc of opn. Ls than a week after fendg spend "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson's anti-gay ments as ee speech, former vice printial ndidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal went after A&E's "hypocrisy, " cg a gay iend the an terview last week wh Fox News, Pal poted a fger at the work for spendg Robertson and scribed an email nversatn she had wh a iend of hers "who happens to be gay.

Robertson ran to hot water after GQ published an terview earlier this month ntag some eyebrow-raisg ments on homosexualy, as well as the black muny.

SARAH PAL'S FRIEND 'WHO HAPPENS TO BE GAY' EMERG IN DUCK DYNASTY DEBATE

”As Towleroad wonrs, uld this "gay iend" that Pal is trottg out to fend Robertson be the same iend she spoke about 2008? In an terview wh CBS, Pal, who was ernor of Alaska at the time, stated: "As for homosexualy, I am not gog to judge Amerins and the cisns that they make their adult personal relatnships.

SARAH PAL ADMS SHE DEFEND PHIL ROBERTSON'S ANTI-GAY REMARKS BEFORE EVEN READG THEM

One of my bt iends for the last 30 years happens to be gay and I love her arly. She's not my gay iend, she is one of my bt iends who happens to have ma a choice that isn't a choice that I have ma.

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Sarah Pal (R) was one of the first polil figur to fend Phil Robertson, star of A&E's "Duck Dynasty, " when he me unr fire for makg anti-gay ments an terview wh an terview wh Fox News' Greta Van Steren on Monday, Pal admted she never even read the terview before shg to fend the TV star.

SARAH PAL DEFENDS 'DUCK DYNASTY' STAR'S ANTI-GAY COMMENTS AS FREE SPEECH

Van Steren brought up Robertson's "offensive" ments -- which he pared homosexualy to btialy and said "to me, a vaga -- as a man -- would be more sirable than a man’s an" -- and asked Pal if she had a problem wh "the manners of how he said . Sarah Pal believ the backlash over "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson's anti-gay ments is a threat to eedom of speech. The 67-year-old duck hunter ma headl when GQ published an terview which he discsed moraly and s, and juxtaposed homosexualy wh btialy.

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SARAH PAL AND GAY RIGHTS: THE TOM FK CONNECTN (UPDATED)

In Sarah Pal’s recent vice printial bate and Katie Couric terviews, she has gone out of her way to celebrate her own “tolerance” for gays, even vokg the old some-of-my-bt-iends shibboleth.

LYNN VCENT, PAL CO-AUTHOR, HAS ANTI-GAY HISTORY

When she buted Alaska polics 2002, however, nng unsuccsfully for litenant ernor, her only televisn mercials featured an ex-mayor of Anchorage notor for anti-gay actns so extreme that the Anchorage legislature — no hotbed of liberalism — twice reversed him. Pal’s pick for her mpaign mercial was Tom Fk, mayor of Anchorage om 1987 to 1994, whose reputatn largely om his veto on two bills 1993 that banned discrimatn agast, and fund arts programmg by, the gay muny. Pal’s rpons about gay rights the bate on October 8 were wily terpreted as ditg support for some form of civil unn legislatn.

” That same year, he proposed to ncel a $19, 000 municipal grant for an arts pany that hoed a black gay theater group after he and the Assembly prohibed the group’s ad om appearg on a b.

“He has been pretty outspoken about the non-rights of gays and lbians. Republin lawmakers had sued Ulmer 1998, claimg her wordg of a state referendum qutn on gay marriage was prejudiced — Ulmer’s text said would amend the state nstutn “to lim marriage” rather than “on marriage. ” But Fk said he didn’t speak out agast Ulmer Pal’s 2002 mercial bee of the gay-rights issue particular.

SARAH PAL ON CHICK-FIL-A: REPUBLIN SHOWS SUPPORT AMID GAY RIGHTS DEBATE

Fk is forthright on gay issu.

“I’m not favor of expandg gay rights, ” he said. “I’m not favor of gay marriage.

DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?

When Fk proposed to stop municipal fundg to the Out North Contemporary Art Hoe, was featurg a show by the performance group Pomo Ao Homos lled, “Fierce Love: Stori From Black Gay Life.

DO SARAH PAL SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS?

“There was a time where they were puttg on a gay productn a cy owned buildg, ” Fk said about the issue. “I didn’t look very kdly at that… I was not favor of the cy g tax money to support gay programs. Out North Executive Director Mike Huelsman, who was appoted to his posn by Fk 1991, said the former mayor’s posn on gay rights is “actually more plex” than labelg Fk “anti-gay.

“It was clear to me that Tom Fk thought was wrong to advertise a gay theater program on cy bs, ” Huelsman said.

“She never said ‘Maybe I was wrong to support an anti-gay nstutnal amendment, '” she said. UPDATE: Tom Fk’s assertn that there was no anti-gay discrimatn Anchorage while he was mayor is pletely off the mark, acrdg to gay-activist and -founr of Out North, Jay Dugan-Brse.