ANOTHER MISGUIDED EFFORT BY RIGHT-WING TO FOMENT ANTI-GAY …
Posted on July 18, 2008
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“Pollsters for John Kerry and George Bush, Mark Mellman and Matthew Dowd, have disavowed the idea that anti-gay voters were a factor in the 2004 election. Knowing that, candidates and voters should be skeptical of a Family Research Council-commissioned poll indicating that they are more likely to support a candidate who supports statewide amendments to ban marriage for gay and lesbian couples,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “The FRC poll is another attempt to browbeat John McCain into becoming more anti-gay.”
Voters in California, Arizona and Florida will consider ballot measures to enshrine discrimination in their states’ constitutions. Arizona voters defeated a similar initiative in 2006. In California, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced his opposition to the efforts to reverse marriage equality. California made legal marriages for gay and lesbian couples in May and began conducting marriages in June. In Florida, Governor Charlie Crist has been on both sides of the issue. He opposed spending state GOP funds on the effort to place the amendment on the ballot.
Even GOP nominee, John McCain twice voted against a federal marriage amendment, which had the very strong support of the FRC and its allies. Those votes have created a conundrum for the anti-gay organizations, hence their efforts to re-ignite the issue with a poll.
ANOTHER MISGUIDED EFFORT BY RIGHT-WING TO FOMENT ANTI-GAY …
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