Md. Senate hopefuls back gay marriageCardin, Steele oppose same-sex unions
Photo: Candidates for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat include (clockwise from top left) Kweisi Mfume, Lise Van Sustern, Allen Lichtman, Rep. Ben Cardin, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and Kevin Zeese. More of them support gay marriage than oppose it. (Washington Blade)
By ELIZABETH WEILL-GREENBERG
Washington Blade
More Democratic hopefuls seeking the Maryland U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes support marriage equality than oppose it.
Kweisi Mfume, Lise Van Susteren and Allan Lichtman support full marriage equality for gay couples. Green candidate Kevin Zeese has also announced that he supports marriage rights for gays.
Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the leading Republican...read more at Washington Blade
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4 Comments:
At 24/4/06 1:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
Unfortunately Ben Cardin, who opposes gay marriage, is the Democratic Party's establishment candidate. His weakness on this issues is reflective of the larger problem of the Democratic leadership being too weak-willed to fight for progressive values; like equality. With Van Sustren has dropping out of the race, and Mfume running a substanceless vanity campaign Maryland's GLBT community is left with only one option for a real progressive who will fight for their rights in the Senate, and that's Allan Lichtman. Lichtman won't be muzzled by party leaders who are afraid of the Republican's "culture war" rhetoric.
At 24/4/06 1:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
Theo it sounds like a giant indictment of everone BUT lichtman but where did your info?
At 24/4/06 1:57 PM,
Anonymous said…
It appears that Theo linked his post to the website of candidate Lichtman's campaign. Interpret that as you will.
At 24/4/06 2:05 PM,
Anonymous said…
InTeReStInG!
It could have just been a supporter of this candidate that chose to link to the man's site. NOT!
This reeks of blatant PoliSpam! I will not believe it...Sam I Am.
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