Transgender Miami candidate Donna Milo: I am NOT against same-sex couples legally marrying
BY STEVE ROTHAUS,
srothaus@MiamiHerald.comhttp://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/07/transgender-miami-candidate-donna-milo-i-am-not-against-same-sex-couples-legally-marrying.htmlMiami City Commission candidate Donna Milo -- a conservative Republican, Cuban-American, transgender woman -- got herself into hot water last year during a run for Congress when gay SiriusXM radio journalist Michelangelo Signorile asked her position on marriage equality.
"I view marriage as a religious sacrament," Milo told Signorile during his May 21, 2010, program. "I believe that marriage, at this time, the way my definition, marriage is a man and a woman, but I support domestic partnerships for all consenting adults.
Now running for the Miami Commission District 2 seat held by incumbent Marc Sarnoff, Milo says she's bothered that when her name is Googled, the second headline to pop up: Donna Milo Is Against Gay Marriage – Even Though She Once Had One.
