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Title: Transgender Miami candidate Donna Milo: I am NOT against same-sex couples legall
Post by: Shana A on July 02, 2011, 08:08:11 AM
Post by: Shana A on July 02, 2011, 08:08:11 AM
Transgender Miami candidate Donna Milo: I am NOT against same-sex couples legally marrying
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/07/transgender-miami-candidate-donna-milo-i-am-not-against-same-sex-couples-legally-marrying.html (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/07/transgender-miami-candidate-donna-milo-i-am-not-against-same-sex-couples-legally-marrying.html)
Miami 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.
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/07/transgender-miami-candidate-donna-milo-i-am-not-against-same-sex-couples-legally-marrying.html (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/07/transgender-miami-candidate-donna-milo-i-am-not-against-same-sex-couples-legally-marrying.html)
Miami 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.