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Title: Gay Congressman takes up key post
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 09:06:41 AM
Post by: LostInTime on January 05, 2007, 09:06:41 AM
Pinknews Story (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3429.html)
In 1998, he founded the National Stonewall Democrats, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Democratic pressure group.
He has been a vocal and articulate defender of LGBT rights. Speaking out against the Federal Marriage Act, which would have amended the US Constitution to ban gay marriage, he said:
"We're told "don't take things personally", but I take this personally. I take it personally when people decide to take political batting practice with my life."
In 1998, he founded the National Stonewall Democrats, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Democratic pressure group.
He has been a vocal and articulate defender of LGBT rights. Speaking out against the Federal Marriage Act, which would have amended the US Constitution to ban gay marriage, he said:
"We're told "don't take things personally", but I take this personally. I take it personally when people decide to take political batting practice with my life."