Now It’s Susan Collins’ Turn To Support Marriage Equality
Click here for reuse options!Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday announced her support for gay marriage for the first time after getting an endorsement from the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization in her bid for reelection.
“A number of states, including my home state of Maine, have now legalized same-sex marriage, and I agree with that decision,” the Maine Republican said in a statement issued after several news organizations made inquiries.
Collins joins three other GOP senators who have said they support gay marriage: Illinois’ Mark Kirk, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Ohio’s Rob Portman.
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By: Cheston Catalano
Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.
10 responses to Now It’s Susan Collins’ Turn To Support Marriage Equality
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William June 26th, 2014 at 12:12
Maine’s first lady of bipartisan achievement. She’s a Republican. I voted for her. Guess who else loves her? Unions. Bath ironworkers Unions to be exact. Susan clearly reflects the independent tradition of Maine politics. She doesn’t vote party lines. She votes what her constituents tell her to vote. In Maine it’s not at all unusual to support a candidate without knowing (or caring) what their affiliation is.
William June 26th, 2014 at 12:12
Maine’s first lady of bipartisan achievement. She’s a Republican. I voted for her. Guess who else loves her? Unions. Bath ironworkers Unions to be exact. Susan clearly reflects the independent tradition of Maine politics. She doesn’t vote party lines. She votes what her constituents tell her to vote. In Maine it’s not at all unusual to support a candidate without knowing (or caring) what their affiliation is.
Stan Ubeki June 26th, 2014 at 14:08
So she is bipartisan AND bipolar? ;)
Stan Ubeki June 26th, 2014 at 14:08
So she is bipartisan AND bipolar?
madashellnow June 26th, 2014 at 22:28
Thank the liberals, first same sex marriage, now this:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-lawmaker-Pedophilia-is-like-homosexuality-5576632.php
madashellnow June 26th, 2014 at 22:28
Thank the liberals, first same sex marriage, now this:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NC-lawmaker-Pedophilia-is-like-homosexuality-5576632.php
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 09:36
It was only a matter of time. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and effectively upheld a lower court ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8, state gay-marriage bans have been falling like dominoes as one federal court after another has declared them unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Now a federal appeals court has struck down Utah’s ban. I would not be surprised if the Supreme Court — based on its precedents in Loving v. Virginia (1967), Romer v. Evans (1996) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003) — refused to hear appeals by gay-marriage opponents and let the appeals court ruling stand — which would effectively render all the remaining bans unenforceable.
With public opinion now showing solid majorities of Americans supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples — overwhelmingly so among young people under 30 — there’s no turning back now. Those who remain opposed do so purely out of anti-gay spite, with many stubbornly clinging to the particularly pernicious stereotype of gay men being sexually promiscuous — a stereotype that the movement toward marriage equality has thoroughly debunked.
For any politician to continue to oppose marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is to stand on the wrong side of history — and risk being compared to those who opposed interracial marriage a half-century ago.
SkeeterVT June 29th, 2014 at 09:36
It was only a matter of time. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and effectively upheld a lower court ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8, state gay-marriage bans have been falling like dominoes as one federal court after another has declared them unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Now a federal appeals court has struck down Utah’s ban. I would not be surprised if the Supreme Court — based on its precedents in Loving v. Virginia (1967), Romer v. Evans (1996) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003) — refused to hear appeals by gay-marriage opponents and let the appeals court ruling stand — which would effectively render all the remaining bans unenforceable.
With public opinion now showing solid majorities of Americans supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples — overwhelmingly so among young people under 30 — there’s no turning back now. Those who remain opposed do so purely out of anti-gay spite, with many stubbornly clinging to the particularly pernicious stereotype of gay men being sexually promiscuous — a stereotype that the movement toward marriage equality has thoroughly debunked.
For any politician to continue to oppose marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is to stand on the wrong side of history — and risk being compared to those who opposed interracial marriage a half-century ago.
mmaynard119 June 30th, 2014 at 20:41
Well, good for her. Now she and Olympia Snowe can make it official.
mmaynard119 June 30th, 2014 at 20:41
Well, good for her. Now she and Olympia Snowe can make it official.