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heartwarming story
about a republican operative named catherine leaning
written up uh...
where was this story
i don't know i think maybe it was in uh...
washington post in new york times will put a link to it a majority dot f_m_
but this is a wonderful story of catherine leaning
republican operative
she was a hill staffer sixteen years ago
working on the defense of marriage act joma
it's a federal law that defines marriage is as between one man and one woman
and basically says that
if a state
passes a law
url price their constitution
or finds that gay people deserve the same rights as
straight people
that their marriage
need not be recognized like
every other
marriage
in any of the other
forty nine states
that may or may not recognize
at gays have the same right to marry as straight
nineteen ninety-six she was working on the hill she was engaged to a man
same sex marriage was illegal anywhere
fact he said there was nobody married it was a lot anywhere the view of gay
people it wasn't helen
wasn't neil patrick harris who was *** sex
in women riding around on motorcycles without shorts on
it wasn't uh... people that you know people that you work with just people
just like everybody else
seller says the republican staffer in nineteen ninety six
that might have been a takeoff to you
as to who the people you are working where wid
she at the time didn't think that don't know what i heard gay people in any way
even though it did not as medical leave paid for forty three thousand employees
who leave to care for same sex partner
fitted eyes health care benefits in injury benefits
at the bidding on something like twelve hundred
writes
that straight people have when they marry
she was uh...
chief counsel for the house judiciary committee's subcommittee on the
constitution
drying up that doma
and
the irony is that she was a
happily married straight women until two thousand one
at which point her husband
wanted to quit the marriage
and she says now that i think i was always been afraid to go to therapy
which she went to when her husband
because i thought they were going to say you're gay
and i didn't really want to hear it
it took her here just to tell her therapist that she'd once been with the
woman as time went on to came to terms with their sexuality and eventually
embraced
so they really to thousands
she realizes that she's gay
she ended up being a partner that she is now involved with
at the republican national convention in two thousand four where i might add
you may remember
and we can uh... linked to this uh...
to this clip
i was
nearly from out of the convention by
secret service
detained because i was holding up a sign asking to speak to a gay republican
apparently she or her partner did not see me
or apparently
at sidi a animosity
which show
intents at that convention
remember
the republicans brought out their electoral strength by
putting all of these anti-gay marriage
ballot amendments on i think in ten
to fifteen states
tomorrow they their electoral base
the anti-gay sentiment that is such part and parcel of the republican party
as of way of winning uh... their election
elect orillia smart strategy
but the notion
but this woman would continue to work as a republican operative
now supposedly advocating as a
lobbyists
to repeal that law that she did
and should receive praise for it
is ridiculous
you're still supporting a party
that has in its d_n_a_
the idea that gay people
as second-class citizens
and i have no doubt
but in another ten or twelve years
if the republican party doesn't realize that it's not now electoral interest
which i'm sure they will point but if they didn't do you have
another
so-called come to jesus moment
we realize like while i guess it was sort of wrong for me
to support that political party
that was basically saying i was a second-class citizen
i don't know what it will take
but i am agin that will happen
and then
you could have another story written about you how
really really seen the light this time
i'm so tired
of these stories of people who want to redeem themselves
after they're in a position to do something
ten mellman grew right
great to see that you're working now
to undo everything you worked upon before
but i'm sorry
that still doesn't put you back at par
in my estimation