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Casey Holds Off on Gay Marriage Support
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 27, 2013 08:48pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Keegan Gibson |
| Media | Website - PoliticsPA |
| News Date | Thursday, March 28, 2013 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "In the past year, many Democrats – including President Obama – have gone from supporting civil unions to supporting gay marriage. Bob Casey is one of 10 Democrats in the U.S. Senate who has not.
As the Supreme Court weighs constitutional questions surrounding gay marriage, gay rights advocates are accelerating their lobbying for Casey to join his colleagues.
“Senator Casey has supported every other LGBT rights issue that’s come to Congress,” said Adrian Shanker, President of the gay rights advocacy group Equality Pa. “His support for civil unions was great in 2006. Now it’s time for the next step.”
“People are starting to see him as one of the last holdouts.”
4 Democratic Senators, including Mark Begich who’s up for re-election in Alaska in 2014, have switched on the issue in the past 2 days.
Most Pa. Democrats support of gay marriage, Shanker said, including former Gov. Ed Rendell, the state party, and almost every contender for Governor in 2014." |
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