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Tom Vilsack backs gay marriage -- in Iowa
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Last Edited | COSDem Dec 15, 2011 06:52pm |
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News Date | Friday, December 16, 2011 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Former Iowa Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack praised the establishment of same-sex marriage in his state -- but stopped just short of endorsing it nationwide.
"I appointed the judges -- most of the judges -- that made that decision. I think it was a good decision," Vilsack said about the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage in his state -- and provoked a furious conservative backlash and recalls of several of the justices involved.
Still, Vilsack wouldn't comment on whether that view on same-sex marriage extended nationwide.
"I don't know what that's got to do with the Secretary of Agriculture," Vilsack told POLITICO. The USDA chief said the question of gay marriage was a distraction to the issues that farmers, ranchers and rural Americans faced. |
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