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KingFlorez

(12,689 posts)
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 12:07 PM Feb 2013

Brief Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Gets More Republican Support

Last edited Wed Feb 27, 2013, 01:56 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/us/politics/gay-marriage-brief-gets-more-republican-support.html

The list of Republicans on the brief now tallies more than 100, organizers say. It now includes Beth Myers, who ran Mr. Romney’s 2008 campaign and was a senior adviser to him in 2012, and Marilyn Musgrave, a retired Colorado congresswoman who was once rated the most conservative member of the House by the American Conservative Union.

Ms. Musgrave, who lost her bid for a fourth term in 2008, was an unsuccessful sponsor of a constitutional amendment to bar same-sex couples from marrying; she once warned that if gay couples were allowed to wed, “the next step is polygamy or group marriage.”


Very surprising news. Update: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/marilyn-musgrave-gay-marriage_n_2773986.html
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Brief Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Gets More Republican Support (Original Post) KingFlorez Feb 2013 OP
Post removed Post removed Feb 2013 #1
She used to be my congresswoman. backscatter712 Feb 2013 #5
She was notoriously homophobic...what happened to her? joeybee12 Feb 2013 #2
Evidently evil musgrave sees this as a gambit to get back on stage abbeyco Feb 2013 #3
Unfortunately, Musgrave has said that the NYT article is false. n/t JackBeck Feb 2013 #4
Wouldn't be surprising. (edit: Confirmed.) backscatter712 Feb 2013 #6
seemed too good to be true that she had a change of heart fizzgig Feb 2013 #7

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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
2. She was notoriously homophobic...what happened to her?
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 12:14 PM
Feb 2013

Series-ly, did she come out or something? I'm being only slightly sracastic...there must have been something dramatic for such a 180 turn.

abbeyco

(1,555 posts)
3. Evidently evil musgrave sees this as a gambit to get back on stage
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 01:25 PM
Feb 2013

Not really sure why mean old marilyn would bother to give her opinion unless she's thinking of getting back in the game. Maybe she didn't hear it loudly enough that she's not wanted to represent Colorado EVER again.

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