Gay candidates getting support that gay issues do not

[Louisiana1976]

HOUSTON — When an openly gay woman won the mayor’s race here this month, it was the latest in a string of victories by gay candidates across the country, a trend that seems to contradict the bans on same-sex marriage that have been passed in most states in recent years.

Take Texas, by many measures one of the most conservative states in the nation. In 2005, it enacted a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage; the voters passed the referendum by a ratio of three to one.

Yet in the last decade, an openly gay woman has twice won election as the sheriff in Dallas County, and another openly gay woman was elected district attorney in Travis County, which includes the city of Austin. Gay candidates have also won city council seats in Austin, Fort Worth and Houston.

Then, this month, Annise Parker, the city controller who is a lesbian, swept to a solid victory in the mayoral race in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/28candidates.html?ref=us

[nofurylike]

1. who could think that getting lgbtqits elected is not one of those

"gay issues"???? funny that, don't you think?

this is how change happens.

other way around, someone would find fault in that too.

it is happening, though.


thank you for posting this.


peace and solidarity

[Bluenorthwest]

2. To me, the title is nonsense

Electing gay people is a gay issue. Clearly.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. its the whole vs the one. even homophobic people are nicer to gays they personally know

its easier to vote away rights for the anonymous rather than the known

even though americans elected obama, i am pretty sure if race related issues were on the ballot, a lot of them would be voted away

we can connect to an individual differently than we do to a group

[jonnyblitz]

4. sort of like how Andrew Sullivan can support President Obama

yet he can also believe that african americans are genetically less intelligent per "The Bell Curve".

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. yup

[xchrom]

7. +1

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Rec # 5... nt