Conservative Mich. Republican SUPPORTS Gay Unions

[Obamarama]

I came home from work, grabbed the newspaper off the porch, started dinner and read the top headline on the front page and nearly died of shock.

It seems that a very conservative, very religious, die-hard Republican lawmaker from Southwest Michigan is supporting gay unions because, quite simply, it's wrong to discriminate against homosexuals. Astounding. Unfortunately, he's being tarred and feathered. The news item appears below.

A conservative political organization is asking their Nazi followers to innundate him with faxes, emails and calls. Please consider emailing or phoning this courageous lawmaker to thank him for standing up for what's right, and for not giving in to the right-wing facists who have hijacked the Republican party.

Representative Lorence Wenke
email: [e-mail]
Lansing, MI office: 877.686.1787
Lansing, MI fax: [phone]


WENKE SUPPORTS GAY UNIONS
Monday, March 1, 2004

On most matters, Lorence Wenke is a staunch conservative. The 58-year-old state representative from Richland Township opposes abortion and gun control. He backs small government and tax cuts.

A member of a fundamentalist church, he includes a verse of Scripture on his business card and participates in a Bible-study group for state legislators. One would be hard-pressed to find a more unlikely advocate for gay rights.

Yet Wenke plans to be one of perhaps only two House Republicans voting against putting on the November ballot a Marriage Protection Amendment, which would change Michigan's constitution to ban gay marriage.

*SNIP*

"I kept quiet when African-Americans were facing discrimination," he said. "There have been too many people who have been discriminated against in my lifetime, and this time I'm not going to sit quietly while somebody is being mistreated.

The entire, uplifting article can be found on the Kalamazoo Gazette website at:

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1078163468305920.xml

[pinto]

1. What a great story. I'm "tired" of the debate (as a gay man), but couldn't

help getting a little emotional at the man's support, the risk it poses for him and his reasoned arguments based on his belief. Love that he also says it's not the big issue for him as a politician...
Thanks for the post.

[roguevalley]

2. sent him an email. thank you for letting me have a chance to support him.

[drfemoe]

3. Good News

Blessed be the day when actions speak louder than "labels".

[Obamarama]

4. Now I feel bad for all the times I maligned him....

I always just assumed he was my enemy because of his political affiliation, his conservative background and his religious convictions.

Never judge a book by its cover never seemed so true as it does now.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. A Christian following Jesus' example?

Imagine that!