Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Gov. Crist To GOP: Stop Spending Money On Anti-Gay Marriage Initiative
ARE YOU LISTENING GOVERNOR DANIELS?
At least one Republican governor in the country, Florida Gov. Charlies Crist, is telling his fellow Republicans to get their priorities straight and stop spending money pushing anti-gay marriage initiatives. Although Crist supported the initiative efforts in the past, he's had a change of heart since becoming the state's governor. The Miami Herald's Marc Caputo writes:
Republican Gov. Charlie Crist said today his political party should spend its time and money on issues that are ''more pressing'' than the anti-gay marriage initiative it has funded for the past two years.
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Crist signed the petition and publicly endorsed the measure. Beyond that, though, he says he has other things to worry about.<snip>
Mat Staver, an attorney who argued for the amendment before the Florida Supreme Court, said Crist's statement was not a retreat from his pledge of support for the amendment. But he thinks Crist is wrong about whether the amendment is a priority.
More:
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2007/02/gov-crist-to-gop-stop-spending-money-on.htmlAlso:
Is Charlie Crist gay?
by naufragus
Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 02:22:45 PM PST
"Is Charlie Crist gay?", asks the Orlando Weekly.
Why does it matter? Isn't his personal business? As a commentor at BlogActive notes:
Because you support a political platform which defines homosexuals such as Charlie Crist as belonging to a dangerous 'lifestyle' and a threat to children. And you support a Party which is currently trying to add anti-gay discrimination into the Constitution of the United States of America. Hello.
Charlie Crist's materials say:
When the institution of marriage was under attack, Attorney General Charlie Crist successfully defended Florida's Defense of Marriage Act. Charlie strongly supports Second Amendment rights and advocates policies that strengthen Florida families.Mike Rogers of BlogActive took him at his word and called the Crist campaign and asked about adoption.
"He believes that the best home for a child is one with a mother and father. He will not support a repeal of Florida's ban on gay adoptions."This has pissed Mike off and he is asking people to come forward about Crist's "lifestye choices".
More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/28/172245/590Also:
October 21, 2006
Charlie Crist, meet Mark Foley
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Crist has danced around whether he favors repealing Florida's uniquely cruel ban on single gay adults adopting children, and whether he favors basic non-discrimination legislation.
But he has come out in favor of hate crime laws and school bullying protections that specifically target anti-gay harassment.
That gay rights record is in the same ballpark as another closeted Florida Republican: disgraced Congressman Mark Foley. In fact, the two have known each other for decades. The thumbnail photo here was snapped by Ocala Pride, an ironically named non-gay publication in Ocala, Fla.<snip>
As Linn has pointed out, every time Crist gets "the question," he's been asked, "Are you gay?" (or a homo). No one has asked if he's bisexual. If he is, or if that's his story and he's sticking to it, then his answers are Clintonian half-truths, he of the drug-use denial: "I have never broken the laws of this country" (turns out he smoked pot, but famously never inhaled, in England); and "I never had sex with that woman" (turns out he didn't consider fellatio to be oral sex).
But Crist's mixed gay rights record, and backing from anti-gay Christian conservatives, isn't the only basis for raising his sexual orientation as a legitmate campaign issue. As Floridians have seen up close and personal with Foley-gate, secrets surrounding sexual orientation can have a debilitating effect on the judgment of their elected officials.
More:
http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2006/10/charlie_crist_m.html