Maryland To The Altar } Jersey Gets a veto} A Gay politician Defends Christie

As Much disappointed that we all are about Christies' Veto in NJ, some of us are very disappointed at gay politicians and apologists that call this “ Just Political” Everything is political in politics, does that makes it not mean spirited and wrong.  Look a the dirty lube man ‘Santorum’. He is political. Can anybody excuse his words and actions as just ‘politics?


 I don’t think that making excuses for Gov. Christie  is the right thing to do. I found a good article at boyculture.typepad.com.  I think they reflect my feelings very well:
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 “"New Jersey passes marriage equality, only to have it vetoed by useless human slug Chris Christie. Disappointing, but then so was the statement put out by Steven Goldstein of New Jersey's Garden State Equality—he rightly called out Christie's veto as "a brutally anti-gay act, pure and simple," yet started out by arguing that Christie doesn't have "an anti-gay bone in his body" (it's all political) and mentioning that Christie is a straight shooter who does what he says he'll do, for better or worse.

These are the kinds of things that supporters of Christie should be pushing, not supporters of gay rights. The issue is not, "Gee, I don't know if I can vote for Christie—he's so anti-gay!" "No, girl, he's not..." (as it is sometimes with Obama), the issue is that Christie is against this issue that is very important to the vast majority of the LGBT community. Whether he's doing it for political reasons is neither here nor there.

I'm with GSE and am sure they've done more than I have on this topic, but this was a really tone-deaf statement.

But at least we got Maryland legistlatively (barely—it passed with zero votes to spare, and we owe it to a runaway bride who once co-sponsored the bill then killed it but ultimately voted for it). And Maryland's governor will be signing this puppy into law.

The article on Steve Rothaus can be found at the  Miami Herald