Pelosi pushes anti-gay veep candidate
August 4th, 2008
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguably the LGBT community’s most powerful straight political ally, is supporting an anti-gay Texas congressman in the Democratic presidential veepstakes, The Associated Press reports.
Pelosi says she wants Chet Edwards (pictured above), a Democrat from Waco who’s been in the House since 1990, to be Sen. Barack Obama’s running mate. “I hope he will be the nominee,” Pelosi said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Edwards scored a 15 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s most recent Congressional Scorecard, putting him in a three-way tie for least gay-friendly among 11 Democratic House members from Texas. Among other things, Edwards, a Southern Baptist, supported the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006.
“As a husband and a father, I believe that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman and I will support efforts in C0ngress to protect the sanctity of this union,” Edwards said in a press release posted on his Web site.
The press release notes that Edwards also supported the Marriage Protection Act in 2004 and the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Pelosi and Reid are such worthless losers. They should have their ass impeached for not doing what they were elected to do. They are all that is wrong with the Democratic party.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Pelosi has completely lost her mind. You can tell she is not all there. I watched her interview on The View and she refuses to answer anything. She has done nothing as Speaker of the House. Just what we need a damned Baptist for Vice President. It is pretty damn scary when 4 more years of Bush start to sound good.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Chet’s bigotry makes me really hot and bothered. Hopefully he doesnt mind a temptuous tranny every once in a blue moon.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:43 am
[...] The Dallas Voice points out today, however, that the man she wants Obama to pick for his VP is decidedly anti-gay. [...]
August 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am
[...] The Dallas Voice points out today, however, that the man she wants Obama to pick for his VP is decidedly anti-gay. [...]
August 11th, 2008 at 9:41 am
[...] Edwards’ lack of support for the LGBT community, which has been widely reported since I first broke the news here last week. For gays, it appears Edwards has joined Sam Nunn on the short list of those we hope [...]