Posted on 09/20/2007 6:09:16 PM PDT by kellynla
SAN DIEGO – Mayor Jerry Sanders abruptly reversed his public opposition to same-sex marriage Wednesday after revealing his adult daughter is gay.
Sanders also signed a City Council resolution supporting a legal fight to overturn California's prohibition on same-sex marriages. He previously said he would veto the resolution.
Sanders, a Republican former police chief, told reporters that he could no longer back the position he took during his election campaign two years ago, when he said he favored civil unions but not full marriage rights for homosexual couples.
"Two years ago, I believed that civil unions were a fair alternative," he said at a press conference. "Those beliefs, in my case, have since changed. The concept of a 'separate but equal' institution is not something that I can support."
He fought back tears as he said he wanted his adult daughter, Lisa, and other gay people he knows to have their relationships protected equally under state laws.
"In the end, I could not look any of them in the face and tell them that their relationships – their very lives – were any less meaningful than the marriage that I share with my wife Rana," Sanders said.
The mayor, who is up for re-election next year, acknowledged that many voters who supported his earlier stance may disagree, but said he had to do what he believed was right.
Lisa Sanders was unavailable for comment, according to the mayor's spokesman, Fred Sainz. He said she had told her parents four years ago that she is a lesbian and is currently in a committed relationship, but her orientation wasn't public until her father's speech.
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Romans 1:26-27
“Mayor Jerry Sanders abruptly reversed his public opposition to same-sex marriage Wednesday after revealing his adult daughter is gay.”
Just because your kids’ a prevert don’t mean you have to attack the institutions of this society.
Sanders has become a disaster. He ran a good campaign, said all the right things and have failed totally once in office.
I think even Roger Hedgecock has given up on him.
I feel sorry for the man.
what a Mary
He is disgusting.
Good grief, his daughter really did a number on him.
Limp wristed out of a reasoned decision.
You know, it’s pretty sad when you let your daughter influence decisions that affect an entire city. Deal with your family delimmas at home, not in the middle of a press conference. San Diego got suckered by this guy.
This pathetic mayor wants gays to find mates. How telling is this statement?
When I married my wife 29 years ago, it wasn’t to mate.
Homosexuality is all about sexual gratification by mentally unstable individuals.
Let’s hope he gets kicked out of office.
1 gay on the city council. Not a bunch.
You will find them in everything from the military to the LDS
He’s over next election.
There are so many other things this guy has screwed royally as well.
homosexulity is a DISORDER, It CAN be treated unless those who do the “treating” are mentally INSANE...(or scared) homosexuality has done NOTHING for any civilized society EXCEPT destroy it...GET REAL! There are too many folks getting their brains washed with contaminated information. “They that touch pitch will be defiled.” (Shakespeare)... whether they are related or not.
He’s a weenie.
“...said all the right things and have failed totally once in office.”
Strange - City finances were the major topic of the last election, and his opponants solutions were raising taxes or bankruptcy. He has avoided both of these options and the City is headed back to sound finances.
“He’s over next election.”
So what’s your call, the millionare carpetbagger or the liberal surfer chick ?
“So what’s your call, the millionare carpetbagger or the liberal surfer chick ?”
Cheer me up why dontchya?
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