Posted on 08/25/2010 3:58:16 PM PDT by LonelyCon
Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.
Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.
"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago."
Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman voiced support for civil unions and told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush "was no homophobe." He often wondered why gay voters never formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called "the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now."
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This explains a lot.
Great comments - really a stand-alone article.
And it appears tommyk5 has left the building.
I think that’s about the 15th pro-homosexual agenda troll banned since Prop 8 got (temporarily) overturned. That I’ve seen.
And there’s plenty more where he came from.
When one gets banned the others shut up for a while. At least on that thread.
I re-read your comments. BTTT.
You should save these and any time anyone accuses conservatives of “hatred” or “bigotry” you should post it again.
To God be all glory.
That is the truth, my friend. And those who want to be close to him get some reflection shone on them - it is all His light nonetheless, but we can shine just a bit, in His light.
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