Posted on 06/19/2013 6:32:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska publicly backed gay marriage on Wednesday, becoming the third Republican senator to do so as she spoke out ahead of potentially landmark rulings from the Supreme Court on the issue.
Murkowski, 56, wrote in an essay posted on her Senate website that her decision was swayed, in part, by meeting a lesbian couple from Anchorage, one of whom was in the National Guard, who had adopted four children.
"This first-class Alaskan family still lives a second-class existence," Murkowski said in her essay.
Her announcement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a challenge to California's ban on gay marriage and a separate lawsuit targeting a provision of federal law that denies same-sex couples certain benefits.
She joins Republican Senators Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois who earlier this year joined dozens of Democratic senators who support gay marriage. Twelve of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage.
Public opinion polls show a majority of Americans believe gay couples should have the right to wed, and Murkowski said in her essay that her decision was consistent with attitudes of "more and more Alaskans," especially the young.....
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Murkowski is Eskimo for..... sleeping with dogs.
In a statement released a little later, she further explained her shift, rooting it in the libertarianism that has become popular among some elements of the GOP. “If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans — our true north — it is less government and more freedom. We don’t want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don’t need it in our families.”
Democrats elected Murcowski, she is not a Republican.
“Murkowski, 56, wrote in an essay posted on her Senate website that her decision was swayed, in part, by meeting a lesbian couple from Anchorage, one of whom was in the National Guard, who had adopted four children. “
How “Rob Portman” of her.
Thank you. The truth is a beautiful and sacred thing.
LLS
I’d always thought of her as a scrawny guy
Don’t thank me. Thank God.
Senator Murkowski opposes God...not you unless you agree with her and since you are a Freeper I doubt you agree with her...just saying
Freegards
LEX
There are too many things for us to fight..too many “fronts”.
We need to pick one and overcome it.
Gay marriage only hurts those who approve and indulge in it. We should have bigger fish to fry. We can take care of social decay when the country is safe.
Like that will happen....
The Murkowski family needs to be purged from the Republican party in Alaska. They are corrupt and she is as Fugly on the outside as she is ugly on the inside. She’s nothing but a Democrat.
Alaska can sure pop out them ‘good lookers’ unfortunately, she isn’t one of them. Go Sarah, go Sarah, Go Sarah, GO!!!
Those people, with those expressions, look like they are from New York... Are they?
I do every day... many times... but you also deserve credit for posting it.
LLS
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