From McClatchy Newspaper:
WASHINGTON - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the poster child for gay marriage?
A coalition of civil rights groups that back gay marriage is using photos of prominent couples like the former Republican governor and his Mexican-born wife, Columba, in an advertising campaign marking the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave interracial couples the right to marry.
The groups say they hope to use the couples and the court case to bolster their contention that marriage is a civil right that should know no bounds - even for those of the same sex.
"Jeb and Columba Bush couldn't marry today if discrimination were still the law of the land," the ad that features the former Florida first couple reads.
Bush didn't respond to a request for comment. But John Stemberger, an Orlando attorney who is spearheading a petition drive to put a gay marriage ban up for a vote in Florida in 2008, called the ads "a little bit silly." And he suggested that no laws would have prevented two people of differing ethnicities to wed.
2 comments:
Jeb, sigh, doesn't he know the GOP runs on the anti-gay theme?
What hypocrites. When is the last time that you seen Ms. Jeb Bush in public when Jeb was governor. We all know that Jeb's family are alcoholics. Who is fooling who?
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