GOP’s Alan Simpson backs gay marriage in ad

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Source: Politico

Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, is making the case for a “live and let live” approach to same-sex marriage in a new television ad buy targeting Western states, just as a federal appeals court in Denver prepares to take up the issue later this week.

“Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,” Simpson, of Wyoming, says in the spot.

The six-figure buy, sponsored by the pro-gay marriage group Freedom to Marry, is slated to start airing on Tuesday on national cable channels, as well as locally in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Those states are within the geographic jurisdiction of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing a gay marriage case concerning Utah on Thursday, and is set to take up another one involving Oklahoma later this month — the cases could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.




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Simpson is desperate for credibility after his "Social Security reform" debacle huh?

[Fearless]

1. Live and let live sounds good to me.

Now let's hope some fundies actually take it to heart.

[djean111]

2. I think Simpson recognizes that gay marriage is a social issue and costs nothing, but

generates good will or perhaps cloaks his real economic intentions. The marital status of those whose social security he wants to cut means nothing to him, I would bet.

[ZombieHorde]

3. This will become more common

or the GOP will fade away.

[bitchkitty]

4. Exactly.

They can see the writing on the wall. They have to (appear to) change or die. I don't trust them for a minute. Hidden hate is still hate.

[joshcryer]

5. They have no choice.

All they have in the end is the "free market." Libertarianism.

[Semivir]

6. This surprises me. Simpson is very RW.

Getting his support is very significant.