Look who’s Voting NO!

From the Richmond Times Dispatch:

Three Richmond-area House Democrats — including a Baptist minister — who supported a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage now say they’ll vote against it because it’s too broad.

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House Minority Leader Franklin P. Hall; Del. Dwight Clinton Jones, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of South Richmond; and Del. A. Donald McEachin of Henrico say the three-sentence proposal that will face state voters Nov. 7 goes far beyond simply defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

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Three other local lawmakers, who voted against the measure in the legislature, reiterated their opposition and urged Virginians to vote no — state Sens. Benjamin J. Lambert III and Henry L. Marsh III and Del. Jennifer L. McClellan, all of Richmond.

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“It’s unneeded,” said Jones, chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus. “Voting against the amendment does not suggest that an individual does not believe that a marriage is between a man and a woman.”

After further interpretation of the measure, Jones said he recognized “the unintended consequences of this amendment.”

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“Like the blind man cured by Jesus, even after much prayer, the first time I looked at this amendment, I didn’t see its breadth or its basic meanness,” he [McEachin] said. “Only after I was touched a second time was I able to see this amendment in its true light.”

Seeing the light, indeed. Volunteer and contribute today. And Vote NO on November 7.

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