Gay rights emerging as issue in [Georgia]GOP primary for governor

Dan82 · Jun 9, 2010

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-bl...-for-governor/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog

If Nathan Deal has his way, gay-bashing is about to become part of the 2010 GOP gubernatorial campaign.

The July primary is expected to end without an outright winner, forcing an August runoff between frontrunner John Oxendine and a second candidate still to be determined. Deal apparently believes that former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel is his top competitor for that spot, and he has decided to use gays as a wedge issue against her.

Deal has accused Handel of supporting the right of gay couples to adopt and of joining the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group. According to Deal, Handel’s “support of gay adoption offends the conservative values of Georgians throughout the state, let alone those who vote in the Republican primary.”

Handel, to her discredit, says she opposes gay adoption and has always done so. She also claims that Southern Voice, a now defunct gay newspaper, was wrong to report in 2003 that she supported gay adoption rights. (At the time, Handel was running for Fulton County Commission chair, and gay votes are important in that race.)

On Monday, the AJC’s new PolitiFact feature attempted to get to the bottom of the dispute, in the end rating Deal’s claim about gay adoption “barely true” based on the paucity of evidence in the case. But Laura Douglas-Brown, a former writer and editor for Southern Voice, has since interviewed former Log Cabin president Marc Yeager and uncovered considerable evidence that bolsters Deal’s claim...
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Gay rights emerging as issue in [Georgia]GOP primary for governor

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