Franken, Feinstein, Durbin and Shumer let Leahy stand alone in support of gay couples
Pretty fucking shameful
WASHINGTON — Democrats left Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy standing alone Tuesday night in support of gay and lesbian couples, a stark departure from Democrats’ public face in support of marriage equality in recent months.
A little more than a month ago, marriage equality was the talk of Capitol Hill. Politicians, in Chief Justice John Roberts’ words, were “falling over themselves” to support same-sex couples’ marriage rights.
The current limits to that support were made apparent by 7 p.m. Tuesday, when Leahy withdrew his amendment to the pending immigration bill that would have allowed married same-sex couples to be treated the same as married opposite-sex couples for immigration purposes.
Leahy introduced the bill just a half-hour earlier, but then, as Immigration Equality executive director Rachel Tiven told BuzzFeed, “I was shocked — and I suspect he was too — that not a single member of that committee joined him in saying, ‘These are immigrant families, too. I care about these families.’”
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/democrats-let-sen-patrick-leahy-stand-alone-in-support-of-ga
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