Gay Donors Cutting Off Democrats Over Immigration Plan

[MNBrewer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/gay-donors-democrats_n_3355986.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Some disappointed activists say they are yanking their support for the Democratic Party after Senate Democrats opposed a proposal in an immigration bill that would have allowed citizens to bring their foreign-born, same-sex spouses to the United States.

Obama won points with activists when he endorsed same-sex marriage while running for re-election last year and then referred to it in his inauguration speech in January. Now almost every Democrat in the Senate and a few Republicans have come out supporting same-sex marriage.

But Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee helped keep a proposal out of a sweeping immigration overhaul that would have allowed citizens to petition for their same-sex spouses to immigrate to the United States - the same way that heterosexuals can be reunited with their spouses.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Backlash. Not unexpected.

I have done the same.

[hrmjustin]

2. If I had the money to give I would have stopped giving the money as well.

[MNBrewer]

3. The little I have to give

goes to Minnesota Public Radio, aid for the Moore OK tornado victims and Minnesotans United for All Families. None to the Democratic Party.

[mitchtv]

4. I generally forget about them "off season"

none for congress for a long time, now.

[Fearless]

5. Good.

[nomorenomore08]

6. Well I certainly don't blame them...