Washington Blade Runs Article About US Senate Candidate (Maryland) Donna Edwards

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Edwards publicly spoke in support of Maryland’s same-sex marriage law that then-Gov. Martin O’Malley signed in 2012. Voters in the same year upheld the statute in a referendum. “It’s from my fundamental value system, which is that you can’t have different categories of equality,” Edwards told the Blade. “Whenever inequality pops up, you have to smack back at it.” Edwards, who is a congregant at Fort Foote Baptist Church in Fort Washington, acknowledged to the Blade that her pastor “completely disagrees with my views on marriage equality.” She said that he nevertheless supports her “overwhelmingly anyway” because she “was straight forward with them and that I didn’t dance around the issues.” Edwards told the Blade that she also met with other pastors in her district before her 2008 election to explain her position on LGBT-specific issues. “It’s hard to concede that you get elected without the support of those pastors and those communities,” she said. “I looked at them and I said to them I could give you an answer that kind of dances around things, but I’m going to tell you that I support equality wherever there is inequality.”

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1. “I looked at them and I said to them I could give you an answer that kind of dances around things,

but I’m going to tell you that I support equality wherever there is inequality.”