September 20, 2007
San Diego’s Repub Mayor Has Lesbian Daughter… And Change of Heart
From the Lompoc Record:
Mayor Jerry Sanders abruptly reversed his public opposition to marriage for same-sex partners and signed a City Council resolution supporting a challenge to California’s gay marriage ban after revealing his adult daughter is a lesbian.
Sanders, who previously promised to veto the Council resolution, said Wednesday that he could no longer back the position he took during his election campaign two years ago, when he said he favored civil unions but not full marriage rights for homosexual couples.
The mayor, a Republican former police chief, fought back tears as he said he wanted his adult daughter, Lisa, and other gay people he knows to have their relationships protected equally under state laws.
“In the end, I could not look any of them in the face and tell them that their relationships — their very lives — were any less meaningful than the marriage that I share with my wife Rana,” Sanders said.
Filed under: California, Marriage, Republicans
