Top Republican consultant endorses gay marriage, said it is in line with conservative principles
April 17, 2009 at 4:13 pm by Wayne GarciaSteve Schmidt was a senior advisor to Bush and has conservative credentials aplenty. He also has a lesbian sister, and so he plans to tell the Log Cabin Republicans that gay marriage is compatible with conservative Republican Party thought.
From The New York Times:
We don’t expect establishment Republicans in Washington – or establishment Democrats, for that matter – to suddenly endorse gay marriage. But in a possible sign of the momentum of the gay-marriage movement, Mr. Schmidt, who was a senior adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, last year, is promoting gay marriage this afternoon.
He endorsed same-sex marriage last month, in an interview with the Washington Blade.
Today, Mr. Schmidt, who also served as a top Bush aide, discusses the subject with the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that supports gay rights. According to CNN, he will call on conservative Republicans to drop their opposition at a lunchtime speech in Washington.
Mr. Schmidt, who has a sister who is a lesbian, plans to say that there is nothing about gay marriage that is un-American or that threatens the rights of others and that in fact it is in line with conservative principles.
