Conservative Mich. Republican SUPPORTS Gay Unions [View All]

I came home from work, grabbed the newspaper off the porch, started dinner and read the top headline on the front page and nearly died of shock.

It seems that a very conservative, very religious, die-hard Republican lawmaker from Southwest Michigan is supporting gay unions because, quite simply, it's wrong to discriminate against homosexuals. Astounding. Unfortunately, he's being tarred and feathered. The news item appears below.

A conservative political organization is asking their Nazi followers to innundate him with faxes, emails and calls. Please consider emailing or phoning this courageous lawmaker to thank him for standing up for what's right, and for not giving in to the right-wing facists who have hijacked the Republican party.

Representative Lorence Wenke
email: lorencewenke@house.mi.gov
Lansing, MI office: 877.686.1787
Lansing, MI fax: 517.373.9119


WENKE SUPPORTS GAY UNIONS
Monday, March 1, 2004

On most matters, Lorence Wenke is a staunch conservative. The 58-year-old state representative from Richland Township opposes abortion and gun control. He backs small government and tax cuts.

A member of a fundamentalist church, he includes a verse of Scripture on his business card and participates in a Bible-study group for state legislators. One would be hard-pressed to find a more unlikely advocate for gay rights.

Yet Wenke plans to be one of perhaps only two House Republicans voting against putting on the November ballot a Marriage Protection Amendment, which would change Michigan's constitution to ban gay marriage.

*SNIP*

"I kept quiet when African-Americans were facing discrimination," he said. "There have been too many people who have been discriminated against in my lifetime, and this time I'm not going to sit quietly while somebody is being mistreated.

The entire, uplifting article can be found on the Kalamazoo Gazette website at:

http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1078163468305920.xml