I'm glad former congressman Kweisi Mfume, one of the leading Democratic candidates for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, has endorsed marriage rights for gay couples. However, his endorsement would be more likely to sway the uncommitted if his own record on marriage had been more, let's say, supportive (i.e., Mfume has fathered five children out of wedlock with four different women). His more recent behavior has also been less than exemplary on the marriage front.
True, Mfume is certainly less of a hypocrite than gay marriage
opponents such as Bob Barr, the former Georgia congressman who
pushed the Defense of Marriage Act prohibiting federal recognition
of gay unions, which led many to wonder which of his three
marriages (via two divorces) he was defending. Still, supporters
like Mfume aren't very likely to advance the cause.
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