Democrat Harold Ford, Jr. Now Supports Gay Marriage

From Towleroad.com: Last week I posted that former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr., who voted against ENDA and for the federal marriage amendment, was weighing a run for NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. The NYT wrote: "Several executives interested in a Ford candidacy said that Ms. Gillibrand’s positions echoed Mr. Schumer’s and that the state needed a second independent voice in the Senate. Mr. Ford, who lives in Manhattan, represented a conservative Southern state and, if he runs, may himself have to adjust some of his positions, like his opposition to gay marriage, to appeal to New York voters." And suddenly — out of nowhere —Ford is now for marriage equality.... The NY Post reports: "In what will likely be read as another sign of his interest in running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this year's Democratic primary, ex-Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. yesterday publicly said for the first time that he was in favor of same-sex marriage. 'He supports gay marriage, in the interest of fairness and equality,' Ford spokesman Davidson Goldin told The Post. Full Story from Towleroad.com: http://www.towleroad.com/2010/01/eyeing-senate-harold-ford-jr-suddenly-supports-marriage-equality.html

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