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Democrat Gay Group Blast Sarah Palin on Homosexuality Comments



01 October 2008 @ 04:07 pm ET

The National Stonewall Democrats, a national group of homosexual Democrats, said Sarah Palin is wrong for thinking homosexuality is a "choice" and denounced the Republican Party is controlled by special "anti-gay" interests.

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"John McCain chose a poor running mate, but he did not choose his sexual orientation. This is another example of why we need a pro-equality President like Barack Obama in the White House," John Hoadley, Executive Director of the group said in a statement.

Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential pick, was asked about homosexuality at an interview with Katie Couric which aired last night. She said she wasn't going to judge Americans for the "decisions that they made" and talked about a best friend that is gay. "She is one of my best friends, who happen to have made a choice that isn't a choice I would have made. But I am not going to judge people."

"For Governor Palin to suggest that individuals randomly choose their sexual orientation based on nothing but a whim is wrong and it repeats the talking points of the anti-gay special interests which continue to control the McCain/Palin campaign and the Republican Party," Hoadley added.

The group calls itself the national voice of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied Democrats across the country that work to elect more pro-equality Democrats regardless of their sexual orientation.

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