No Mother’s Day Present For Maine’s Rep. Sherly Briggs:Â Lawmaker Stands Up, Tell Lesbian Daughter She Will Not Vote For Gay Marriage.
In yesterday’s highly-emotional same-sex marriage debate in Maine’s legislature, Rep. Sherly Briggs, of Mexico, Maine, told her lesbian daughter and the world, “Ethically it is my duty and responsibility to publicly say to my daughter that I do not support gay marriage.” Through tears and pauses, Rep. Briggs explained to relationship to her daughter to her peers,
“I have kept my personal feelings on this matter separate … She has never ever heard me express my opposition to this in her life … I would never hurt her. I would got to end of the earth for her. But because I feel so strongly about opposed to this bill, blame it on my upbringing or the good book. … I can’t change how I feel…”
The governor signed the bill today, after it passed with Rep. Brigg’s ‘no’ vote, 89-57.