Alabama’s first openly-gay state lawmaker has strong words for her “family values” colleagues who are attacking same-sex marriage.
This weekend, Democrat Patricia Todd (photo, left, with her wife) issued a strong warning to her colleagues who oppose Friday’s federal decision striking down Alabama’ ban on same-sex marriage.
“I will not stand by and allow legislators to talk about ‘family values’ when they have affairs, and I know of many who are and have,” Todd, the state’s first and only openly gay lawmaker, said on Facebook, according to the Decateur Daily. “I will call our elected officials who want to hide in the closet out.”
“It is pretty well known that we have people in Montgomery who are or have had affairs,” Todd says. “I just want them to be careful what they’re saying, some of it might come back to stick on them.”
Todd said she hurt and angered by some of the remarks and backlash she has heard since Friday.
“But I know I’m on the side that is going to win and I’m sorry they’re so ignorant,†she said.
First elected in 2006, Todd is beginning her third term in office. She also serves as the the associate director of AIDS Alabama. Her campaign website notes that “Rep. Todd and her wife Jennifer will be filing their state taxes as a married couple and encourage all other legally married same gender couples to do the same.” The couple married in Provincetown in 2013.
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