Democrats add support for gay marriage to platform
On the night the Democrats became the first major U.S. political party to endorse gay marriage, some convention delegates remembered how it used to be—back in the days when, as one said, “you’re scared because it’s not OK to be who you are.”
Heather Mizeur, once a student at Blue Mound (Illinois) High, now a Maryland legislator and one of more than 500 gay delegates to the Democratic convention, said the vote September 4 approving the platform’s marriage equality plank was “one of those historic moments. It says our relationships should be treated equally.”
It also marked a turnaround from three months ago. After North Carolina voters approved a state constitutional referendum in May limiting marriage and domestic unions to heterosexuals, some Democrats called for the convention to be moved out of the state.
