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Palin and The Gays

By The Daily Dish
Aug 29 2008, 9:58 AM ET

More detail that takes the shine off her apparent embrace of gay friends:



Some press reports following the McCain campaign announcement have repeated that right-wing rhetorical flourish that has Palin declaring that she has gay friends. That softer image is not what some Alaskans saw.

"That's just completely wrong," said Allison E. Mendel, the attorney who brought the 1999 case. "She spoke on radio programs all throughout the campaign saying, 'I want a constitutional amendment, I think these things are only for a man and a woman.' ... I don't think she's ever said a friendly word about gay people, that they ought to have health benefits like other people do or anything along those lines."

Could the McCain camp provide some of her gay friends for the record?

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