Must Read: My Heartbreaking Denver GOTV Story
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I knock on the door and introduce myself as Mike a volunteer for the Obama campaign. Surprisingly Jill, a white woman who looks to be in her 50s, asks me to come in. I do.
I notice immediately that Jill seems a tad emotional. She tells me that she voted for Obama in 2008 and intended to vote for him in 2012, but that she's a Christian and 2 weeks ago her church told her not to vote for Obama.
She told me that her church told her she could not vote for Obama because he is for abortion and he is for the gays. She said she didn't know what to do, or how to vote.
She asked me to sit down on the sofa and she sat down next to me.
I told her
Jill, let me give you some information and let's cover this one at a time. Let me first talk to you about President Obama and his decision and his position on marriage equality, what you call the gay issue. Jill, President Obama made a decision as president about a year or so ago that his administration would no longer support the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [snip] And subsequent to that decision a Federal Court ruled DOMA to be unconstitutionally discriminatory. Also, the President now supports Marriage Equality in states like mine, Washington, where we have an initiative on the ballot.
Jill, President Obama is not for abortion. You may have heard that some Republicans running for Congress have said that they believe the government has the right to tell a woman who has been raped that she must carry that pregnancy to term. Jill, the President believes that the government does not have the right to tell a woman what to do or not to do with her own body. And Jill, one of the reasons I flew here is because I don't believe a gray faced man with a 2 dollar haircut has any business telling a woman what to do with her body. (h/t Tina Fey).
At this point Jill tells me "I was raped. When I was younger I was raped. What I did was wrong. I learned this at my church. My church told me that Obama is for abortion and with the gays because he is a Muslim and wants to destroy our country."
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