Oklahoma Democrats Walk Out on Antigay Vote

[William769]

More than half of Oklahoma's 29 House Democrats walked out of the chamber rather than vote on a resolution to affirm the state's definition of marriage as union of one man and one woman Tuesday, reports the Associated Press.

Oklahoma voters passed a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality in 2004, but that wasn't a strong enough condemnation for Rep. Bob Cleveland. Cleveland says he authored the resolution to reaffirm the state's exclusionary definition in light of President Obama's support for marriage equality and the two related cases heard by the Supreme Court in March.

The state House voted 84-0 in favor of the resolution Tuesday, when Cleveland told Oklahoma City's KOCO TV that he received no negative feedback from fellow representatives.

"I have not heard from any of my colleagues," said Cleveland. "And there was some people that didn't vote, but they- I don't know whether they didn't vote for a particular reason, or they just weren't there."

But the state's only out gay legislator, Democratic Rep. Kay Floyd, says her party's silence spoke louder than words ever could have.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2013/04/10/watch-oklahoma-democrats-walk-out-antigay-vote

[LonePirate]

1. 13 Dems voted for this garbage

I expect these types of votes from right wing assholes. I do not expect them from so many elected Democrats, even in a backwards, bigoted, red state like Oklahoma. And I say that as a progressive living in the backwards, bigoted, red state just to the north.