Gay Marriage Foe To Run For Congress

[Cannikin]

(Boston, Massachusetts) A man parachuted into Massachusetts to organize the campaign against same-sex marriage is now eyeing a run for Congress on the GOP ticket.

Ron Crews, the head of the Massachusetts Family Institute, is seeking the seat now held by four-term Democratic Rep. James P. McGovern.

Crews is a former evangelical minister and Army chaplain. Originally from Georgia, he moved to Massachusetts four years ago to head the conservative lobby group.

He has been the leading spokesperson against same-sex marriage and became a darling of the right following the state supreme court ruling last year that paved the way for gays to marry in May.


http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/04/041104massCong.htm

[JohnKleeb]

1. waste of money :)

[Doomsayer13]

2. what a theme - intolerance

sadly, wont be the first time somebody's ran and won based on hate

[JohnKleeb]

3. he wont win

McGovern may have won close races his first two years but those republicans were prolly more moderate number 1 and number 2 he has been unopposed for the past 2 terms, and Gore got 59% there, one of his more lower totals in MA but solid still.

[Lexingtonian]

4. not a chance

But it will give Crews a platform from which to push his anti-gay marriage agenda. And, if I remember correctly, the state senate seat held by Cheryl Jacques- now heading Human Rights Campaign, the chief pro-gm organization- and now being run for by Angus McQuilken (he was her chief of staff, and is also gay) again is in that House District. McQuilken lost the special election for that usually Republican seat (a few decrepit mill towns in the Blackstone Valley, on the northern Rhode Island border) by 0.5% of the vote last month.

On the whole and as mere politics, it's all part of an effort by Mitt Romney and the Mass. Republican Party to become competitive again- they've been raising oodles of money and recruiting better, but mostly just more and louder, Republican candidates for the state Legislature in particular. Rural Repubs are getting as militantly stupid as in the rest of the country here in Mass., and there are some older suburbs full of elderly, traditionalistic, second generation Catholic immigrants being represented by sort of corrupt and not too bright conservative Old Democrats that are fairly ripe for the knocking off.

Not that there is any serious danger to the Democratic majorities, I think, but if a bunch of these conservatives get knocked off it could mean Tom Finneran runs out of sufficient lackeys to remain Speaker.