GOP Sweetheart – 11/13/2009 – Don Carcieri

Posted by TomCat at 2:45 am Politics

Nov 132009

Today’s GOP Sweetheart is particularly foul.

Gov. Don Carcieri vetoed legislation Tuesday that would give same-sex couples in Rhode Island the same right to plan the funerals of their late partners as married couples.

The socially conservative Republican said the proposed protection represents a "disturbing trend" of the incremental erosion of heterosexual marriage. Rhode Island does not recognize same-sex marriage.

"If the General Assembly believes it would like to address the issue of domestic partnership, it should place the issue on the ballot and let the people of Rhode Island decide," Carcieri said in a letter to lawmakers.

Democrats hold a veto-proof majority in the Legislature and frequently override Carcieri’s objections.

Sen. Rhoda Perry and Rep. David Segal, the bill sponsors, said they would seek to override the veto. They proposed the legislation after one of their constituents was unable to retrieve the body of his late partner from the state medical examiner for weeks because they weren’t married or next-of-kin.

Gay rights supporters were indignant at the veto.

"It is absolutely unconscionable that Gov. Carcieri would step in the middle of people being able to take care of their loved ones at such a sorrowful time," said Kathy Kushnir, executive director of Marriage Equality Rhode Island, which advocates for gay marriage. "Why would he make it more difficult? I just don’t get it."…

Inserted from <Huffington Post>

Only a true GOP Sweetheart could be so heartless as to interfere with the care of a lost love one to score political points.

2 Responses to “GOP Sweetheart – 11/13/2009 – Don Carcieri”

Lisa G. says:

November 13, 2009 at 12:01 pm

I love when they fight with each other about who is more repressive – fight on!
TomCat says:

November 14, 2009 at 11:05 am

Me too, Lisa. Their desperation is showing.

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