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Article: Miami heat: an antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.(Christian Coalition and Miami's Cuban-American population lobby for gay rights)
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- The Nation
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- September 16, 2002
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When the Christian Coalition began to look around three years ago for constituencies to support the repeal of Miami's gay-rights law, they might have cast hungry looks at the area's Cubans. After all, Miami's Cuban-Americans are famous around the world for the degree of their right-wing tilt; on communism and Cuba, if they went much further to the right they would fall over.
Instead, with matters coming to a head and a repeal measure going before voters on September 10, something strange and wonderful has happened: A large number of right-wing Cubans have come out firmly in support of lesbian and gay civil rights.
Miami-Dade County's gay rights law was ...