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Article: Being Log Cabin Republican hard in Utah
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2004
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Gordon Storrs is a lifelong Republican, but he admits it's not
easy to align his party loyalty with the dignity he feels about being
gay.
He was among about 200 people who watched from the Utah House of
Representatives gallery earlier this year as a Republican-backed
proposal to ban same-sex marriage in the state's constitution passed,
moving on to voters.
It was Rep. Jackie Biskupski, D-Salt Lake, who recognized those
who had lobbied against the amendment. Storrs noticed that some
Republicans did not join the Democrats in a standing ovation.
"At that instant, I've been a lifelong Republican, I wanted to
leave the party," Storrs said. "They did not even give the dignity of
applauding those ...