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    Newt Gingrich's Gay Half-Sister Is Voting for Obama

    Newt Gingrich's Gay Half-Sister Is Voting for Obama

    Ouch, Newt Gingrich's gay sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones told Rachel Maddow yester-night that she wouldn't be voting for her brother should he snag the nomination--her snag being his anti-gay rights position. Not having your own relative give you an endorsement sounds a bit rough.  But Gingrich-Jones, Newt's half-sister, is and has historically been a vocal advocate for gay rights and and is one of the directors of the Human Rights Campaign's youth outreach program. "He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues," Candace Gingrich-Jones told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (video below), adding that she and her half-brother are "mutually respectful" of each other--which is helpful considering he didn't attend her wedding and that come election time, she is planning to "work really, really hard to make sure that President Obama is re-elected next year no matter who the Republican candidate is."  And "mutual respect" must come into play when your brother recently told Iowans that marriage equality "is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I think that it is just fundamentally goes against everything we know." Maddow noted that Jones-Gingrich hasn't been afraid to voice her dissent with her brother's conservative views, dating back to when he was Speaker of the House. "At the end of the day, we are a family and that's important," she said. "The catch is that when we leave the dinner table or leave the Christmas gathering, you know he and Callista still have way more rights than my wife and Rebecca and I do."

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    191 comments

    • James  •  Cicero, United States  •  5 mths ago
      I know a gay guy who is voting for his pet monkey. . . . how is this news ?
    • michael  •  5 mths ago
      A homosexual is voting for the party of homosexuals, democrats. Makes sense to me.
    • euripies  •  5 mths ago
      I'm voting the same person as the dog in the left hand corner is voting for and i know who the ripper wants to bite!!!!
    • Just B  •  Easton, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Really?? Does it really matter who your step brother's mother's cousin twice removed sister's brother in law's father is voting for in the news today? Honestly!

      I know the gay rights thing is a touchy subject and yes, is news to some people, but don't get "who they are voting for" involved! It is obvious on some subjects who is not voting for what in those regards, especially when you mention gay rights.. Sure isn't Republicans you'd vote in; maybe an Independent? NOOO... Democrats!
    • SteveB  •  Zelienople, United States  •  5 mths ago
      I would not expect a gay half sister to vote any other way! WHO CARES WHAT THIS CARPET CLEANER DOES?
    • Groucho Marxist  •  Guangzhou, China  •  5 mths ago
      "Newt Gingrich's Gay Half-Sister Is Voting for Obama" assumes that Obama will win his own primary. With his popularity spiraling into the abyss, we shouldn't assume he's going to be the one to beat next year.
    • Earthling '75  •  5 mths ago
      I am voting for Ron Paul
    • Donate Life  •  5 mths ago
      My neighbor's third cousin is voting for Ron Paul.
    • Arnold P  •  Tampa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Hey, there was a guy in a bar near here who said his brother in-law knew somebody who said he might vote for Obummer, too! You ought to do an article about him! I can show you where the bar is. You could offer to buy him a beer if he bad-mouths Gingrich!
    • James  •  Cicero, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Di. . . . Please get off the "gay people are born that way" kick. It has been scientificaly proven that the gay / lesbian lifestyle is CHOSEN. They are sexual perversions. I would use the word "SIN", but you probably have no concept of what I am talking about. Unfortunately, you have been given over to a reprobate mind. That means that you no longer know or care about the difference between right and wrong. But then, you will have the rest of eternity to think about that one.
      • OpenMinded 5 mths ago
        And of course you have links to scientific, peer-reviewed, and confirmed studies that being gay is a choice. Please post those links here.
      • James 5 mths ago
        Here you go OpenMinded. . . the gay / lesbian lifestyle is chosen by children raised by gay or lesbian couples at a rate 6 times the norm. Maybe those gay and lexbian couples are just lucky at picking gay and lesbian babies. . . . . lets hear your answer for that one.
      • OpenMinded 5 mths ago
        Typing random comments does not constitute scientific data. Again, please provide your source material (that's assuming it's an actual scientific study and not more made up "scare stats" that some folks like to drag out).
    • Darvenne  •  Washington, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Who cares!..You think every family agrees on everything..Blood is a turnip..not thick like water
    • wtfnow  •  5 mths ago
      So will the rest of the queers!
    • Ben  •  Kansas City, United States  •  5 mths ago
      IS THIS NEWSWORTHY?
    • someone  •  5 mths ago
      Who cares who she votes for. Just makes me want rid of Obama even more.
    • Mickey  •  5 mths ago
      Gingrich has a crazy half sister! That just makes him normal.
    • RR  •  5 mths ago
      I heard Obama's illegal alien drunken uncle, Onyango Obama, is voting for Obama to...along with cartoon characters, dead people, felons (even the ones still in prison), @$$ rammers, animal lovin pervs, leeches, bed wetters, pillow biters and imaginary citizens---pretty much the democrat base....
    • Vivian M  •  Milwaukee, United States  •  5 mths ago
      " As the World Turns" .I am not addressing the t.v. episodes, but reality of the world's people today.
      All these Counterfeit Christians such as Newt G and others should know that they cannot condemn a brethren about their sin and talk about the beam in their brethren eyes when they have not taken the PLANK out of their eyes !!
    • s w  •  Claremont, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Who needs a lying cheating man who divorces his wife while she is sick with cancer. Nice family values kinda man.
      • Arnold P 5 mths ago
        Yeah, maybe the Kennedys or Clinton could do a lecture series!
      • Donate Life 5 mths ago
        Why is cheating on a sick wife any worse than cheating on a healthy wife?
      • OpenMinded 5 mths ago
        SW - you mean like any other Republican or Talibangelical? LOL
    • BB  •  St. Petersburg, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Let me break it down, those are the people we want voting for Oblama. The Dems have Oblama as the ONLY candidate who could WIN in your party, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE....we Repubs have a few choices of candidates who CAN beat Oblama.
      • Arnold P 5 mths ago
        The democrats have put themselves in a position where they can't win with or without Obummer!
    • Kent D  •  Ellensburg, United States  •  5 mths ago
      oooooooooooooo, let's keep this one on for the next nine months. It could be an election decider!
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