GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF HERBERT HOOVER JOINS THE FIGHT FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Margaret Hoover, conservative Republican and great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, has voiced her opinion in support of marriage equality in a piece for FOX News. We Republicans have often found ourselves on the wrong side of civil rights struggles since the 1960s, but there was a reason that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father is said to have supported Republicans. Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was a Republican. By supporting the AFER trial we have an opportunity to establish our historic credibility on civil rights issues once again. But we should support marriage equality because it is the right thing to do." Wow. Shocking how a conservative Republican can speak out in support of marriage equality, and the President I voted for has kept relatively silent on the matter since I helped elect him. Shame on him and good for Margaret Hoover. [image and source]