GRAND RAPIDS, MI - When Vote Equal’s new president visited MLive’s hub last week, on the eve of a march through downtown Grand Rapids, he said ousting U.S. Rep. Justin Amash is one the group’s goals as it strives to build a “progressive” base of support for putting a same-sex marriage proposal on Michigan’s 2016 ballot.
Yet, Chris Silva also noted that Amash’s ideological peculiarities could complicate Vote Equal’s agenda.
“We’d like to get rid of Justin Amash,” Silva said. “But if he comes out and talks for marriage equality, it’d be really hard…it would change things a little bit.”
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So what exactly is Amash coming out and saying this week as the U.S. Supreme Court debates gay-marriage law? Amash on Monday during an American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan forum in Grand Rapids said he wants the federal government to stay out of marriage, and he supports repealing the definition of marriage in the Defense of Marriage Act and leaving the matter to states to decide.
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