Yes Mike Conaway, You Are Anti-Gay
A constituent of Texas' 11th district asked Congressman Mike Conaway an interesting question at a recent town hall meeting in Brownwood: "Are you anti-gay?" “I am not anti-gay,” the congressman asserted, before offering tepid support for civil unions on a state-by-state basis. A decade ago, that would've been a signal of progress. One of those subtle signs that a politician might be warming up to equality. Unfortunately for gay people in Conaway's district, it's 2017. Marriage equality has been the law for two years. Separate is certainly not equal. Campaigning on a policy to reduce LGBT marriages to civil unions is literally campaigning to "put all the gays back in their place!" Why even bother changing anything, if that's not the goal? I wanted to know what Conaway meant, or at least how he had arrived to his (perhaps self-assessed?) conclusion, that he isn't anti-gay. Friday, I set out from Midland to his latest congressional town hall m...