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San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders--a Republican who during his campaign supported civil unions for gay couples but not marriage--announced this week that he would sign a city resolution supporting marriage equality. In his announcement, he called civil unions "a separate-but-equal institution," spoke of his daughter, friends and staff who are gay, and said he "couldn't look any of them in the face and tell them that their relationship, their very lives, were any meaningful than the marriage I share with my life Rana." Here's the video, if you'd like to watch him tear up.

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Sanders's defining characteristic has always been that of a reliable friend to property developers. He's an old skool Republican---"the kind Main Street business owners like". As such, opposition to same-sex marriage was never something he really believed in, but probably felt a lot of pressure to fake from insane activists. See also the recent Cheney appearance on The Daily Show. In the current climate, he probably felt he could finally shoot the bird to the 23% crowd with less than zero cost.

Or, let's get more cynical, if we hadn't left thousands of our daughters and sons to bleed into the Fertile Crescent, you never would have seen this.

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I don't know much about him. But I'm glad to see the climate changed so that people feel safe rejecting the insane activists.

Are you Jay?