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friend was barred from the emergency room as his
friend’s son lay dying after a swing-set accident. “You
can’t experience something like that without saying,
‘Where’s the fairness?’ ” said Mr. Huntsman, a
Mormon, whose religion strongly condemns
homosexuality. Mitt Romney, a fellow Mormon, does
not support civil unions or gay marriage. On Capitol
Hill, Representative Nan Hayworth, a Republican from
New York who swept into Congress on a wave of Tea
Party support, became one of only a handful of
Republicans to join the Congressional gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender caucus. Her son is gay. And
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a conservative
Republican who represents many gay constituents in a
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district that spans from Miami to the Florida Keys,
became the first in her party to co-sponsor of
legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
Justice Lewis Powell of the United States Supreme
Court was perhaps one of the most famous public
figures to come around on gay rights. He voted in 1986
to uphold a criminal sodomy law, telling his law clerk at
the time, “I don’t believe I’ve ever met a homosexual.”
The clerk, who was gay, replied, “Certainly you have,
but you just don’t know that they are.” Justice Powell
later said that he regretted his vote.
Helene Cooper reported from Washington, and Jeremy
W. Peters from New York.
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