Carl & Equality

As the father a gay child, I've had to dry my share of tears off of a child for being bullied for who she was.

There is one thing I want to make clear. There is no way on earth that I would ever support someone if I had any reservations at all about where they stand on equality.

I'm a veteran and I know what that culture can be like. I've shared with you all in the past that when you're in that culture, its very easy to be dragged in to the high-testosterone rhetoric where gay slurs come flying out of your mouth.

When my daughter came out to me, I was ashamed about how comfortable I realized I had been about using gay slurs like homo, fag, faggot, and other really bad stuff.

Its terrible that it took my daughter coming out for me to realize how much of a bigot I was.

But it changed me.

You all know how I feel about equality.

A friend of mine questioned where Carl stood on LGBT issues and frankly I had never even spoken to him about. So today I did.

I grilled him.

I asked him about his personal views and about his votes. He's not always the most artful communicator, and was in the military much longer than I was, but I can state with full confidence that Carl Robinson believes in equality.

There is no circumstance where I would support a candidate - especially a Democrat - if I even had the slightest doubt about their stand on equality.

Carl Robison undoubtedly supports equality.

Full stop.

To underscore that point, his campaign took the unprecedented step of using the rainbow flag as a backdrop on his logo.

Thats never been done before.

Bravo Carl.