Posted on 11/18/2015 5:49:47 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah lawmaker Jackie Biskupski on Tuesday became the first openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City, the capital of the conservative state where the Mormon church and a small town judge delivered setbacks last week to the LGBT community.
The victory by Biskupski marked another milestone for LGBT people in Utah who have made major strides in recent years.
"Today is not just about making history," Biskupski said. "It is about people. It is about affecting change."
Her supporters cheered when the results were read at an elections canvass meeting.
Two-term incumbent Ralph Becker showed no reaction and later congratulated Biskupski and vowed to work with her to ensure a smooth transition.
Official election results showed Biskupski won 52 percent of the votes to defeat Becker.
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He and his husband, Moudi Sbeity, were one of three couples who sued to overturn the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Biskupski takes over after progress on gay rights was temporarily marred in recent weeks when a judge ordered a foster child to be removed from a lesbian couple and placed with a heterosexual couple. The judge cited the child's well-being as the reason for his order.
The ruling set off a firestorm around the state and nation. The judge quickly reversed his decision and took himself off the case."
America deserves what we get.
Good luck. Houston’s pervert mayor tore the city apart.
She’s gay...not lesbian?
**She’s gay...not lesbian?**
Let me understand, you got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So, who’s having sex with the hen?
This tells you how our society is descending down into Old Testament heathenism - and we all now the final destination of cultures that rot from within. It ain’t a good thing folks.
Correction - This tells you how our society is descending down into Old Testament heathenism - and we all Know the final destination of cultures that rot from within. It ain’t a good thing folks.
And does this pro-abortion, lesbian “Catholic” receive Communion?
SLC is much more liberal than the rest of Utah, just as SF &LA are much more liberal than the rest of California, and Seattle is much more liberal than the rest of Washington state.
Cities breed liberalism, which is why I believe cities are destructive to the freedom and self-reliance that forms conservatism. In cities, people get used to giving up their liberties in the name of cooperation, and they get used to any perverse behavior because they see it so often. Cities are naturally hellholes of socialism and perverse behavior.
For years we heard that sexuality has nothing to do with governance. Now the left thinks it is the only thing that matters.
Well, things will change when muslims take over.
That, and race.
A transgender man who likes effeminate gay men? Het?
The Gamecock?
I thought Mormons were moral people
On second thought,please don't!
Why is this a milestone? why does anyone care?
Hensbians?
Because the Lesbian Mayor of Houston worked out SOOOO well!
I'd be fine with those stupid Mormons getting the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment. Pillar of Salt Lake.
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