• About Us
  • Activity
  • Advertising
  • Books
  • Business
  • Contact
  • Dashboard
  • EB5
  • Entertainment
  • feedback
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Government
  • Home
  • Home 20723
  • Interviews
  • Login
  • Members
  • Meme generator
  • National
  • Nevada
  • Nevada News and Views
  • Newsmax
  • NN&V Ads
  • Opinion
  • Pick a New Password
  • Politics
  • Polls
  • Privacy Policy
  • Profile
  • Recent comments by me
  • Recent comments on my posts
  • Register
  • Submit post
  • Subscribe
  • Subscription Confirmation
  • Survey
  • Survey
  • Terms of Service
  • Today’s Top 10
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Welcome!
  • Yop Poll Archive
Nevada News and Views
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • More
    • Opinion
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Pinterest

  • RSS

Opinion

Round and round and round he goes, where does Sandoval stand? Nobody knows.

Round and round and round he goes, where does Sandoval stand? Nobody knows.
Chuck Muth
April 20, 2010

(Laura Martin) – In September 2009 Republican candidate for governor, Brian Sandoval, told the Las Vegas Sun he would’ve signed his name to Nevada Senate Bill 283; the landmark bill offering gay and straight couples limited guaranteed benefits associated with marriage.

However, as Elizabeth Crum of the Nevada News Bureau pointed out, in 2002 he signed the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage’s “Marriage Protection Pledge”.

As reported by Crum:

“The Marriage Protection Pledge signed by Sandoval in 2002 states that “awarding spousal equivalent rights to non-married couples defeats the civil purpose of marriage” and that “various “domestic partnership,” “civil union,” or “reciprocal beneficiary relationship” benefits belong exclusively to marriage”.

The pledge closes with a promise to “oppose any endorsement of marriage imitations, including “domestic partnerships,” “civil unions,” reciprocal beneficiary relationships,” or any similar arrangement.”

Now Sandoval claims he forgot he signed the pledge. But he remembers enough to know that his position hasn’t changed. He believes marriage should be between a man and woman, and in 2002 he assumed Domestic Partnerships were just marriage-lite. Sandoval claims the benefits described in the pledge he signed in 2002 are not the same as the benefits in SB283; even though, they are.

Brian Sandoval signed a pledge (though he now claims he doesn’t sign pledges) against Domestic Partnerships, without knowing what they are and what having those rights meant. He went back on his word less than eight years later. Then when asked about the pledge, he claims he forgot he signed it.

It might be fair to assume that Sandoval has the pro and con of every issue Nevadans face on a roulette wheel, and each morning he takes it for a spin. When the wheel stops, Brian will know where he stands on the issues for that day.

It’s one thing to gamble in a casino, but do you really want Brian Sandoval in Carson City, playing games with your rights?

(Ms. Martin is Communications Director for the Stonewall Democrats of Southern Nevada)

Prev postNext post

Related Items
Opinion
April 20, 2010
Chuck Muth

Related Items

More in Opinion

Amodei Statement on Debt Ceiling Bill

Chuck MuthJune 1, 2023
Read More

Tark: Trans “Rights” … and Wrongs

Chuck MuthMay 26, 2023
Read More

Stone: The Truth About AB 250: Will Patients Really Benefit?

NN&V StaffMay 26, 2023
Read More

“Ungrateful Miscreants”: Miller, Segerblom Insult Local Small Business Owners

NN&V StaffMay 24, 2023
Read More

Quarter-Million Dollar Ad Campaign Targets Nevada Legislators for Trapping Hispanic Families in Unsafe Schools

NN&V StaffMay 22, 2023
Read More

Nevada News & Views: May 20, 2023

NN&V StaffMay 20, 2023
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Subscribe Free By Email

Looking for the best in breaking news and conservative views? Let Chuck do all the work for you! Subscribe to his FREE "Muth's Truths" e-newsletter.

* indicates required
Nevada News and Views
Nevada News & Views is an educational project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, a non-partisan IRS-approved 501(c)(3) organization. It is not associated or affiliated with any political party or group. Nevada News & Views is accessible by the public at no cost. It funds its operations through tax-deductible contributions from donors and supporters and does not accept government money or grants.

TAGS

Featured Article Muths truth

Copyright © 2023 Citizen Outreach | Maintained by VirtualAlly

Lowden Says Reid Ready to Turn Vaporizer on Her
End the Health Insurance Mandate