Mayoral candidate who voted against gay rights now wants gay votes
Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, who hopes to be mayor of Miami, needs every vote he can get, including the gay vote. Should be interesting since all gay eyes were watching the televised hearings during which Diaz de la Portilla voted against inclusion of sexual orientation in Miami-Dade County's human rights ordinance. The amendment passed by one vote. Could be impossible to woo gay voters, despite recent sit-downs with influential queers, since Diaz de la Portilla says he'd vote the same way again. Nathaniel Wilcox of the local Christian Coalition says his group isn't worried about Diaz de la Portilla's meetings with gay-rights activists. "What he's trying to do will avoid a firestorm of protests because that's how the gays operate, get your back into a corner and then kill you," says Wilcox. Sun-Sentinel
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