[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/baldwin-marriage-equality-in-2012-democratic-party-plank\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/baldwin-marriage-equality-in-2012-democratic-party-plank\/","headline":"Baldwin: Marriage Equality in 2012 Democratic Party Plank","name":"Baldwin: Marriage Equality in 2012 Democratic Party Plank","description":"By Jason Carson Wilson Another Democratic political heavyweight wants marriage equality added to the party\u2019s platform. U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin called for the addition...","datePublished":"2012-04-16","dateModified":"2021-07-08","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/#Person","name":"Equally Wed","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/","identifier":787,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lesbian-wisconsin-representative-tammy-baldwin-marriage-equality.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lesbian-wisconsin-representative-tammy-baldwin-marriage-equality.jpg","height":233,"width":350},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/baldwin-marriage-equality-in-2012-democratic-party-plank\/","about":["Marriage Equality News"],"wordCount":332,"articleBody":" By Jason Carson WilsonAnother Democratic political heavyweight wants marriage equality added to the party\u2019s platform. U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin called for the addition during an exclusive Washington Blade interview Sunday.U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.\u201dI think that would be tremendous, and we have to be focusing on advancing equality in so many different realms,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cIt\u2019s a statement of values, and I think it\u2019s very important to be included.\u201dThe platform committee plans to debate platform language, while gathering at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.Baldwin offered her insights just before speaking at the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund annual brunch. She\u2019s seeking to ultimately retiring Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.).Winning Kohl\u2019s seat would make Baldwin the U.S. Senate first openly gay chamber member. Baldwin has represented Wisconsin\u2019s Second Congressional District since 1998 or for a total of seven terms. She\u2019s the first non-incumbent openly gay member of Congress.Baldwin joins more than 20 U.S. senators as well as an illustrious group of others, including Democratic National Convention chair Antonio Villaraigosa and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as well as former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., has championed the language\u2019s inclusion. Freedom To Marry President Evan Wolfson cheered Baldwin\u2019s decision to support the plank addition.\u201cRep. Baldwin, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, joins numerous party leaders and tens of thousands of Democrats who have signed our online petition in speaking up for the Democratic values of freedom, family and inclusion that are the core of the case for the freedom to marry,\u201d Wolfson said.Baldwin\u2019s comments didn\u2019t just center on marriage equality, but other areas of fairness. She sounded off on the Obama administration\u2019s refusal to sign an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating against GLBT employees.\u201cWe\u2019ve got to keep on organizing,\u201d she said.\u00a0Photo: tammybaldwin.com"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Baldwin: Marriage Equality in 2012 Democratic Party Plank","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/baldwin-marriage-equality-in-2012-democratic-party-plank\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]