One might think that with Jayes-Green’s appearance, O’Malley had covered the gay marriage issue. Actually, no. The next speaker, Johns Hopkins student Joseph Weinstein-Avery, stressed that he was just an everyday Baltimore guy — “I love my Orioles and my Ravens” — going to school and hoping to enter public service some day. “I’m a grandson, a son, a nephew and a friend,” Weinstein-Avery said. “I’m your next door neighbor’s kid — all thanks to the job that my two moms did raising me.”
Weinstein-Avery paused a moment to let the message sink in, and to wait for applause. “My mothers, Hallie and Shannon, raised me to be who I am today,” he continued. “But until a few years ago, in the eyes of the law, their love was recognized as something less than a heterosexual couple. Until Gov. O’Malley championed same-sex marriage in Maryland, they didn’t have the right to express their love as so many other couples do.”
“I’m here today because Martin O’Malley led the fight for marriage equality in Maryland, and he will do the same for every state and every couple in this great nation,” Weinstein-Avery concluded.
The message was unmistakable: While Hillary Clinton was still “evolving” on gay marriage, Martin O’Malley was making it the law in Maryland.
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