U.S Elects First Lesbian Senator
Tammy Baldwin, The first openly gay Senator in U.S history
Tammy Baldwin has won the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin, making history as the first openly gay U.S. Senator.
Baldwin, the first out lesbian in Congress, became the first lesbian senator Tuesday night with a victory over long-time Wisconsin Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Baldwin served three terms in the Wisconsin Assembly before successfully running for Congress.
In her victory speech in Wisconsin, Baldwin acknowledged that she makes history as both Wisconsin’s first female senator and the country’s first openly gay senator.
“Now, I am well aware that I will have the honor of being Wisconsin’s first woman senator. I am well aware that I will be the first openly gay member,” Baldwin said to loud cheers from her supporters. “But I didn’t run to make history. I ran to make a difference.”
“A difference in the lives of families struggling to find work and pay the bills, a difference in the lives of students worried about debt and seniors worried about their retirement security, a difference in the lives veterans who fought for us and need someone fighting for them and their families when they return home from war, a difference in the lives of entrepreneurs trying to build a business and working people trying to build some economic security,” she said.
U.S. representative Tammy Baldwin (pictured, right) and her partner of nearly 15 years, Lauren Azar (left), ended their relationship in May 2010.
Azar, an attorney with extensive experience in utilities, is the Commissioner of the Public Service Commission in Wisconsin.
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Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.