Score another for hypocrisy.
The New York Times revealed today that a prominent GOP political consultant has married his gay lover in Massachusetts.
Arthur Finkelstein, whose claim to fame includes promoting the careers of former Senator Alphonse "You Say" D'Amato, New York governor George Pataki, and anti-gay bigot Senator Jesse Helms, felt no remorse for taking advantage of a law his own clients rabidly oppose.
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Mr. Finkelstein, 59, who has made a practice of defeating Democrats by trying to demonize them as liberal, said in a brief interview that he had married his partner of 40 years to ensure that the couple had the same benefits available to married heterosexual couples.
"I believe that visitation rights, health care benefits and other human relationship contracts that are taken for granted by all married people should be available to partners," he said...
....some conservative friends said Mr. Finkelstein's marriage would roil conservatives and highlight divisions among them over the importance of social issues to their movement."In recent years, Arthur hasn't pretended to be a social conservative," said one longtime conservative associate, who cited Mr. Finkelstein's aversion to publicity in declining to be identified. "But this is the same man who was the architect of Jesse Helms's political rise."
In other news, thousands of straight marriages throughout Massachusetts collapsed overnight.