Former South Carolina State Senator John Hawkins, who led the charge
in South Carolina to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage,
announced on Wednesday at a speech before the Alliance for Full
Acceptance that he now regrets what he did and supports full marriage
equality.
Said Hawkins to WCSC:
"I was wrong about pursing the marriage amendment. I wish I hadn't been
so strident against it....I'm really hoping that people are going to
walk away from this with a little bit of healing...It would be great if
everyone who stood against us in the Senate said, 'We were wrong; In
fact, you really do deserve equal rights.'"
Hawkins served in the state Senate for eight years, from 2001 to 2009 and now works as an attorney.
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