Outspoken first lady fights for those 'on the outside'
Catherine Curran O'Malley grew up with a swirl of history at her doorstep. Daughter of a powerful Maryland senator, her dad's positions led white supremacists to picket her home. The neighborhood priest once denounced him from the pulpit.
Young Katie didn't always understand why her family — especially her father, J. Joseph Curran Jr. — was the target of vitriol.
"I knew there was this hatred out there," O'Malley, 49, said. "I knew whatever he was doing was the right thing."
Now in her sixth year as Maryland's first lady, Katie O'Malley credits her upbringing — watching her father grapple with some of the most difficult issues in the 1960s and 1970s — for her dedication to another cause stirring outrage from many, including the family's Catholic church: legalizing same-sex marriage.
"It is an equal-rights issue," O'Malley said, in her first extended interview on the topic. "These individuals in our community have the same rights that we all should have. It is nobody's business what their sexual orientation is."
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