Senate Approves Several Out Gay Nominees, With No Opposition

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Senate Approves Several Out Gay Nominees, With No Opposition

Four ambassadors and a senior Justice Department official were among several nominations approved by the Senate on a voice vote Thursday night.

August 1, 2013

WASHINGTON — Being an out gay nominee for appointed office isn’t the controversy it used to be.

The Senate confirmed John Berry to serve as the ambassador to Australia — the first out gay ambassador to a G-20 country — on a voice vote Thursday, along with three other out gay ambassadorial nominees: Rufus Gifford as ambassador to Denmark, James Costos as ambassador to Spain and Daniel Baer to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Also confirmed on a voice vote was Stuart Delery, a senior Justice Department official who is gay and argued for the Obama administration in court that the Defense of Marriage Act should be struck down as unconstitutional, to serve as assistant attorney general for the Civil Division.

In contrast, the first out gay ambassadorial nominee, James Hormel, faced a far different task. Nominated by President Clinton to serve as ambassador to Luxembourg, several senators refused to let the nomination go forward and Clinton eventually named Hormel to the post as a recess appointment.

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Full article here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/senate-approves-several-out-gay-nominees-with-no-opposition

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1. none of them will be welcome in russia, however nt

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2. another gay ambassador nominee for the Dominican Republic was called a faggot

by the archbishop of Santo Domingo.