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‘It’s A Moment Of Peace’

by David Kurtz
05.04.12 | 5:02 am

The newly out of the closet Missouri Republican legislator, who came out to oppose the state’s “don’t say gay” bill and may be the only openly gay Republican state legislator in the country, talks to TPM about his big week.

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