Guilty Senator Ted Stevens had history of mostly anti-gay votes
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, 84, who was convicted of receiving and not reporting $250,000 in gifts from a disgraced executive in the oil services industry, had voted against the interests of gay and lesbian people in his decades-long Congressional service. He received a 0% favorable rating from Human Rights Campaign, and according to On The Issues had a mostly anti-gay record:
- Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (2006)
- Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (2002)
- Voted YES on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (2000)
- Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (1996)
- Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (1996)
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