A Tale of Two Sisters

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Tea party/Christian right Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has long decried homosexuality; her sister Jennie supports gay rights and says she lives with a girlfriend.

— By David Corn and Suzy Khimm

Thu Sep. 16, 2010 11:43 AM PDT

Imagine the family dinners: two sisters, one running for Senate as an anti-gay Christian conservative, the other an L.A.-based actor/director/spiritual healer who describes herself as living with a girlfriend.

Two days after tea partier Christine O'Donnell won the GOP Senate primary election in Delaware, The Daily Beast published a story that lit up the Internets: Wade Richards, a former employee of O'Donnell's Christian right organization, The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, was saying that O'Donnell's sister was openly a lesbian and in a long-term same-sex relationship in Los Angeles. (Richards noted that he hooked up with the SALT as a supposedly ex-gay man but eventually came out of the ex-gay closet—and says O'Donnell "totally turned her back on me.")

As a Christian right activist, O'Donnell has decried homosexuality, condemning the sexual orientation as a "perversion." SALT not only campaigned against masturbation; it crusaded against homosexuality and other "un-Christian" sexual behaviors. O'Donnell, according to The Daily Beast, would go on speaking tours to discuss "sexual purity and curing homosexuality. Along with other Christian groups, SALT protested when President Bill Clinton appointing a gay man to an ambassadorship, citing the nominee's alleged "ties to the pedophile-rights movement." O'Donnell also blasted the federal government for giving too much money to AIDS patients. And earlier in her career, she worked as a press secretary for the Concerned Women for America, which has long railed against "the homosexual agenda." Yet according to Richards, she had an openly lesbian sister.

The Daily Beast story does not identify O'Donnell's sister by name. But she has a sister named Jennie who lives in Los Angeles. And Jennie's Facebook and LinkedIn pages depict a person who appears to be quite different than Christine—in essence, the polar opposite. Yet the two have recently appeared on the campaign trail together, with Jennie obviously supporting her sister's Senate bid.

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Christine O'Donnell has been a poster girl for Christian fundamentalism and social conservatism; Jennie O'Donnell has been something of a hippie-artist. One rails against homosexuality; the other fancies gay marriage. One decries masturbation and any sexual practices outside of marriage; the other supports lesbian rights. Still, Jennie has loyally been helping her anti-gay sister Christine become one of nation's top lawmakers. To some that might seem curious. But her Facebook page has what might be the explanation. Under "bio," Jennie O'Donnell writes, "love my family very much. i am nuts about them. totally in love with them... i am glad we chose each other, and i thank god for that.......oh enough about me... tell me about you?"

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/christine-odonnell-lesbian-gay-sister-jennie

[Sapphocrat]

1. As long as Jennie lies like a dog...

...by saying her sister is not homophobic, and continues to support that twisted shitforbrains' campaign, she can go fuck herself. Sideways.

Hey, Jennie! Go get into one of those "ex-gay" programs and convince yourself you're not a lesbian -- we don't need you on our team.

What a stupid, delusional sack of crap.

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2. That crazy

That maniac who bombed some clinics...Rudolph? Was that his name..His brother was gay and lived with his lover....and that guy was close to both of them.

0_o strange world.