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A year later, Reilly’s mother, Barbara McKeefry, moved in with her lover, Chris Megargee.
“The best dad I ever had is a lady,” Reilly said. “They have been together 25 years this year, and I don’t see why they should be treated any differently … I don’t make up it is the state’s job to decide what is in the best interest of my family or anybody else’s.”
Reilly, proprietor of Global Experiences in Annapolis, was among the array of who people testified before a delineate Senate committee on legislation that would make same-sex marriage legal in Maryland. “I mark the committee needs to hear real stories from people like me,” said Reilly, who was a Fulbright student and is married with three children of his own.
“If you strip away the religion and the sentiment, it is a no-brainer.”
But just a few minutes later, a gay man from Potomac asked the panel to defeat the bill, saying the proposal by Gov. Martin O’Malley would wreck one of society’s most basic principles, that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Source: Annapolis Capital