Before Mayor Patrick Wojahn headed College Park, MD, he was a key figure in the movement for what activists described as “marriage equality” both through an activist group and through his own relationship.
As one of the nine plaintiff couples in the Deane vs. Conaway lawsuit filed in 2004, Kolesar and his partner, Patrick Wojahn, saw two years of legal entanglements finally pay off with the judge’s support of same-sex marriage.
Judge Brooke M. Murdock ruled a 1973 state law which prohibited same-sex marriage was discriminatory and caused by bias, bringing an end to the first stage of the lawsuit, which was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Equality Maryland and nine gay couples chosen to be the “face of the gay community,” Kolesar said.
Wojahn was not just a test case, he was an activist.
Until the new legislative term resumes, advocates are trying to drum up public support for same-sex marriage in the state. “We’re working on rebuilding support in those areas and looking at how we’re going to proceed,” says Patrick Wojahn, chair of the Equality Maryland Foundation. “We’re trying to get [legislators who defected] back on board or get other people on board.”
Wojahn even made it sound like he was mentored by Pete Buttigieg.
During his Council elections and his first run as a mayoral candidate, Wojahn knew he had no choice but to run as an openly gay man because of his media prominence with the marriage equality lawsuit.
But being elected as an out gay mayor landed him a fortuitous mentor.
“I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015,” Wojahn said. “I went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting in D.C. in January and he was assigned to be my buddy.”
The two continued to talk over the phone and Buttigieg explained the conference to him and what would take place at the meeting. Later, they would both attend a White House reception during the Obama administration where Dave and Chasten (Buttigieg) would meet as well.
Buttigieg continued to mentor Wojahn, advising him on how to get the most out of his participation in the conference.
“I now serve in a leadership role as vice chair of city livability and bicycling in part due to his mentorship.”
They also talked about the challenges of being an openly gay mayor with Buttigieg sharing with his mentee the story of his coming out while serving in office.
The Buttigieg campaign hailed Wojahn’s endorsement of him during the Democrat primaries.
None of this comes up in the latest story about Wojahn.
The mayor of College Park, Md., resigned from his position on Wednesday ahead of being arrested on child pornography charges Thursday.
In a news release, the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD) said that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified it that a social media account operating in the county possessed and distributed suspected child pornography.
PGPD investigators said that the social media account belonged to Mayor Patrick Wojhan.
Authorities conducted a search warrant at Wojhan’s residence last month, where they recovered multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet and a computer, police said.
Wojhan, 47, was arrested and taken into custody by authorities early Thursday morning, charged with 40 counts of possession of child exploitative material and 16 counts of distribution of child exploitative material.
“Many of you have already reached out with well wishes and thoughts, and I am eternally grateful. I am stepping away to deal with my own mental health,” he wrote. “I ask that you continue to keep me and my family in your prayers.”
If Mayor Patrick Wojhan had been a Republican, an evangelical Christian or an Orthodox Jew, if he’d been mentored by Mike Pence, the media would blow if up and have a field day with it. But since he is who he is, it’s just being treated as an obscure local crime story with no background, deep or otherwise.
It falls to the few remaining journalists to provide the actual background that the media chooses to omit.
Well, that shows with certainty he WAS mentored by Buttigieg.
A homosexual man who isn’t attracted to young and teenage boys is a rare thing.
Proof that Pete Buttplug is obsessed with ten year old @$$ holes!
The homosexual / sodomite crowd produces wildly disproportionate numbers of pedophiles. Making the connection is not a stretch.
I tried to create a link in my first reply to you and it failed. I will try again:
Leviticus 20:13 (KJV)
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
The Creator has not changed His mind!
Failure. So if anyone wants to read an excellent summary of a study of the relationship between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, you will have to find it by searching for “homosexuality and child sexual abuse” in your search engine and look for a U.K. website called “Lantern Project.”
here it is:
ha,
The full link has been removed!
Thank you for trying. I was very impressed with that article. Wonderful footnotes.
Molestation is the reproduction method of the men who have sex with men types.
Experts at getting elected, making promises that are never kept. Not so good at actually doing anything useful once they get elected.
The Left knows they must suppress stories like this or we will start asking some taboo questions. Perhaps once the school teachers and librarians have groomed all the children, those questions wont matter anymore.
It’s bad enough we have to keep children away from our president and his wandering hands. It’s our Cabinet member too..
How strange this story never made it on to CNN… Hmm, wonder why…
I bet they support drag queen story time with children.
I hate the media would have a field day. The conclusion is to direct anger randomly at nothing. Obviously they do nothing. You know how muslims think and that liberals think the same. They demand the right to supremacy. You are pointing out that the media has a double standard. Basically everyone knows that it has a double standard. This joke is politically correct because it makes good people think that they are helpless, an imagination attack. It’s essentially the written form of calling for national divorce, attacking from a point of weakness.
Say it, there is a double standard, like the millions of people like the geese skwaking it twice a year, but please say a point here or what to do instead of leaving people, who like water, will take the path of least resistance, and that is feeling helpless because you pointed out the enemy is big. Cells understand binary, live or die, that’s die. Sometimes you need a 0 with your 1s, but end on something real like “hold these people accountable for their hypocritical child-rape defense” and put the fire back in people instead of ending an article about demonrats raping kids with dark humor about how the left runs us. I’m sorry, I love your articles and I don’t know what I’d be if google’s algorithms had been censoring you before, but this leaves the worst taste in my mouth for an ending. It’s like the reverse of a cop interrogating a murderer, yeah you put words down but you are a leader that can inspire or crush. That ending wasn’t the right time to crush the right’s ego.
What double standard? What are you whining about? The story has been all over the media? It is not “obscure.” The Left is not covering it up.
You actually want media stories to somehow implicate Pete Buttigieg in a child pornography case that has nothing to do with him?
What you want is yet another opportunity to insinuate your disgusting homophobia, so that your readers will express said disgusting homophobia in the crudest ways possible..
70% of Americans (according to a 2021 Gallup poll) support gay marriage. The numbers keep climbing. But you insist on clinging to your hateful, atavistic position. Good. That just means the extreme right will continue to lose support.
Too bad Daniel wasn’t around to nip this in the bud when Allen Ginsberg founded “NAMBLA” nearly 70 years ago. The problem has grown to Sdom-sized proportions and we’re unlikely to ever excise the tumor.
Birds of a feather.
Let’s see how long it takes to convict the guy.
How many more in Butter Legs cabinet of Fiends are there?
As a young choirboy in Washington DC these guys seemed to be everywhere!