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By: RYAN LEE
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Sadie Fields, state chair of the Christian Coalition of Georgia, shepherded a
constitutional ban on gay marriage through the General Assembly earlier this year
— despite having a lesbian daughter.
Fields is estranged from her daughter, Tess Fields, 35, who now lives in Portland,
Ore., with her partner and child, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s
Political Insider column on Sept. 20.
“I want to confirm my existence,” Tess Fields told the newspaper,
noting that she did not want to engage in a public battle with her mother.
Contacted by Southern Voice, Tess Fields had only one statement.
“I hope that Georgians don’t let hate and bigotry divide their
state the same way they have divided my family,” she said.
Sadie Fields did not respond to interview requests by press time, but told
the AJC the proposed amendment “is about doing what’s right, regardless
of the pain.”
“I love my daughter, but I don’t agree with her choices,”
she said.
Gay rights activists have been whispering about Tess Fields and working to
convince her to come out in Georgia for months. Gay lobbyist Larry Pellegrini
said he was glad news of Sadie Fields’ lesbian daughter was finally made
public, but he wished that she had gone further than simply confirming her existence
by challenging her mother’s public image as a champion of family values.
“I guess because she hasn’t seen the horror and the torture her
mother has spread, she didn’t have the impetus she might have if she lived
here and saw what her mother was doing, spreading misinformation and hate,”
Pellegrini said.
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