Candidate who signed petition to get anti-gay marriage referendum on the ballot says he doesn't support it

Paul Renneisen, who's challenging U.S. Rep. Ron Klein from the left in the Aug. 26 Democratic primary, said his signature on the petition that helped get an anti-gay marriage proposal on Florida's November ballot doesn't represent his views on the issue. Renneisen confirmed what a Web site devoted to listing the people who signed the petition showed: that he did, in fact, add his name to the petitions circulated by a conservative group loosely affiliated with James Dobson's Focus on the Family organization. Here's a group on the other side. "I did sign the petition to get it on the ballot so it can be voted down," Renneisen said. "I didn't sign a petition supporting the amendment at all. I signed a petition to put it on the ballot." "There are a lot of [gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender] individuals who feel we have an opportunity in this year of change [to] defeat this," he said, adding that he would vote against the proposal to add the state's law banning same-sex marriage to the Florida Constitution. Renneisen is challenging Klein largely on national security issues such as the Democratic Congress' failure to end the war in Iraq.   Posted by Anthony Man at Sun-Sentinel Broward Blog