Former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus (R), who signed the nation's first statewide gay rights law in 1982, has died. He was 81.
When Dreyfus signed the bill he said,
"It is a fundamental tenet of the Republican Party that government ought not intrude in the private lives of individuals where no state purpose is served, and there is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love."
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