[Iran Press TV] A senior US senator has announced that he will marry a male partner some 40 years after the death of his wife.Former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, 90,
| ... 2016 - 40 = 1976 was the year she died... |
Wofford initially made the shocking announcement in a column for the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, titled "Finding Love Again, This Time With a Man."
The former Democratic senator, who has served as a friend and unofficial advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as a special assistant to President John F Kennedy, also bragged about his "love" towards his late wife, who died of acute leukemia back in 1996.
| ...2016 - 1996 = 20 years ago. It looks like the Iran PressTV reporter has a little problem with math facts. |
In the column, Wofford also provides details of how he realized his "bond" with Charlton "had grown into love" on a beach in Florida five years after the death of his wife.
On June 26, 2015, the United States became the 21st and most populous country to legalize same-sex marriage as a result of a Supreme Court ruling.