McClatchy News has the story Senate candidate seeks ruling on contributions by gay couples.   I guess I did not read the the opening paragraph carefully enough.

While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law.

Otherwise I would not have been so surprised at the following:

A pro-gay-marriage Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts has asked the Federal Election Commission to determine whether gay couples have the right to make joint contributions to political candidates.

In a request for an advisory opinion Friday, attorneys for State Rep. Dan Winslow, a moderate Republican running in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry, asked the commission whether gay couples can donate to his campaign with a single check, as heterosexual married couples are allowed to do.

I am proud to say that some Massachusetts Republicans do not fit the mold of many of the Republicans from other states.