Bono’s Gay Daughter Says He Reneged

U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono was accused of breaking his word on Friday by one of his closest supporters - his own daughter.

“I feel really … disappointed and angry,” Chastity Bono, who is a lesbian, said Friday. “It obviously shows that he is not all that supportive of me or of our issues.”

Bono, R-Calif., half of the 1960s TV duo Sonny and Cher, signed on as one of several cosponsors on Friday of a bill that would define marriage under federal law as a legal union between one man and one woman.

Chastity Bono, 27, said her father had agreed to support same-sex marriages in an interview with her that was published in The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine.

Bono’s complaint comes three days after Candace Gingrich appealed to her half-brother, Speaker Newt Gingrich, to stop “an unprecedented political assault on the lives of lesbian and gay Americans.”