What was like to be gay and Republin at a time of gay-bashg polics?
Contents:
- GEE H.W. BH: I HAVE 'MELLOWED' ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
- GEE H.W. BH OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE, UNTIL HE WAS A WNS TO ONE
- GEE W. BH ON GAY MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATN, AND WHY OBAMA KEPT HIS TERRORISM POLICI
GEE H.W. BH: I HAVE 'MELLOWED' ON GAY MARRIAGE
" The AP remds that: "Bh was the Whe Hoe when gay marriage wasn't as big a polil issue as is today. Bh's] wife, Lra Bh, and their dghter Barbara Bh support gay marriage, as do [Gee 's] former vice print, Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary Cheney is openly gay.
GEE W. BH'S FOTTEN GAY-RIGHTS HISTORY
They were honeymoong overseas and didn't immediately rpond to an email seekg ment marriage beme legal Mae was the Whe Hoe when gay marriage wasn't as big a polil issue as is today. But his wife, Lra Bh, and their dghter Barbara Bh support gay marriage, as do his former vice print, Dick Cheney, whose dghter Mary Cheney is openly gay.
GEE H.W. BH OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE, UNTIL HE WAS A WNS TO ONE
In a speech June, he told the Fah & Freedom Coaln the natn needs to be supportive of non-tradnal Associated PrsRelated:Same-sex marriage supporters cheer 'Cralla moment'GOP fds self a tighter spot on gay marriage after lgsGay troops prep for September marriage spree.
Bh utned agast cricizg gay upl, sayg an terview on "This Week" that you shouldn't cricize others "until you've examed your own heart. " Bh had wad to the revalized same-sex marriage bate last week -- if only barely -- a ment to a reporter Zambia, who asked whether gay marriage nflicts wh Christian valu.
"I meant 's very important for people not to be overly cril of someone else until you've examed your own heart, " Bh told story went on to note that "As print, Bh opposed gay marriage, and Republins phed ballot measur to ban at the state level.
GEE W. BH ON GAY MARRIAGE, IMMIGRATN, AND WHY OBAMA KEPT HIS TERRORISM POLICI
Meanwhile his vice print, Dick Cheney, opposed the nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage that was a popular ia among social nservativ at the time.
''As Republins seek to fd a new way forward the wake of the Supreme Court cisn strikg down DOMA, 's worth rellg that one equently discsed proposed path -- backg civil unns but not full marriage equaly -- would jt take the GOP back to where s succsful printial ndidate was , the more nservative ndidate who lost where Bh won, opposed both gay marriage and civil unns picture wh Bh was hardly one of straightforward support for gay unns, of urse.
At the same time, he benefed om an aggrsive state-by-state mpaign to turn out evangelil voters opposed to givg gay unns the same standg as heterosexual on. And tight rac, those voters -- who historilly have leaned heavily Republin -- may have tipped the now Bh, rponse to a journalist Zambia askg about whether gay marriage is agast Christian valu, said, "I shouldn't be takg a speck out of someone else's eye when I have a log my own. Bh opposed gay marriage, but then he beme the first print to be a wns at a same-sex weddg 2013.