Newt Ggrich on Gay Marriage: Shamels and/or Fearls

newt gingrich on gay marriage

Cheney sisters' gay-marriage fight: A Ggrich has some advice

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NEWT GGRICH URG REPUBLINS TO RETHK OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE

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12/20/2012Washgton– In an terview wh the Huffgton Post, former Republin printial ndidate and Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich ma remarks ditg he and other GOP lears should embrace civil marriage equaly – the latt sign of powerful momentum for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) equaly this year. Newt Ggrich is jt the latt of those who once opposed marriage equaly to evolve to a posn of supportg the rights of gay and lbian upl to marry. ”The Human Rights Campaign is the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr polil anizatn wh members throughout the untry.

Another guy who has : Newt Ggrich, who is now enuragg Republins to rethk their posn on gay marriage. "The realy is gog to be that a number of Amerin stat – and will be more after 2014 – gay relatnships will be legal, perd, " Ggrich measur legalizg same-sex marriage passed last month Maryland, Washgton and Mae. It was the first time gay marriage had passed a statewi referendum, as opposed to beg stuted through a urt cisn.

Durg the recent printial mpaign he showed himself willg to totter plenty far out on the limb of anti-gay bigotry, at one pot llg same-sex marriage "pagan behavr" – and meang a bad unrlyg sense, however, is that Ggrich don't re eply about the issue, except for how plays on the htgs. And the realy is gog to be that a number of Amerin stat — and will be more after 2014 — gay relatnships will be legal, perd, ” Ggrich said, referencg the growg number of stat that have voted to legalize the practice.

CHENEY SISTERS’ GAY-MARRIAGE FIGHT: A GGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE

Former Hoe Speaker Newt Ggrich says he oppos gay marriage, but is fortable lettg voters ci the issue for their own state. Ggrich ma his ments Friday durg a vis to the Washgton pol. It’s the send time two weeks a Republin printial ndidate has mpaigned unr the dome. * newt gingrich on gay marriage *

“I didn’t thk that was evable 10 or 15 years ago, when we passed the Defense of Marriage Act, ” Ggrich said, referencg the anti-gay-marriage law he helped pass 1996.

NEWT GGRICH TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON STOP AT WASH. CAPOL

“I thk the print should be, ankly, enforcg [DOMA], and I thk we are driftg towards a terrible muddle which I thk is gog to be very, very difficult and paful to work our way out of, ” Ggrich told reporters after New York passed gay marriage legislatn June 2011.

GGRICH FENDS MPAIGN STRATEGY; CRICIZ GAY MARRIAGE

Startg the ‘90s, the Ggrich siblgs -- one a straight, nservative polician and the other a married, gay activist -- played out the same fay drama over gay marriage that is now roilg the Cheney clan. ”Earlier Monday, after Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, took to Facebook to exprs their anger and disappotment over Liz Cheney’s disavowal of gay marriage on a Sunday talk show, Dick and Lynne Cheney released a statement about the dghters’ fd.

The Cheneys emphasized their elst dghter’s lifelong opposn to gay marriage and said the “many kdns” shown to her sister should not be nsted as support for gay many, appeared they were takg sis their dghters’ dynamic felt faiar to Candace Ggrich, who 1995, jt after her brother ascend to the speakership of the Hoe of Reprentativ, plunged to gay activism, tradg on her famo fay name to bee a polil thorn the si of her powerful the Cheney parents, the Ggrich’ mother, K, was protective of her elst child’s polil reer.

NEWT GGRICH SIGNS NOM’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PLEDGE

8, the California anti-gay marriage iative, sce overturned, that passed on the very day Print Obama was first elected. Often, the change of heart has to do wh a fay member who is gay.

Rob Portman, on Mt Romney’s vice printial short list, announced March that his llege-age son, Will, is gay.

WHY DO NEWT GGRICH THK GAY PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE TOLERANT?

A longtime opponent of gay marriage, Portman has now embraced .

NEWT GGRICH ON GAY MARRIAGE: SHAMELS AND/OR FEARLS

The Portmans wanted to make their announcement about Will, and Rob’s about-face on gay marriage, on their own timetable. ) Even Newt Ggrich has softened his recently as January 2011, as he sought the Republin printial nomatn, Ggrich was rigid about gay marriage. And the realy is gog to be that a number of Amerin stat -- and will be more after 2014 -- gay relatnships will be legal, perd.

It's not unmon to hear members of the lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) muny argue that their rights -- for example their right to marry a member of the same sex -- are beg unrmed by nservativ. " Host David Gregory asked Ggrich if he thought a Republin nomee for print uld support gay marriage.

""Do [supportg LGBT rights] mean that you actually have to affirmatively elimate any stutn which do not tomatilly accept [homosexualy]?

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Newt Ggrich Signs NOM’s Anti-Gay Marriage Pledge - Human Rights Campaign .

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