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Contents:

• THE REACTN JOHN KASICH GOT FOR ACCEPTG GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS HOW FAR THE GOP HAS COME
• WHAT JOHN KASICH WOULD TELL HIS DGHTERS IF THEY CAME OUT AS GAY
• JOHN KASICH WON APPLSE FOR HIS GAY MARRIAGE BATE ANSWER. THAT’S GREAT NEWS FOR ROB PORTMAN.
• KASICH: PEOPLE ARE ‘PROBABLY’ BORN GAY
• KASICH: HOMOSEXUALS ARE 'PROBABLY' BORN GAY, SHOULDN'T BE DISCRIMATED AGAST
• JOHN KASICH’S GAY MARRIAGE MANVER WAS A GIFT TO THE GOP
• JOHN KASICH'S GAY MARRIAGE RPONSE MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
• A FLTERED JOHN KASICH ADMS PEOPLE ARE “PROBABLY” BORN GAYEVEN WH THE NOMATN ALL BUT SEWN UP FOR TMP, KASICH N’T/WON’T STOP BEG KASICH.BY CHARL BRAMMAY 1, 2016ROCKVILLE, MD - APRIL 25: REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NDIDATE AND OH GOVERNOR JOHN KASICH SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT APRIL 25, 2016 ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND. GOVERNOR KASICH NTUED TO SEEK FOR HIS PARTY??S NOMATN FOR THE GENERAL ELECTN. (PHOTO BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAG)GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHOUGH THE OFFICIAL PARTY NOME FOR THE UPG PRINTIAL ELECTN WON’T BE NAMED UNTIL THE RPECTIVE NVENTNS THIS SUMMER, APPEARS THAT FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLTON AND PRUMABLE HUMAN MAN DONALD TMP HAVE THE GAME SEWN UP TIGHT. BUT EVEN WH THEIR NOMATNS ALL BUT EVABLE, THAT HASN’T STOPPED THE OTHER NOME OM KEEPG ON. TED CZ EARNED A SWEETLY NSCENDG “ALRIGHT, LI’L GUY” OM THE PEOPLE OF AMERI WHEN HE CLARED EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT CARLY FRA WOULD BE HIS NNG MATE THE EVENT THAT HE WS THE REPUBLIN NOMATN, AND JOHN KASICH HASN‘T ALLOWED HIS NEARLY EVABLE FAILURE TO STALL HIM ONE ME EHER.KASICH HAS GARNERED A SLIGHT BUMP POPULARY OVER THE PAST UPLE WEEKS BY PRENTG HIMSELF AS A SLIGHTLY OLER-HEAD, MORATE ALTERNATIVE TO THE SENTIENT ORANGE CYCLONE AND FORMER MUNSTERS ST MEMBER AGAST WHICH HE’S MPAIGNG. NBC NEWS HAS THE FULL REPORT OM A KASICH APPEARANCE ON FRIDAY THE QUEER-RIGHTS HUB OF SAN FRANCIS, WHERE THE NDIDATE WAS APPROPRIATELY QUTNED ABOUT HIS STANCE ON LGBTQ ISSU. KELLY BRYAN ATTEND THE EVENT AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA, AND POSED A SIMPLE, DIRECT QUTN TO THE NDIDATE:“DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY?” HE ASKED. “I’M A 62-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN WHO ME OUT TO BOTH OF MY PARENTS AT 19. AND I'VE BEEN GAY FOR 45, OVER 40 YEARS. GAY PEOPLE ARE HUMAN BEGS AND NOT A LIFTYLE CHOICE. PLEASE RPOND WHOUT PRAYER BEG AN ANSWER.”AS THE NATURE AND PHRASG OF HIS QUTN MAY SUGGT, BRYAN WOULD LATER INTIFY HIMSELF AS A DEMOCRAT WH PLANS TO ST HIS VOTE FOR HILLARY CLTON, AND THE QUTN PERFORMED S SIGNED FUNCTN BY SETTG OFF NEARLY SEVEN MUT OF “HEATED BACK-AND-FORTH” BETWEEN KASICH AND HIS CHALLENGER. THOUGH THE MORATOR MA SEVERAL MOTNS TO KEEP THE BATE MOVG, KASICH SISTED UPON STICKG TO THIS POT, BEGNG BY DIRECTLY FYG BRYAN’S REQUT AND STATG, “WE’D ALL BE BETTER OFF THIS UNTRY IF WE PRAYED MORE.” KASICH THEN H THE NEXT UAL NSERVATIVE TALKG POT BAT OVER WHETHER OR NOT NON-HETEROSEXUAL AMERINS SERVE TO BE TREATED WH BASIC HUMAN CENCY, WEAVG THE SANCTY OF DIVIDUAL RELIG EEDOMS: “IN TERMS OF ME,” HE SAID, “I DON'T BELIEVE DISCRIMATN. I THK THERE IS A BALANCE, HOWEVER, BETWEEN DISCRIMATN AND PEOPLE'S RELIG LIBERTI."AFTER LLG FOR THAT PERFECT BALANCE AND REMENDG THAT AMERINS ALL “TAKE A CHILL PILL” AND “RELAX” — A DIFFICULT THG TO DO WHEN PEOPLE YOU’VE NEVER MET KEEP CHIPPG AWAY AT YOUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS — KASICH FALLY GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. AFTER BRYAN REPEATEDLY REQUTED AN ANSWER TO HIS ORIGAL QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY, A FLTERED KASICH GAVE : “YOU KNOW, SIR, PROBABLY. I MEAN, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW ALL WORKS, OKAY? I MEAN, LOOK. ARE THEY? YOU KNOW, PROBABLY THEY ARE. OKAY?”THERE YOU HAVE , MY FELLOW AMERINS. LET THE HISTORY BOOKS SHOW THAT JOHN KASICH DO NOT KNOW HOW BEG GAY WORKS.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARL BRAM
• THE GOP BATE'S HOMETOWN NDIDATE JT GAVE A TOUCHG ANSWER ON GAY MARRIAGE
• KASICH: GAY PEOPLE 'PROBABLY' BORN THAT WAY
• JOHN KASICH SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'PROBABLY' BORN GAY
• TAL FROM THE TRAIL: KASICH CHALLENGED BY COLLEGE STUNT ON GAY MARRIAGE
• KASICH’S SPIRUAL ADVISER THKS GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE FASCIST “THOUGHT NAZIS”
• KASICH TAK CENTRIST TONE ON RELIG EEDOM, GAY MARRIAGE
• JOHN KASICH: PEOPLE "PROBABLY" BORN GAY

THE REACTN JOHN KASICH GOT FOR ACCEPTG GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS HOW FAR THE GOP HAS COME

John Kasich drew applse durg Thursday’s Republin printial bate for sayg that he accepted gay marriage even though was unter to his “tradnal” views. “Our urt has led and I said we’ll accept , ” Kasich said rponse to a qutn om morator Megyn Kelly about what he would do if his child were homosexual. Kasich has said that as a man of fah, he don’t approve of the “gay liftyle, ” and supported a ban on same-sex marriage Oh.

Stephen Hill, a gay bat veteran, for speakg favorably about the repeal of the ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

“In 2010 when I was ployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was bee I was a gay soldier, and I didn’t want to lose my job, ” Hill said via vionference durg the bate.

WHAT JOHN KASICH WOULD TELL HIS DGHTERS IF THEY CAME OUT AS GAY

“My qutn is, unr one of your princi, do you tend to circumvent the progrs that’s been ma for gay and lbian soldiers the ary? Rick Santom rpond to Hill by vowg to restate the ban on beg openly gay the ary. Kasich cricized a law Mississippi allowg service nial to gay people.

JOHN KASICH WON APPLSE FOR HIS GAY MARRIAGE BATE ANSWER. THAT’S GREAT NEWS FOR ROB PORTMAN.

— -- After dodgg a qutn earlier the day on “nversn therapy, ” Republin printial ndidate John Kasich asked Monday night “what the hell” was happeng the Uned Stat that a state would allow bs to ny service to people who are gay or transgenr, as a law Mississippi’s ernor signed last week perms. "I read about this thg they did Mississippi, where apparently you n ny somebody service bee they're gay? ”But much of Oh, the state where he serv as ernor, bs are legally permted to refe service to gay or transgenr people.

Instead, Kasich explaed his posn on gay marriage -- he do not agree wh but thks is time to move on now that the Supreme Court has guaranteed as a right -- and anti-discrimatn laws for LGBT told CBS News this weekend that he would not have signed North Carola’s so-lled "bathroom law, " which bars lol municipali om prohibg discrimatn based on genr inty or sexual orientatn and directs public facili to signate bathrooms for e by people based on their "blogil sex. " Crics say the law, which the state's ernor signed last month, discrimat agast gay and transgenr rints, while supporters argue fends relig liberty. ” He recently attend the weddg of a gay iend along wh Richard Hodg, the director of the Oh Department of Health, acrdg to the Oh ACLU.

But a uple of years ago Kasich was fightg agast the abily for LGBT upl to get married Oh, supportg the state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage. (Y, that is the same Hodg who attend the gay weddg recently wh Kasich. “You n still be nied a mortgage or service a rtrant for beg gay, ” wrote Oh State Senator Schiavoni.

KASICH: PEOPLE ARE ‘PROBABLY’ BORN GAY

Many LGBT rights groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign, have argued that recent relig eedom laws other stat uld be ed as pretens for discrimatn agast LGBT dividuals, allowg shop owners and medil provirs to refe service to gay upl.

He also exprsed disapproval when Texas overturned s anti-sodomy laws 2003, acrdg to Human Rights, who said that he was “very disappoted” after the Supreme Court’s lg on gay marriage June, announced his printial n approximately two weeks before the first official GOP bate Augt. — -- Republin printial ntenr John Kasich, who has received several qutns this week about his posns on issu relevant to the LGBT muny, was asked a personal qutn today on the matter -- what he would say if his dghters me out as gay. ”Kasich is opposed to gay marriage but attend one 2015, a fact that he has sometim mentned durg the Monday, he dodged a qutn at a town hall-style meetg Troy, NY, about his posn on "nversn therapy, " but later that day was qutned about a law recently passed Mississippi that allows bs to ny service to people who are gay or transgenr.

In 1996, Kasich voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which, the Akron Bean Journal wrote, “fe[d] marriage as a heterosexual unn only and lim[ed] marriage rights for gays and lbians. ” On Face the Natn 1998, Kasich said that “as a man of fah, I ll tell you there’s behavr I don’t approve of, and I don’t approve of the–of the gay liftyle, but what I’ll tell you is I don’t really foc on the s; I foc on the good that people n brg to our society, and I urge my iends and they urge me to do better every sgle day. I Don’t Believe That There Ought To Be Gay Marriag” But It Wasn’t His Job To “Conmn Them.

KASICH: HOMOSEXUALS ARE 'PROBABLY' BORN GAY, SHOULDN'T BE DISCRIMATED AGAST

In other words, I don’t believe that there ought to be gay marriag, but I’m not gonna n around tryg to–to put the fger on people and try to nmn them… That’s–that’s really not my job. ’ And he wasn't sure about Oh law that allows gay upl to adopt children: ‘I'm really sort of uncerta about .... Acrdg to the Ccnati Enquirer, after Senator Rob Portman announced his change of heart on same-sex marriage after his son me out as gay, “Rob Nichols, a spokman for Oh Gov.

The Baltimore Sun reported: “When John Arthur and Jim Obergefell chartered a private medil jet to Maryland last month to get married -- the only safe means of transport for Arthur, who is termally ill wh Lou Gehrig's disease -- the gay uple fulfilled a last wish and set out to leave a lastg legacy.

JOHN KASICH’S GAY MARRIAGE MANVER WAS A GIFT TO THE GOP

’ ‘I’ve got iends that are gay and I’ve told them ‘Look, (same sex marriage) is jt not somethg I agree wh’ and I’m not dog out of a sense of anger or judgment, ’s jt my opn on this issue. He oppos gay marriage and oppos changg Oh’s Constutn to allow for civil unns, ’ said Nichols. Acrdg to CNN: “When asked if he would attend a same-sex weddg — Kasich is opposed to gay and lbian nuptials — he said his iend jt ved him to one and he and his wife are planng to go.

JOHN KASICH'S GAY MARRIAGE RPONSE MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOMENT OF THE NIGHT

” The Wall Street Journal reported that at a lunch held by the Christian Science Monor, Kasich said, “I have a number of iends who are gay, OK? ’… Kasich on Friday cled to shed light on why he felt fortable attendg a gay weddg but opposed the stutn of gay marriage broadly. While gut hostg the O’Reilly Factor 2002 and discsg the ban on openly gay volunteers om mentorg children Big Brothers and Big Sisters programs, Kasich said that “there’s one thg I don’t unrstand.

Currently, there is no feral law agast LGBT workplace discrimatn, and is perfectly legal to fire someone for beg gay 29 stat and for beg transgenr 34 stat… workplace harassment and discrimatn do still go on Oh, as well as many other plac across the untry.

The Williams Instute on Sexual Orientatn Law and Public Policy aggregated a number of surveys on the issue, and found that up to 43% of gay people reported experiencg some form of discrimatn and harassment at work. And a Harvard Universy study found that résumés listg LGBT activi were 40% ls likely to get a ll-back terview than résumés whout any ‘gay’ referenc. On the Tth-O-Meter, the statement that is legal Oh to fire an employee or evict a tenant for beg gay rat as Te.

A FLTERED JOHN KASICH ADMS PEOPLE ARE “PROBABLY” BORN GAYEVEN WH THE NOMATN ALL BUT SEWN UP FOR TMP, KASICH N’T/WON’T STOP BEG KASICH.BY CHARL BRAMMAY 1, 2016ROCKVILLE, MD - APRIL 25: REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NDIDATE AND OH GOVERNOR JOHN KASICH SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT APRIL 25, 2016 ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND. GOVERNOR KASICH NTUED TO SEEK FOR HIS PARTY??S NOMATN FOR THE GENERAL ELECTN. (PHOTO BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAG)GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHOUGH THE OFFICIAL PARTY NOME FOR THE UPG PRINTIAL ELECTN WON’T BE NAMED UNTIL THE RPECTIVE NVENTNS THIS SUMMER, APPEARS THAT FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLTON AND PRUMABLE HUMAN MAN DONALD TMP HAVE THE GAME SEWN UP TIGHT. BUT EVEN WH THEIR NOMATNS ALL BUT EVABLE, THAT HASN’T STOPPED THE OTHER NOME OM KEEPG ON. TED CZ EARNED A SWEETLY NSCENDG “ALRIGHT, LI’L GUY” OM THE PEOPLE OF AMERI WHEN HE CLARED EARLIER THIS WEEK THAT CARLY FRA WOULD BE HIS NNG MATE THE EVENT THAT HE WS THE REPUBLIN NOMATN, AND JOHN KASICH HASN‘T ALLOWED HIS NEARLY EVABLE FAILURE TO STALL HIM ONE ME EHER.KASICH HAS GARNERED A SLIGHT BUMP POPULARY OVER THE PAST UPLE WEEKS BY PRENTG HIMSELF AS A SLIGHTLY OLER-HEAD, MORATE ALTERNATIVE TO THE SENTIENT ORANGE CYCLONE AND FORMER MUNSTERS ST MEMBER AGAST WHICH HE’S MPAIGNG. NBC NEWS HAS THE FULL REPORT OM A KASICH APPEARANCE ON FRIDAY THE QUEER-RIGHTS HUB OF SAN FRANCIS, WHERE THE NDIDATE WAS APPROPRIATELY QUTNED ABOUT HIS STANCE ON LGBTQ ISSU. KELLY BRYAN ATTEND THE EVENT AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA, AND POSED A SIMPLE, DIRECT QUTN TO THE NDIDATE:“DO YOU BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY?” HE ASKED. “I’M A 62-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN WHO ME OUT TO BOTH OF MY PARENTS AT 19. AND I'VE BEEN GAY FOR 45, OVER 40 YEARS. GAY PEOPLE ARE HUMAN BEGS AND NOT A LIFTYLE CHOICE. PLEASE RPOND WHOUT PRAYER BEG AN ANSWER.”AS THE NATURE AND PHRASG OF HIS QUTN MAY SUGGT, BRYAN WOULD LATER INTIFY HIMSELF AS A DEMOCRAT WH PLANS TO ST HIS VOTE FOR HILLARY CLTON, AND THE QUTN PERFORMED S SIGNED FUNCTN BY SETTG OFF NEARLY SEVEN MUT OF “HEATED BACK-AND-FORTH” BETWEEN KASICH AND HIS CHALLENGER. THOUGH THE MORATOR MA SEVERAL MOTNS TO KEEP THE BATE MOVG, KASICH SISTED UPON STICKG TO THIS POT, BEGNG BY DIRECTLY FYG BRYAN’S REQUT AND STATG, “WE’D ALL BE BETTER OFF THIS UNTRY IF WE PRAYED MORE.” KASICH THEN H THE NEXT UAL NSERVATIVE TALKG POT BAT OVER WHETHER OR NOT NON-HETEROSEXUAL AMERINS SERVE TO BE TREATED WH BASIC HUMAN CENCY, WEAVG THE SANCTY OF DIVIDUAL RELIG EEDOMS: “IN TERMS OF ME,” HE SAID, “I DON'T BELIEVE DISCRIMATN. I THK THERE IS A BALANCE, HOWEVER, BETWEEN DISCRIMATN AND PEOPLE'S RELIG LIBERTI."AFTER LLG FOR THAT PERFECT BALANCE AND REMENDG THAT AMERINS ALL “TAKE A CHILL PILL” AND “RELAX” — A DIFFICULT THG TO DO WHEN PEOPLE YOU’VE NEVER MET KEEP CHIPPG AWAY AT YOUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS — KASICH FALLY GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. AFTER BRYAN REPEATEDLY REQUTED AN ANSWER TO HIS ORIGAL QUTN OF WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE ARE BORN GAY, A FLTERED KASICH GAVE : “YOU KNOW, SIR, PROBABLY. I MEAN, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW ALL WORKS, OKAY? I MEAN, LOOK. ARE THEY? YOU KNOW, PROBABLY THEY ARE. OKAY?”THERE YOU HAVE , MY FELLOW AMERINS. LET THE HISTORY BOOKS SHOW THAT JOHN KASICH DO NOT KNOW HOW BEG GAY WORKS.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERCHARL BRAM

’ That apparently means Kasich won’t seek some versn of the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act that blew up Indiana, nor will he grant requts om gay-rights anizatns to add Oh to the stat prohibg discrimatn agast gay, bisexual and transgenr rints. Kasich Said “Where Do It End…If You’re In The Bs Of Sellg Thgs If You’re Not Gog To Sell To Somebody You Don’t Agree Wh, OK, Today I’m Not Gog To Sell To Somebody Who’s Gay, And Tomorrow Maybe I Won’t Sell To Somebody Whose Divorced. If you're the bs of sellg thgs, if you're not gog to sell to somebody you don't agree wh, OK, today I'm not gog to sell to somebody who's gay, and tomorrow maybe I won't sell to somebody who's divorced.

THE GOP BATE'S HOMETOWN NDIDATE JT GAVE A TOUCHG ANSWER ON GAY MARRIAGE

It said, ‘We are ncerned that your cisn to change current Department of Defense policy regardg homosexuals will be ma before the Amerin public, Congrs or our ary have had an opportuny to unrstand the implitns that such a cisn might have for the reads and qualy of life of our armed forc. Acrdg to the Washgton Tim, the bill “disurag homosexual enlistment the ary and brands homosexualy an ‘unacceptable risk’ to the morale of the armed servic. ” When asked on Crossfire 2000 why the GOP didn’t support LGBT people the ary, Kasich said that “we’re clive, but we don’t want to be mh… I mean, I thk we've had enough of mh for the last eight years…., on gays the ary, we have ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.

Gay Cy New York reported: “The adoptn cree granted [ New York] clud a directive that a new birth certifite be issued namg Vale and Talmas as Cooper's parents.

KASICH: GAY PEOPLE 'PROBABLY' BORN THAT WAY

The battle to get a proper birth certifite for Cooper would be one waged over the issue of gay marriage.

The Ccnati Enquirer reported: “Ccnati is once aga the center for Oh's battle over gay rights as four upl filed a feral urt su Monday seekg to list both parents on their children's birth certifit. [The Obergefell] su forced Oh, a state where voters approved a 2004 ban on gay marriage, to regnize gay marriage - at least for ath certifit. The new su seeks the same regnn for birth certifit issued to the children of married gay upl.

JOHN KASICH SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'PROBABLY' BORN GAY

Oh, Gerhardste noted, issued birth certifit to children beg raised by gay upl married outsi of Oh before Oh Gov. John Kasich field a hypothetil qutn at Thursday night’s Republin printial bate Cleveland about how he would expla his posn on gay marriage to his children if one of them me out as gay, h close to home.

He did so bee a few years earlier, his son Will, now 23, me out as gay.

The night before nng an op-ed the Columb Dispatch announcg his groundbreakg cisn, Portman lled a small list of top GOP officials and alli to let them know of his choice and of Will’s of the first people on that list was while Kasich, who do not personally support gay marriage, did not mentn that private nversatn specifilly his rponse Thursday night, the answer he livered — one that perhaps was more progrsive than any other ndidate on that stage would have given — uld help Portman, who is up for reelectn this year. “We need to give everybody the chance, treat everybody wh rpect and let them share this great Amerin dream that we have, ” Kasich said, notg he recently went to his first gay weddg.

TAL FROM THE TRAIL: KASICH CHALLENGED BY COLLEGE STUNT ON GAY MARRIAGE

And Oh once feared that Portman’s statement on gay marriage — an announcement he spent more than a year plottg — would hurt his chanc 2016 and take out one of the top enomic thought lears of the GOP’s tablishment Kasich’s answer Thursday, and the strong applse he got om an otherwise nservative home dience at the Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, shed light on how that ncern is dissipatg as public opn shifts quickly. That was not the se 2013 when Portman announced his support for gay marriage. John Kasich told an dience here Friday that some people are “probably” born gay after beg prsed on the issue by an dience member who said he was gay.

San Francis rint Kelly Bryan, 62, asked Kasich the qutn at a fom hosted by the Commonwealth of California Club, tellg the Oh ernor, “Gay people are human begs and not a liftyle choice.

KASICH’S SPIRUAL ADVISER THKS GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARE FASCIST “THOUGHT NAZIS”

Kasich add: “I believe tradnal marriage, (but) I jt went to a gay weddg, ” Kasich rpond. Bryan ntued to repeat the qutn about whether people are born gay, wh Kasich sayg he didn’t want to get “to the analysis of this or that.

Last March, Ben Carson apologized after sayg homosexualy is a choice bee people “go to prison straight – and when they e out, they’re gay. — -- Republin printial hopeful John Kasich said Friday that he thks gay people are "probably" born that way, and he se no reason to discrimate agast remarks me durg an tense exchange between the Oh ernor and a 62-year-old gay man at a town-hall style meetg.

KASICH TAK CENTRIST TONE ON RELIG EEDOM, GAY MARRIAGE

San Francis rint Kelly Bryan repeatedly asked Kasich if he believed gay people were born gay. But there was one moment of genue surprise: When asked about gay rights, Oh Gov.

To be clear, he didn’t actually say he supported gay rights, spe overly genero prs verage suggtg otherwise.

When Megyn Kelly asked how he would feel if his dghter were gay, Kasich ma sure to reaffirm his opposn to gay marriage rights.

JOHN KASICH: PEOPLE "PROBABLY" BORN GAY

But his answer moled, a way sure to be repeated by most Republins to e, a way for Republins to balance the base’s ntug hostily to gay rights wh the creasg cultural nsens of thkg anti-gay bigotry is bigotry. However, pared to statements by fellow ntenr Rick Santom—who tried to argue the happy hour bate that legalizg gay marriage is somehow the equivalent to clarg that black people nnot be cizens—this sound downright reasonable. It wasn’t jt that he managed to distance himself om open bigotry whout havg to actually embrace gay rights.

It’s that he provid his fellow nservativ wh a mol for how to do the same, by reamg his hostily to gay rights as merely a personal quirk, a rult of beg “old-fashned” and “tradnal. Now, if they go off on an anti-gay rant at Thanksgivg, their relativ n exce by sayg, “Well, you know Grandpa. Thgs have e a long way om 2012, where the crowd booed a gay soldier for askg if he should be able to keep his job, and went nuts for Rick Santom’s rant where he said, “Sexual activy has no place the ary, ” a ment that was notable both for rcg gay people to an “activy” and for ignorg, hilarly, that straight people the ary are allowed to have sex—to marry and have kids, even!

Matag the abily to ny bigotry while still unrmg gay rights is a major challenge facg the GOP. Conservativ are tryg out a lot of strategi, pecially the “relig liberty” angle, where nservativ hope to make life harr for gay people by protectg the abily of bs to discrimate agast gay people, much as Barry Goldwater the ‘60s tried to argue that private bs should reta the right to discrimate agast black people.