Rand Pl: Gay marriage bate a ‘moral crisis’ - The Washgton Post

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• RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’
• MCCONNELL, RAND PL MORY AS SENATE OKS BILL PROTECTG TERRACIAL, GAY MARRIAGE
• RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”
• RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: IF WE “MAKE THE TAX CO NTRAL,’ WE “DON’T HAVE TO REFE WHAT MARRIAGE IS”
• PL ON GAY MARRIAGE ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’
• RAND PL ALL RIGHT WH 'NTRAL' FERAL GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’
• RAND PL SOMEHOW US THE GAY MARRIAGE RULG TO ATTACK LABOR LAWS
• RAND PL SAYS KY CLERK’S GAY MARRIAGE PROTT IS ‘PART OF THE AMERIN WAY’
• GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL
• RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE

RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’

Pl on gay marriage 'People ought to be treated fairly'. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. ” No tweets, however, on gay marriage.

Aga, though, there was no mentn of gay marriage or the high urt’s landmark lg earlier that day — on any of the ndidate’s many social media acunts. The Kentucky senator’s silence on the gay marriage lg fs the pattern.

Pl hasn’t reaed om talkg about gay marriage before, however.

MCCONNELL, RAND PL MORY AS SENATE OKS BILL PROTECTG TERRACIAL, GAY MARRIAGE

He later suggted that marriage should be left to the stat to ci, so that opponents of marriage equaly uld keep fightg the issue for “s, ” even if that means “New York State may have gay marriage, but Alabama not. Harmful Rhetoric: Pl joked that Print Obama’s views on marriage uldn’t “get any gayer” and then suggted that marriage equaly would lead to people marryg non-human objects. Rand Pl Joked at Conservative Conference: “I Wasn’t Sure [Print Obama’s] Views On Marriage Could Get Any Gayer.

Rand Pl remarked on Print Obama's cisn to publicly support same-sex marriage by sayg, ‘Call me cynil, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage uld get any gayer’… ‘It did kd of bother me though that he ed the jtifitn for a biblil reference, ’ he ntued to more lghter. ‘He said the biblil goln le ed him to be for gay marriage. Pl Said He Was “Fe wh Allowg the Stat to Determe” the Defn of Marriage, Even If That Meant “New York State May Well Have Gay Marriage and Alabama Not.

If you do that, then New York [S]tate may well have gay marriage and Alabama may not. But when to the right for gays to marry, you said should be left up to the stat.

RAND PL: THKS PRINT OBAMA COULDN’T “GET ANY GAYER”

But orr [for the party to] work—and this is what a lot of people don’t realize this and they say “oh well we want the Republins to be the pro-choice, pro-gay marriage party— may not be that but may be that there are people the Republin party that have those posns and some who don’t, and that we all get along bee we believe limed ernment and we acknowledge that the feral ernment isn’t gog to be volved some of the issu anyways. ‘If you tell people om Alabama, Mississippi or Geia, 'You know what, guys, we've been wrong, and we're gonna be the pro-gay-marriage party, ' they're eher gonna stay home or — I mean, many of the people joed the Republin Party bee of the social issu. Rand Pl (R-KY) on Thursday told a group of pastors and relig lears that the bate over gay marriage was a symptom of a ‘moral crisis’ Ameri and said he hoped for ‘another Great Awakeng.

” Acrdg to the Wall Street Journal: “Unr the [ENDA] bill as passed out of mtee, employers generally would be barred om discrimatg hirg and firg cisns bee a worker was gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred, meang they are livg life as the oppose genr om how they were born. ) may offer an amendment to exempt any for-prof bs that says hirg gay people would ‘burn the employer’s exercise of relign. Jan Brewer weighs whether to sign a bill that would allow bs to ny servic to gay ctomers, top natnal Republins jt want the issue to go away….

I asked if he endorsed a policy iated by the Obama admistratn, unr then-Secretary Clton, to make gay rights a prendn of aid to human rights NGOs.

RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: IF WE “MAKE THE TAX CO NTRAL,’ WE “DON’T HAVE TO REFE WHAT MARRIAGE IS”

‘I would thk we’d give to a lot of untri that don’t have good rerds on gay rights, ’ Pl told me. I’d be happy to say, for untri that punish you for homosexualy, too.

Joked Print Obama’s views on marriage uldn’t “get any gayer”.

Rand Pl Joked At Conservative Conference: “I Wasn’t Sure [Print Obama’s] Views On Marriage Could Get Any Gayer.

PL ON GAY MARRIAGE ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’

MAY 2013: Rand Pl On Homosexualy: We Don’t “Need To Be Harsh And Mean And Hate People..

MAY 2013: Pl Said “I Don’t Thk I’ve Ever Used The Words ‘Gay Rights’ Bee I Really Don’t Believe In Rights Based On Your Behavr. Rand Pl And Mike Huckabee Will Appear In Anti-LGBT Documentary Featurg “Ex-Homosexuals” And Anti-LGBT Activists. The documentary also featur appearanc om so-lled “ex-homosexuals” and a nservative activist lked to anti-gay human rights vlatns Slated for a Febary 24 release at the Natnal Relig Broadster’s nventn Nashville, Relig Right activist Ja Porter’s “Light Ws: How to Overe the Crimalizatn of Christiany” featur ttimony om a wi range of right-wg activists, cludg anti-femist csar Phyllis Schlafly, evangelil polemicist David Barton, creatnist Ken Ham, and Foc on the Fay founr Jam Dobson.

Anti-LGBT Documentary Featurg Rand Pl And Mike Huckabee Also Featur Stt Lively, Who Claimed Cred For Rsia’s Anti-Gay Propaganda Law And Is Lked To Ugandan Anti-LGBT Measure.

RAND PL ALL RIGHT WH 'NTRAL' FERAL GAY MARRIAGE LAW

Documentary also clus terviews wh Stt Lively, a notor far-right activist whose ternatnal csas agast homosexualy have e unr media scty recent years. While Lively has distanced himself om the legislatn, he has been lked to a Ugandan measure, sce stck down, that imposed the ath penalty for homosexualy. Though he hasn’t embraced his role that untry’s anti-gay crackdown, he has personally claimed cred for Rsia’s dranian law agast so-lled gay propaganda.

RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’

In the Christian Coaln 2010 Voter Gui, durg his race agast Democrat Jack Conway, Pl dited support for “enforcg the 1993 law banng homosexuals the ary.

You’re not supposed to aternize heterosexual or homosexual….. A gay uple march Sydney’s annual Mardi Gras gay pri para on March 2, 2013. What about gay marriage?

RAND PL SOMEHOW US THE GAY MARRIAGE RULG TO ATTACK LABOR LAWS

I paraphrased a joke Pl had told last year Iowa, after Barack Obama had flip-flopped—sorry, evolved—on gay marriage, and Pl told social nservativ that Obama uldn’t “get any gay-er. I don't re who you are, what you do at home", but that on gay marriage 's up to the stat.

"I've always said that the stat have the right to ci, " Pl, who oppos gay marriage, said on "Fox News Sunday. ), Robert Costa elics some of his brg-Ameri-home foreign policy, which is not gog to be to the likg of many Republins (this one clud) but is evince of his willgns to shake up the to be missed is a somewhat bigger revelatn for those not so faiar wh Pl’s views:Gay marriage, for stance, is one issue on which Pl would like to shake up the Republin posn. But gettg the feral ernment out of the marriage bs, ferrg to the stat and allowg dividuals to, as he says, enter to ntracts wh one another, n be the way out of the gay marriage thicket for the GOP, I would Supreme Court, pendg on s lg the same-sex marriage s, may assist this procs by strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act, the biggt aggrandizement of feral power on marriage my lifetime (maybe ever).

RAND PL SAYS KY CLERK’S GAY MARRIAGE PROTT IS ‘PART OF THE AMERIN WAY’

In dog so, he weav together labor laws that protect workers and ensure them cent wag wh spectral legal s that will punish mom and pop bakeri that refe merce wh gay upl-to-be. "Pl has given that answer on gay marriage qutns nsistently, before and after the Supreme Court's 5-4 cisn that legalized the practice every state.

GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

But the pro-gay rights Human Rights Campaign pots out that Pl has -sponsored the First Amendment Defense Act, a rponse to the cisn that would prohib "any discrimatory actn agast a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person believ or acts acrdance wh a relig belief or moral nvictn that marriage is or should be regnized as the unn of one man and one woman. For Brad and Cyndi Marler, was that they are both gay.

That’s not to ny so many amazg shifts public attus, laws, polici, but did not wash away a hundred years of homophobia society, ” said Ilan Meyer, a distguished senr scholar of public policy wh the Williams Instute. “Beg homosexual, you’re jt gog to go straight to hell. Even as stris were ma natnally for gay rights, the Marlers feared beg found out.

RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE

It was a hoe of rds that need to e down, Brad had bee eply prsed and began workg on his ternalized homophobia wh the help of weekly therapy. Brad noted that the shame he associated wh his sexualy was triggered after his mother nonted him when he was 16 about the possibily of beg gay. The Christian Broadstg Network's David Brody had exclive accs to the meetg, and had a mera right on Pl as he urged misters and activist to battle the "moral crisis" that has led to mass acceptance of gay marriage.

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