Rand Pl and the 'Moral Crisis' of Gay Marriage: A Timele - Bloomberg

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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'.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

” 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. ‘I would thk we’d give to a lot of untri that don’t have good rerds on gay rights, ’ Pl told me.

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

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.

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.

RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’

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.

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

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

Documentary also clus terviews wh Stt Lively, a notor far-right activist whose ternatnal csas agast homosexualy have e unr media scty recent years.

GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

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

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? 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.