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Contents:

• JOHN BOEHNER ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I CAN'T IMAGE' EVER SUPPORTG THIS (VIDEO)
• JOHN BOEHNER ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I CAN’T IMAGE' HAVG A GAY CHILD WOULD CHANGE MY STANCE,' SAYS HOE SPEAKER
• JOHN BOEHNER 'CAN'T IMAGE' HIS GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS SHIFTG
• BOEHNER RAK SH FOR OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN NDIDATE
• THE TIME BOEHNER WANTED A GAY MAN FIRED FOR SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS
• JOHN BOEHNER, DOMA DEFENR, CAMPAIGNS FOR OPENLY GAY GOP CANDIDATE
• JOHN BOEHNER REACTS TO OBAMA TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TYPIL JOHN BOEHNER FASHN
• JOHN BOEHNER: ‘I N’T IMAGE’ MY POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE WOULD EVER CHANGE

JOHN BOEHNER ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I CAN'T IMAGE' EVER SUPPORTG THIS (VIDEO)

Rob Portman (R-Oh) reversed his stance on gay marriage, Hoe Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh) is not dog the same.

"Before You GoGay Marriage In The Uned StatPopular the CommunyYou May Like. In an exclive terview wh Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week, ” Hoe Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) stated that he “n’t image” that havg a gay child would alter his stance on gay marriage.

Rob Portman’s change of heart on the issue, due large part to his son’s admissn that he was gay. ”The gay marriage bate was reigned on Friday, when Sen. “I have e to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime mment to love and re for each other good tim and bad, the ernment shouldn’t ny them the opportuny to get married, ” he issue of gay marriage is a source of creasg ictn among Republins Congrs, wh many argug that the party’s nservative viewpots are ntributg to their recent electn setbacks.

JOHN BOEHNER ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I CAN’T IMAGE' HAVG A GAY CHILD WOULD CHANGE MY STANCE,' SAYS HOE SPEAKER

“He had more gay staff than anybody I knew—at a time when was a b unual. Rob Portman, the Oh Republin, bucked his party and me out support of gay marriage, Hoe Speaker John Boehner, R-Oh, reaffirmed his posn agast a wi-rangg, exclive terview wh ABC News' Martha Raddatz for "This Week, " that will air on Sunday.

Boehner told Raddatz that he uld not envisn a suatn where his views would shift on same-sex marriage - even if one of his children me out as gay. Portman, who Mt Romney nsired tappg as a nng mate last year's printial electn, changed his posn on same-sex marriage after his son me out to him as gay. The Oh senator is among a small, but growg number of proment members of the GOP to exprs support for gay marriage.

JOHN BOEHNER 'CAN'T IMAGE' HIS GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS SHIFTG

Speaker John Boehner vowed last year that he’d back gay GOP ndidat. The Oh Republin is headg to California this week, where he’ll raise sh for openly gay Republin ndidate Carl DeMa fiance of several nservative groups. The GOP’s efforts to broan the playg field clu rac blue stat New York, New England and California, and support for gay ndidat DeMa and Massachetts’s Richard Tisei.

), who supports gay marriage. Last December, Boehner shot down lls for the NRCC to abandon gay GOP ndidat, argug the party need to make better roads wh gays, women and mori followg the party’s poor showg the 2012 electn. DeMa, 40, a former San Diego Cy uncilor who was feated by Democrat Bob Filner the 2012 mayor’s race, hasn’t shied away om his sexual orientatn or support for gay marriage: a mpaign ad featured him and his partner, Jonathan Hale, holdg hands durg a San Diego LGBT para.

BOEHNER RAK SH FOR OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN NDIDATE

The GOP’s 100-page “topsy report, ” published the wake of the 2012 electn, did not endorse gay marriage but urged the party to be more “welg and clive” of people wh different viewpots to avoid alienatg young voters. But when to gay ndidat, DeMa may be the last, bt hope for the GOP, Democrats said. Openly gay Republin Dan Innis didn’t make out of his primary New Hampshire.

THE TIME BOEHNER WANTED A GAY MAN FIRED FOR SUPPORTG GAY RIGHTS

In the Uned Stat, there are 29 stat where you n fire someone jt bee they're gay. And yet, Speaker John Boehner, who uld brg the Employment Non Discrimatn Act to a vote, se "no basis or need for this legislatn" —even though 2010 he wanted to fire a gay Obama appotee for his gay rights advocy.

JOHN BOEHNER, DOMA DEFENR, CAMPAIGNS FOR OPENLY GAY GOP CANDIDATE

S., there are 29 stat where you n fire someone jt bee they're gay.

To say there's no need for that kd of legislatn would be to ignore all his party has done to say gay people aren't equal.

JOHN BOEHNER REACTS TO OBAMA TALKG ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TYPIL JOHN BOEHNER FASHN

In 2009, Print Obama appoted Harry Knox, who is gay, to his Advisory Council on Fah-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The HRC, of urse, is one of the largt and most visible gay rights advocy anizatns.

"The [gay and lbian] muny is eager to help the admistratn achieve s goals around enomic revery and fightg poverty, fatherhood and healthy fai; ter-relig dialogue; re for the environment; and global poverty, health and velopment, " Knox said at the time of his appotment. "It wasn't long after his appotment aln of anti-gay groups — cludg the Fay Rearch Council, the Catholic League, and the nservative media watchdog, The Media Rearch Center — sent a letter askg Obama to fire him, llg him an "anti-Catholic bigot. "Now Boehner's letter do not explicly say Knox should be fired bee he was gay.

JOHN BOEHNER: ‘I N’T IMAGE’ MY POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE WOULD EVER CHANGE

A prs release om the Catholic League print Bill Donohue about why Knox is "unf to serve" specifilly mentned that Knox is a "sexually active homosexual" (which, Donohue suggts, is worse than beg jt "gay"). And when me to the specifics of how Knox was beg anti-Catholic, his advocy of gay rights was ont and center. " Four of those seven stanc of "bigotry" volved a gay issue or statements Knox had ma at the Human Rights Campaign.

Agreement that lled for crimalizg homosexualy; Knox cricized the Knights of Columb for supportg California's Prop. 8; The HRC cricized the Pope for sayg that same-same-sex relatnships were "a stctn of God's work"; Knox said that a legally-wed, Wisns lbian uple should be able to receive munn One need not be gay to be favor of gay rights, but for many gay people, their own sexualy shap their views on the issu. "Anti-Catholic bigotry, " as ed by the people urgg Knox be fired, seems to be fed as supportg gay rights all by self is an afont to, employment discrimatn terms that ENDA als , the qutn would be whether or not Boehner and his horts wanted to fire Knox for beg a gay man.