Kasich tak centrist tone on relig eedom, gay marriage - POLITICO

Contents:

• THE REACTN JOHN KASICH GOT FOR ACCEPTG GAY MARRIAGE SHOWS HOW FAR THE GOP HAS COME
• JOHN KASICH GETS PERSONAL ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE GOP BATE'S HOMETOWN NDIDATE JT GAVE A TOUCHG ANSWER ON GAY MARRIAGE
• JOHN KASICH WON APPLSE FOR HIS GAY MARRIAGE BATE ANSWER. THAT’S GREAT NEWS FOR ROB PORTMAN.
• WHAT JOHN KASICH WOULD TELL HIS DGHTERS IF THEY CAME OUT AS GAY
• JOHN KASICH'S GAY MARRIAGE RPONSE MAY HAVE BEEN THE MOMENT OF THE NIGHT
• TAL FROM THE TRAIL: KASICH CHALLENGED BY COLLEGE STUNT ON GAY MARRIAGE
• KASICH TAK CENTRIST TONE ON RELIG EEDOM, GAY MARRIAGE
• JOHN KASICH OFFERS A GRAC, HUMANE VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE AT THE GOP DEBATE
• JOHN KASICH’S GAY MARRIAGE MANVER WAS A GIFT TO THE GOP
• JOHN KASICH SUPPORTS 'MOVG ON' FROM GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE

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

” 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. 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.

JOHN KASICH GETS PERSONAL ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

I jt went to a weddg of a iend of me who is gay. 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. “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.

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

Said he did not approve of the “gay liftyle”. 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. Kasich: “I Don’t Approve Of The Gay Liftyle.

” 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.

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

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 ....

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

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. I don’t support gay marriage.

’ ‘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. John Kasich reaffirmed his posn on gay marriage yterday.

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. And I have a number of iends who are gay, OK?

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.

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

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. ’ 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.

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.

KASICH TAK CENTRIST TONE ON RELIG EEDOM, GAY MARRIAGE

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

” [Gay Cy News, 4/30/2014]. 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.

JOHN KASICH OFFERS A GRAC, HUMANE VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE AT THE GOP DEBATE

The new su seeks the same regnn for birth certifit issued to the children of married gay upl. Oh, Gerhardste noted, issued birth certifit to children beg raised by gay upl married outsi of Oh before Oh Gov. John Kasich talks about the Supreme Court lg fdg a natnwi right to same-sex marriage, and scrib how he would react if one of his dghters were gay.

John Kasich (R) earned applse om a hometown crowd durg the first Republin printial primary bate Cleveland on Thursday was asked by Fox News bate morator Megyn Kelly how he would expla his opposn to gay marriage to a son or dghter who was theoretilly gay or lbian.

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

I jt went to a weddg of a iend of me who happens to be gay. The overwhelmg cheerg was a noticeable ntrast om jt four years ago durg another GOP primary bate featurg Kelly, which a crowd booed a gay soldier. 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.

JOHN KASICH SUPPORTS 'MOVG ON' FROM GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE

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.