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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Longtime social conservative Newt Gingrich has made a surprising admission,
saying he accepts marriage equality as inevitable and he’s OK with it.
Voters’ legalization of same-sex marriage in three states in November’s
election changed the debate over the issue, and conservatives have to come
to terms with it, the former House speaker and Republican presidential
aspirant told The Huffington Post. “It is in every family,” he said. “It
is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the direction in
finding some way to ... accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality
is going to be that in a number of American states — and it will be more
after 2014 — gay relationships will be legal, period.”
The thrice-married Gingrich, a convert to Roman Catholicism, said he
recognizes the distinction between religious and civil marriage. He and his
church consider the former to be limited to male-female couples, but he has
no problem with the state giving legal recognition to same-sex pairs, he
said.
This is a significant departure from Gingrich’s previous stance; just this
year, while seeking the Republican presidential nomination, he told
religious right supporters, “The effort to create alternatives to marriage
between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they
are a fundamental violation of our civilization.” He also signed an Iowa
conservative group’s pledge to support the Defense of Marriage Act and to
seek a federal constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
But much has changed, he said. He noted to HuffPo that he not only has a
lesbian half-sister, LGBT rights activist Candace Gingrich, but has gay
friends who’ve gotten married in Iowa, where their unions are legal. Public
opinion has shifted in favor of marriage equality, he said, and the
Republican Party could end up on the wrong side of history if it continues
to go against the tide.
“I didn’t think that [marriage equality] was inevitable 10 or 15 years ago
, when we passed the Defense of Marriage Act,” he said. “It didn’t seem
at the time to be anything like as big a wave of change as we are now seeing
.” | g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 2 Suprise!
谁说成年人难变？顺水人情谁不愿意给？ | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 3 I think he made this discovery before he entered the election process. He
just knew well enough that he cannot afford to publicize this stance of his
to his prospective supporters within his own party.
He is a weathered politician long in Washington. It is highly unlikely he
remains genuinely anti-LGBT issues. | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 4 Or, it could be just clever political calculation, which is fine by us. We
do not need each and every politician to be pro-LGBT from the deepest of
their hearts/minds.
【在 g********d 的大作中提到】
: Suprise!
: 谁说成年人难变？顺水人情谁不愿意给？
| m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 5 说不定他们心里一直就支持我们，但是为了政治目的，就把我们都卖了。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: Or, it could be just clever political calculation, which is fine by us. We
: do not need each and every politician to be pro-LGBT from the deepest of
: their hearts/minds.
| D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 6 I tend to think this so-called change of heart of these GOP big-names is
more likely new political calculation. They must have figured out that as a
political party GOP must make dramatic alteration on their LGBT stance or
they risk never being able to win back the White House any time soon.
Because when it comes to LGBT issues, the young voters are unproportionally
on the DEM's side.
【在 m******1 的大作中提到】
: 说不定他们心里一直就支持我们，但是为了政治目的，就把我们都卖了。
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