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I happen to believe that the best setting for raising a child is where this is the opportunity to a mom and a dad to be in the home. There are many circumstances where that is not possible. Through death. Divorce, he said. I know many gay couples are able to adopt children. That is fine. But my preference is we encourage the marriage of a man and a woman and we continue to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)What an idiotic statement. Raising a child is far more of a commitment than reciting some vows in front of a guy in a robe. If you're gonna allow gay couples to formally adopt a kid then you goddamn better allow them to at least make a public acknowledgment that they will stay together to raise that kid.
As far as I'm concerned he's just more or less hinted that he is indeed in favor of same sex marriage, he just doesn't have the cojones to come out and say so. But then who in their right mind expects to see him show any cojones at all?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)turning to the Etch-A-Sketch. Probably why he's confused.
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maddezmom
(135,060 posts)guess he's trying to make up some ground after being outed as a bullying gay basher in his youth.
LonePirate
(13,407 posts)That's how I would interpret that bizarre statement of his.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)tanyev
(42,514 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)He has to now.
Don
cali
(114,904 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)He's so transparently duplicitous.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)It's gonna be fun watching them get their footing.
TheKentuckian
(25,018 posts)The Etch A Sketch is wildly all over the map, too damn funny.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I mean they're the spawn of satan anyway, so being raised in a gay household can't ruin them any more...