These Anti-Gay Quotes From GOP Candidates Will Make You Want to Choose Rand to Run Against Hillary in 2016
If you’re pro-gay rights, are you “ready” for Hillary? Hillary will be the 2016 Democratic nominee. That leaves you without much to do during the primaries… Or does it?
These anti-gay quotes by 2016 GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum will inspire you to vote for Rand Paul in the GOP primary, where your vote can make a big difference in shaping the Republican party to be more gay-friendly. Supporting Rand would actually make an impact where it matters, in the party where people like the gentlemen in the following pages reside.
#1. Jeb Bush
“we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage,” Jeb Bush told Christian Broadcasting Network last month.
“It’s at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine”
Earlier this month, Scott Walker said on ABC that he believes “marriage is between one man and one woman,”
“the only next approach is for those who are supporters of marriage being defined as between one man and one woman is ultimately to consider pursuing a constitutional amendment.”
Following the nationalization of same-sex marriage, Walker stated: “I believe this Supreme Court decision is a grave mistake. Five unelected judges have taken it upon themselves to redefine the institution of marriage.”
#2. Marco Rubio
“After they are done going after individuals, the next step is to argue that the teachings of mainstream Christianity, the catechism of the Catholic Church, is hate speech and there’s a real and present danger,” alleged Marco Rubio on Christian Broadcasting Network last month.
#3. Ben Carson
Ben Carson proudly proclaims on his website, “we need to reverse the recent trend of secular progressives using activist, federal judges to drive faith out of our society.”
He sounded almost humorous this year when he explained that being gay is a choice “Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay,”
“So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”
Carson even said that to force a Christian baker to make a wedding cake for a gay couple “is really not all that smart because [the baker] might put poison in that cake.”
#4. Mike Huckabee
Huckabee defiantly writes on his website: “We’ve abandoned the building blocks of civilization. Life, marriage and family issues aren’t bargaining chips or political considerations. They are moral issues.”
“I may stand alone, but I am absolutely faithful to the issue of marriage. Not because it’s politically expedient, but because it’s the Biblical position, the historical position and the right position. We must defend, protect and preserve traditional marriage.”
#5. Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz also dedicated a substantial section of his website to celebrating his straightness, bragging about how he “Authored legislation and a constitutional amendment in the Senate to prevent federal courts from further interfering with any state’s Constitutionally-protected authority to define marriage”
Cruz has fought for “the right of states to define marriage, without intrusion by unelected federal judges, by drafting the State Marriage Defense Act.”
#6. Rick Perry
Rick Perry allegedly thinks of queerness as an addiction. “Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that,” Perry reportedly stated. “I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”
In response to the Supreme Court decision, Perry said, “I am disappointed the Supreme Court today chose to change the centuries old definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. I’m a firm believer in traditional marriage”
#7. Rick Santorum
Last, but certainly not least, Rick Santorum. Of course, Santorum is known for his homophobic views. His name has come to be defined as a horrible pejorative that we don’t want to define here for fear of losing our advertisers. Needless to say, you shouldn’t click on that link unless you have a strong stomach.
“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.”
“I would argue, this right to privacy … doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold — Griswold was the contraceptive case — and abortion. And now we’re just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you — this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it’s my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that’s antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it’s polygamy, whether it’s adultery, where it’s sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.”
His anti-gay views are so extensive that they have their own Wikipedia page! That’s pretty impressive. He even suggests that gay sex should be illegal.
I am not asking for your vote in the general election, I know it belongs to Hillary Clinton. But with Rand Paul as the Republican nominee, there will be zero chance of an anti-gay President taking office.