Breaking: Marco Rubio Suggests Being Gay Is A Choice, But Says He’d Attend A Same-Sex Wedding

After days of being pummeled for his position on same-sex marriage, and after Hillary Clinton came out in full force for marriage equality, GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio is trying to soften his stance.

Marco Rubio is once again following in Hillary Clinton‘s footsteps. The Democratic former Secretary of State announced her entry into the 2016 race for the White House on Sunday. Marco Rubio tossed his hat into the ring on Monday. The only Democrat to enter the race so far, today Hillary Clinton offered her unqualified support for same-sex marriage, voicing her hopes the U.S. Supreme Court would find a “constitutional right” for marriage equality. Moments ago, Marco Rubio attempted to soften his stance, albeit ever so slightly, and with a nod to anti-gay extremists, in an interview with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos.

“If someone in your family, or in your office, happens to be gay, and they invite you to their wedding, would you go?,” Ramos, a nationally recognized journalist and a leader among the Hispanic community, asked.

“If there’s someone that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decision, or the decisions they’ve made, I’d continue to love them and participate in important events,” Rubio said, suggesting, or perhaps telegraphing to the religious right, that he believes being gay is a choice.

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“Ultimately how you treat a person that you care for and love is different than what your opinion is, or what your faith teaches marriage should be,” he added.

Rubio also compared being gay and marrying a person of the same sex to divorce, both of which the Catholic Church teaches are sins.

“If it’s somebody in my life that I care for, of course I would,” Rubio responded, without hesitation.

“I’m not going to hurt them simply because I disagree with a choice they’ve made or because I disagree with a decision they’ve made, or whatever it may be,” he added, seeming to suggest that being gay is a choice. “Ultimately, if someone that you care for and is part of your family has decided to move in one direction or another or feels that way because of who they love, you respect that because you love them.”

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“I’m a member of the Catholic faith that teaches, for example, that divorce is wrong,” Rubio said. “But if someone gets divorced, I’m not going to stop loving them or having them a part of our lives.”

Rubio came under intense scrutiny Tuesday, by The New Civil Rights Movement, and later, by MSNBC, after he told an MSNBC reporter he had never supported a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which both NCRM and MSNBC proved false.

 

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