Marco Rubio moved one degree to the left on same-sex marriage, and now conservatives are over him entirely.
Wednesday night news broke that earlier in the day Senator and GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio announced he will not support a constitutional amendment allowing states to ban same-sex marriage. The amendment, supported by Ted Cruz and Scott Walker, has zero chance of ever becoming law, and Rubio likely saw the move as a way to maintain his deeply-held religious beliefs against marriage for same-sex couples while perhaps garnering a bit more support from younger Republicans, and libertarians.
“I don’t support a constitutional amendment. I don’t believe the federal government should be in the marriage regulation business,” Rubio told reporters in Iowa.
“We can continue to disagree with it. Perhaps a future court will change that decision, in much the same way as it’s changed other decisions in the past. But my opinion is unchanged, that marriage should continue to be defined as one man and one woman. The decision is what it is, and that’s what we’ll live under,” he said.
Rubio stressed he disagreed with the supreme Court’s marriage decision “on constitutional grounds,” adding, as Bloomberg News reported: “Irrespective of how one may feel about the definition of marriage, we’re still all Americans.”
Apparently, those on the right disagree, entirely.
Remember, this is the same Marco Rubio who recently said same-sex marriage is “a real and present danger“Â to Christians.
Right wing bloggers are calling Rubio’s statement “bizarro” and “mystifying.”
Conservatives on Twitter are even more extreme.
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