Donald Trump says his views on same-sex marriage are 'evolving'

Daily Mail ^ | 10 November 2013 | James Nye

[SoConPubbie]

Donald Trump has admitted his views on gay marriage are 'evolving', however, the property mogul claimed that he is still a strong supporter of traditional marriage between a man and woman.

Speaking to openly gay MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, the billionaire said that his views on the subject are different to what they were 10 years ago and pointed to President Obama coming out in support of same-sex marriage.

In Moscow as the co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization, Trump attended Saturday night's pageant along with Roberts, who openly criticized Russia's anti-gay laws.

Evolving: Donald Trump has claimed that he is changing his mind on the issue of gay marriage but still believes in the traditional union of a man and a a woman

'I think I’m evolving, and I think I’m a very fair person, but I have been for traditional marriage,' said Trump to Roberts in an interview before the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

'I am for traditional marriage,' Trump said. 'I am for a marriage between a man and a woman.'

Discussing the issue of same-sex marriage in society, Trump was asked if his outspoken opposition to Russia's infamous anti-gay laws had helped shift his opinion.

'I think really what you have is a very changing stance, and you see it changing very rapidly. If you go back 10 years ago it’s very different,' Trump responded.

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[CatherineofAragon]

This guy is so lucky. His positions always happen to “evolve” when he’s thinking of running for president.

How convenient for him. ;)

[Ann Archy]

5000 YEARS of Traditional Marriage.....how can ANYONE “evolve”. Go away your stupid person.

[chris37]

So is his ridiculous comb over.

[ClearCase_guy]

Here's the thing with actual Conservative values:

Historically, going back centuries, many (but not all!) Conservatives have been Christian. But you do not NEED to be Christian to be a Conservative. But historically, even those thinkers who did not actually believe in the Judeo-Christian faith, if they were Conservatives, they still saw the value in the moral rules laid down in the Bible.

Individuals, families, and society benefit from these moral precepts. Even if you don't share the faith, you can see that these social rules have value.

And therefore, faith or not, there should be no question of "evolving".

Homosexuality is wrong. Always has been. Always will be. People who "evolve" on the issue are utterly missing the entire point of what Conservatism is all about. It's about a moral code which is above mere human whim.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

All of that said.

Trump is saying the absolutely right things about American jobs.

Nobody else, is saying a single word, yet more and more formerly American goods are now manufactured in China.

That is not right. Not right at all.

[Oliviaforever]

Having been married three times, we know that Trump evolves quickly on the issue of marriage.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Trump is saying the absolutely right things about American jobs. Nobody else, is saying a single word...

That's idiotic frankly. I mean that's too stupid for words.

[MeshugeMikey]

My views on Gay Marriage.... are evolving too.

Im beginning to think that anyone who supports it... should be tattooed... with a Scarlet G on their forehead!!

Thank you!

[Caipirabob]

Donald "Egon" Trump?

[tallyhoe]

He evolved parties 3 or 4 times now.. I don’t trust him!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Who is saying America needs to bring back American jobs?

Who?

[CatherineofAragon]

Same here.

[tbw2]

Dennis Prager did a great article on this:

Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3292085/posts?page=5

[ClearCase_guy]

I was absolutely thinking of that very article when I posted my reply.

[ClarenceThomasfan]

I hope Trump doesn’t run. After his big donation to the Clinton foundation was revealed last week, I think he is a trojan horse and closet Clinton fan.

If he does run I hope he isn’t allowed on the debates. He is an embarrassment.

[sagar]

“5000 YEARS of Traditional Marriage”

Are you saying that polygamy, raiding villages for maidens, etc., were also “traditional”? After all, they date back to antiquity.

[faithhopecharity]

Trump at least questioned O’s obvious lack of qualification for the American presidency and trump says some pro- jobs things too. But I can’t even imagine why he wants to “evolve” on homosexual “marriage” (sic). Sick. Sicko.

[sagar]

Trump is a tumor with HUGE ego. Avoid him at all costs, if Republicans want to win back control in 2016. Not that it really matters.

[hecticskeptic]

He evolved parties 3 or 4 times now.. I don’t trust him!

Evolved? Trump should get to know these two verses…. Malachi 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I change not….” And James 1:8 “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”