Posted on 08/26/2015 5:32:00 AM PDT by wagglebee
LOS ANGELES, CA, August 25, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The GOP's leading presidential candidate said that he has been to a gay "wedding" and that conservatives should accept the Supreme Court's redefinition of marriage.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Donald Trump was asked whether the issue of marriage's redefinition is "a dead issue for the GOP at this point."
"Some people have hopes of passing amendments [to the U.S. Constitution]," said Trump, "but it's not going to happen. Congress can't pass simple things, let alone that. So anybody that's making that an issue is doing it for political reasons. The Supreme Court ruled on it."
In June, Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper that he had evolved on the issue of marriage, and supports "traditional marriage." At the time, he was pressed by Tapper on whether Trump's three marriages undermined his position.
"They have a very good point," said Trump. "I have a great marriage. I have a great wife now. And I – my two wives were very good. And I don't blame them. But I was working, maybe like you, 22 hours a day."
"I blame myself because my business was so powerful for me. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing," he said.
Trump told the Reporter that he had been to the gay "wedding" of Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth.
I see you are still in denial. :-)
denial my foot
Soon you will be in acceptance which is the final stage of grief. LOL!
Trump is an obvious phony.
This country is so dead. I don’t think it can be salvaged.
Well don’t worry Trump is going to make America great again. :=)
No, he is not.
The smut loving Godless Chump is a phony. He loves gay marriage and wants to put a pro-abortion activist on the Supreme Court.
He loves big government. He loves Kelo and ENDA etc
He has flip-flopped on everything else.
There is nothing, NOTHING at all that recommends Donald Trump to any actual conservative. Nothing.
I don’t know how long people will go on fooling themselves but this is a sad spectacle. I cannot say we haven’t seen this kind of thing before, because we have.
You will feel so much better when you move from denial into acceptance. :-)
What I like most about Trump is his attitude. He’s a fighter who refuses to back down, and he will never apologize for offending the politically incorrect crowd. He stands in stark contrast to the supine and timorous “leadership” that has been provided for so long by the Boehners, McConnells, Romneys, McCains, Grahams, Corkers, Flakes and so on.
However, I’m not a Trumpet. I’m a Cruzer.
well, *that* didn’t take long and I wasn’t following
the Trumpster anyway.
hoping no one is devastated by his showing his real
colors
Let’s be fair. Trump deserves credit for making it politically possible for candidates who are actual conservatives to say things which are not politically correct without being crucified for doing so. For example, compared to “blasts from the Trump,” nothing Ben Carson said about Islam sounds particularly radical or extreme. It’s not at all clear that Carson would not have come under severe pressure to apologize if Trump weren’t in this race. Trump has made being “politically incorrect” not only possible but also helpful, and others are benefiting from his actions.
Trump also deserves credit for making the money of a traditional GOP-e candidate irrelevant, or at least much less relevant. Mitt Romney was able to use his money to devastating effect by creating an illusion of inevitability. Jeb Bush’s campaign this year probably counted on being able to do the same thing.
As far as I’m concerned, Trump is running for the wrong office. I wish he were running for mayor of New York City or governor of New York State. He may well be the most conservative man who could realistically be elected to either position, given the makeup of the electorate there.
At the presidential level, conservatives can do better, and I hope we do.
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