Posted on 05/17/2015 6:10:35 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Jeb Bush knows the way he would rule on same-sex marriage if he were a Supreme Court justice.
Interviewed Sunday by the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody, Bush was asked whether he believed that gay marriage was a right protected by the U.S. constitution.
“I don’t, but I’m not a lawyer, and clearly this has been accelerated at a warp pace,” he said.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule sometime next month on whether gay marriage should be made legal in all 50 U.S. states, and Bush tied the future of the country itself to the issue of the family structure.
"To imagine how we're going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine," Bush said. "Irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling, because they're going to decide whatever they decide, and I don't know what they're going to do, we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage."
In previous interviews, Bush has argued that same-sex marriage is something best left to the states to decide. On Sunday, however, he spoke about the issue in much more urgent, and moralistic terms.
"If we want to create a right-to-rise society, where people, particularly children born in poverty, if we want to have them have a chance we should be—a core American value," Bush said, "we have to restore committed, loving family life with a mom and a dad loving their children with their heart and soul."
In the wake of the nationwide controversy over so-called religious freedom laws, that critics argue allow for discrimination against same-sex couples, Bush was asked whether he thought it acceptable for business owners to refuse to provide services for a gay wedding.
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I'm voting for Jeb! </barf>
Sorry Jeb. God beat you and the states to it, when He created, defined, and instituted marriage at the beginning of the creation.
We can probably safely state that his actual view is likely 180° out from his statement here.
Especially considering he went full tard on common core and other liberal feel good buzzwords.
He got lit up for it, and now he wants to pull a snow job to seem like he isn’t all that bad.
What a putz.
who’s jeb bush?
Yahoo news says that ‘he says’.
Gooollleeee, that’s good enough for me!!
Go Jeb!!
Good for Bush, but duh?
Sorry Jeb, no sale.
Jeb could promise me a new Porsche and he still wouldn’t get my vote.
GOD'S not a lawyer neither and He authored the situation .... lawyers have NOTHING to do with a LOT of the questions America is facing today.
He’s Marco Rubio’s mentor on amnesty for fraudulently documented foreigners. He’s also the brother of George W Bush who tried twice to “Comprehensively Screw Americans Out Of Their Country” with amnesty for fraudulently documented foreigners.
Me too, assuming he is the nominee, although Ted Cruz is my first choice, and who I intend to vote for in the primary.
Well I dont think its fair to compare Jeb to Hillary,,,,Hillary is a better man,
she does wear the pants....in that family
He’s pulling a McCain. Utter BS.
Why is Jeb accepting the premise of these questions?
No wonder conservatives are going to stay home.
He should have been honest and said, It’s not yet.
In fact my advise would be for him not to bother trying.
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