I’m not looking for anything to hold against Trump. There’s plenty else for me to use if that were my intent.
As I said, in my world, the two positions are mutually exclusive because the question asked was how he, as a presidential candidate, would be more inclusive of LGBT people. First he said NC shouldn’t have passed the law. Then he said NC (and other states) should pass whatever legislation they see fit on the issue because it isn’t a federal issue.
As a presidential candidate, he should have given the second answer first to make it clear where he stood on the issue politically. But he was speaking to the LGBT crowd on NBC. So he went with an “it’s bad for business” answer to placate that crowd. Then later on Hannity when he was speaking to a conservative crowd, he went with states’ rights to walk back his earlier misstep with the conservative base.
We’re not talking about a casual statement of opinion with an accompanying assertion of legal rights, such as smoking. We’re talking about a presidential candidate taking two positions on an issue within a span of 12 hours in front of two different audiences. If you don’t see the contradiction in that, you’re looking for an excuse.
He was against the decision that NC made but he said the States have a right to make that decision.
There is no contradiction.
You just don't like the fact that he was able to expand his thoughts on the subject to allow the freedom to the States to make whatever the citizens choose to make, if they are willing to deal with the economic consequences.
And the fact if Cruz were elected President no matter how much he is against it, he would have nothing to do with it either as President!
I think you had better study up on your laws of logic.