Posted on 05/01/2016 6:55:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Friday that gay people are "probably" born that way, conceding that view during a testy exchange with a gay voter at a California event.
Asked by Kelly Bryan, a gay 62-year-old man, during an event at the Commonwealth Club of California whether people are "born gay," Kasich first attempted to avoid answering the question.
"I'm not gonna get into all the analysis of this or that," Kasich said at the San Francisco town hall. "I'm not gonna do that."
But the questioner pressed again: "It's not analysis. Are people born gay?"
Kasich replied, "You know, sir, probably."
"I mean, I don't -- I don't know how it all works, OK?" he added. "I mean, look. Are they? You know, probability they are."
Asked whether the LGBT community deserved "free, regular rights like everybody else," Kasich said: "Well, you have free regular rights, we're not denying you any rights, I'm not in Ohio. I'm not out to discriminate against you. I think you ought to have as good a life as anybody else."
The Ohio governor also noted that he had recently attended a same-sex marriage ceremony.
"I don't agree with gay marriage," he said. "But I'm not -- I went to a gay wedding. OK? I mean, that's what I've done."
Earlier, Kasich had said, "A buddy of mine just got, you know, went, got married. My wife and I went to the wedding. It was great. It was fine. But I'm not going to go for some constitutional amendment."
When asked about Mississippi's and Kentucky's legislation allowing businesses to deny services to same-sex couples, Kasich suggested that he did not agree with them and argued that he has the "right to define the Republican Party too."
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“Dammit Jim, I’m a governor not a doctor!”
Some of them are. It’s called “defective genetics”. Some of them pick up the lifestyle. That’s called “defective judgement”.
Plus some of them use mind tricks on young people to recruit them into the life.
I agree with you...some of them are.
“Ask your psychiatrist!”
Hey John!
The MAJORITY of homosexuals were MOLESTED AS CHILDREN.
Yes, I have links and data.
That would be a “birth defect”. Can’t they be cured?
Agree
People are born with cleft palates too, but we don’t let them go through life like that.
Largely unanswered in most cases.
And prisons are a prime example of defective judgements on many levels.
No.
Lives are build on an unending series of decisions, large and small.
“mind tricks on young people “
Yeah like, rape a child, then tell him (over and over again). Solly Charrie, you lady boy now, too bad, so sad.
Politics makes the idiot. That’s for sure.
Well Kasich has certainly proved that some people are born stupid...
Ever notice how many homosexuals...in private...admit that their conversion to homosexuality was a non-consenual experience with a much older man?
Whereas, people who are normal, know all about their sexual attraction to the opposite sex, even in the total absence of any physical contact or intimate encounters?
(You know, like creepy guys posting from their Mom's basement. No doubt at all they like women, even without an older woman initiating them into heterosexuality.)
+1
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