Republican presidential candidate Mitt "Multiple Choice" Romney was questioned about his opposition to marriage equality "so many times" at a New Hampshire town hall meeting that "he stopped responding to the questions altogether.," reports ABC News.
The first question came from a young woman in the audience who asked, "Why is it that you feel that marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman is lesser than a marriage between a man and a woman?"
"I think the ideal setting to raise a child for a society like ours is where there is a man and a woman in the marriage,” Romney responded. "So I think as a society we are wise to encourage marriage between a man and a woman for the purpose of raising our kids."
A few questions later another young woman followed up on his answer and asked why being raised by two women like she was — her grandmother and her mother raised her — was any different from being raised by a man and a woman. [...]
"In my view a society recognizes that the ideal setting for raising a child is when you have the benefit of two people working together and when one is male and one is female," Romney said. "That’s why as a society we say we’re going to call marriage what it has been called for 6,000 years or longer — a relationship between one man and one woman."
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Why not support civil unions? "What I would support is letting people who are of the same gender form, if you will, partnership agreements," he replied. "If they want to have a partnership with someone else and have, as a result of that, such things as hospital visitation rights and similar benefits of that nature."
The former Massachusetts governor's answer is not much of an improvement over his now-infamous 2007 campaign speech when he said that even a dead parent was better than a gay one. Oh and a memo to the Romney campaign: Same-sex partner hospital visitation rights are now mandated by federal law.
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Why do all these Republicans seem to suffer from a case of the stupid? Jeez, man! Don't they realize that they always come off as assholes?
Posted by: Account Deleted | 11 October 2011 at 13:42
"That’s why as a society we say we’re going to call marriage what it has been called for 6,000 years or longer — a relationship between one man and one woman."
Why didn't someone inform him that for most of recorded history, marriage has been between a man and his property? Women were barely considered human and had few rights. Plus, polygyny (one man, many women) was the norm across much of the world until about 300 years ago.
Posted by: read me | 11 October 2011 at 19:08
It is so sickening that he actually even believes what comes out of that dumb mouth of his. He is afraid to make an uproar cause his fellow tea party twits will set him on fire. What a coward!!
Posted by: Della Mae | 12 October 2011 at 06:29