• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox
  • Carole Baskin’s Missing Husband’s Signature On Will Declared A Forgery By Experts As ‘Tiger King’ Star Claims Ex Was Found Alive In Costa Rica: Source
  • World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross
  • Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and knee replacement after years of stunts

RNC Chair Reince Priebus Says Gay Marriage Not a Civil Rights Issue: VIDEO

Andy Towle May 14, 2012

Priebus

RNC Chair Reince Priebus told David Gregory on Meet the Press yesterday how he felt Obama's gay marriage endorsement would affect the election:

I’m not sure if it’s going to be a defining issue, but clearly for people in America – where gay marriage is their number one issue, we clearly have two candidates with two different views. On one hand, you’ve got Barack Obama who is now, I guess, going to promote and perhaps crusade for this issue. And you have Mitt Romney who’s been consistent and I think in line with most Americans – which is that marriage ought to be defined between one man and one woman. So, for those people that this is their issue, they have a clear choice.

Asked if he believes it's a civil rights issue:

“I don’t think it’s a matter of civil rights. I think it’s just a matter of whether or not we’re going to adhere to something that’s been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years. I mean, marriage has to have a definition. And we just happen to believe it’s between a man and a woman,” Priebus said NBC’s "Meet The Press."

“I think there’s a big difference between people that have been murdered and everything that has come with Jim Crow than marriage between a man and a man and a woman and a woman,” he said.

Priebus also said he'd like to see a federal marriage amendment:

“People in this country, no matter straight or gay, deserve dignity and respect. However, that doesn’t mean it carries on to marriage."

Watch the interview, AFTER THE JUMP…

video
play-rounded-fill
Link
typorama 6 copy

Topics: News More Posts About: 2012 election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, gay marriage, News, Reince Priebus, Reince Priebus

Related Posts
  • Explainer-Biden vs. Trump: What is the difference between the two classified records cases?
  • These are the ‘dumbest’ and ‘silliest’ things that ‘triggered’ far-right culture warriors in 2022: podcast
  • Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan accept award for stance against ‘structural racism in Royal Family’
  • World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross

    World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross

    Published by AFP A health worker prepares a Covid booster jab for an airport worker in Bali Geneva (AFP) – All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying …Read More »
  • Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and knee replacement after years of stunts

    Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and knee replacement after years of stunts

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and a partial knee replacement after spending years getting “banged up” while doing his own stunts. ‘The Mummy’ star, 54, has revealed he suffered numerous injuries …Read More »
  • New Details: Brandi Glanville Booted From ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’ After ‘Unwanted Kisses’ With Caroline Manzo

    New Details: Brandi Glanville Booted From ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’ After ‘Unwanted Kisses’ With Caroline Manzo

    Published by OK Magazine mega New details have emerged as to what went down between Brandi Glanville and Caroline Manzo in Morocco. Both of the former Bravo stars stopped filming for Season 4 of Real Housewives: …Read More »
  • Sixth Memphis police officer dismissed in Tyre Nichols case, local media reports

    Sixth Memphis police officer dismissed in Tyre Nichols case, local media reports

    Published by Reuters (Reuters) – A sixth Memphis police officer has been dismissed from the force for his involvement in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, local media reported on Monday, days after video footage of …Read More »
Previous Post: « Chris Meloni is the Vampire Authority in Epic New ‘True Blood’ Trailer: VIDEO
Next Post: New JJ Abrams Show ‘Revolution’ Depicts World Plunged into Darkness: VIDEO »

Primary Sidebar

Adjacent News

  • Secrets about Catholic priest’s 1966 murder unearthed by reporters in Buffalo

    Secrets about Catholic priest’s 1966 murder unearthed by reporters in Buffalo

  • Booker says he’ll keep trying to pass weed legislation even with House Republicans in charge

    Booker says he’ll keep trying to pass weed legislation even with House Republicans in charge

  • Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition blacklisting sparks outcry

    Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition blacklisting sparks outcry

Good Trash: Going to Read It Somewhere, Y'know

  • Jane Fonda ‘worried’ about Barbarella remake

    Jane Fonda ‘worried’ about Barbarella remake

  • Photographer insists Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photo isn’t fake

    Photographer insists Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photo isn’t fake

  • John Easterling pays tribute to ‘magic’ late wife Dame Olivia Newton-John

    John Easterling pays tribute to ‘magic’ late wife Dame Olivia Newton-John

RSS Partner Links

  • Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo Welcome Third Child
  • Kanye West Is The Subject Of A Battery Investigation After Snatching A Photog’s Phone, And Kim Kardashian Scolded A Pap Who Asked Her About It In Front Of Her Kids
  • Madonna’s Biopic Reportedly Cost Universal Pictures More Than $10 Million Before They Shelved It
  • Stefanik Can't Name One Program She'd Cut Except 'Woke Agenda'
  • OMG, have you heard? Troye Sivan used to post sexy photos on Instagram
  • Austin Butler & Baz Luhrmann Attend 'Elvis' Screening in Hollywood
  • Fleshback: James Franciscus — The Naked Ape

Most Recent

  • Carole Baskin’s Missing Husband’s Signature On Will Declared A Forgery By Experts As ‘Tiger King’ Star Claims Ex Was Found Alive In Costa Rica: Source

    Carole Baskin’s Missing Husband’s Signature On Will Declared A Forgery By Experts As ‘Tiger King’ Star Claims Ex Was Found Alive In Costa Rica: Source

  • World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross

    World ‘dangerously unprepared’ for next crisis: Red Cross

  • Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and knee replacement after years of stunts

    Brendan Fraser needed spinal surgery and knee replacement after years of stunts

  • New Details: Brandi Glanville Booted From ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’ After ‘Unwanted Kisses’ With Caroline Manzo

    New Details: Brandi Glanville Booted From ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’ After ‘Unwanted Kisses’ With Caroline Manzo

  • Sixth Memphis police officer dismissed in Tyre Nichols case, local media reports

    Sixth Memphis police officer dismissed in Tyre Nichols case, local media reports

  • Alan Cumming admits returning CBE was a ‘complicated’ decision

    Alan Cumming admits returning CBE was a ‘complicated’ decision

  • LGBTQ people face being ‘erased’ in Michigan schools thanks to right-wing group’s legal loophole

    LGBTQ people face being ‘erased’ in Michigan schools thanks to right-wing group’s legal loophole

  • Modern Family’s Julie Bowen Crushing On Harry Styles; Reveals She Was Once In Love With A Gay Woman, “but she didn’t love me back”

    Modern Family’s Julie Bowen Crushing On Harry Styles; Reveals She Was Once In Love With A Gay Woman, “but she didn’t love me back”

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd

Footer

Copyright © 2023 · Log in

×