Sen. Elizabeth Warren joked that people of faith who believed marriage was between one man and one woman might not be able to find one person to marry them.
Morgan Cox, the chair of the Human Rights Campaign, asked Warren during a CNN town hall Thursday on gay issues what she would tell an “old-fashioned” supporter who told her “my faith teaches me that marriage is between one man and one woman.”
“Then just marry one woman,” the Massachusetts Democrat said her response would be, before joking, “Assuming you can find one.” The line by Warren received raucous applause from the crowd. She followed up by saying she was “shocked” how people of faith treated gay people when growing up.
“And I know that back in Oklahoma in those days, there weren’t many people who were out,” she said. “And the hatefulness, frankly, always really shocked me, especially for people of faith, because I think the whole foundation is the worth of every single human being.”
The presidential contender also said she does not “remember” a time she did not support gay marriage despite being a Republican for most of her life.
Warren, 70, has been gaining steam in the Democratic presidential primary since a slow start. She is now the front-runner in the race, according to several recent polls.
