Jeb Bush might be cool with attending a gay wedding, but he’s not loving the idea of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
In an interview with CBN News chief political correspondent David Brody Saturday, Bush took a decidedly tough stance on the gay marriage issue, insisting that “traditional marriage is a sacrament” of which conservatives need to be “stalwart supporters.”
“Irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling — because they’re going to decide whatever they decide and I don’t know what they’re going to do — we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage,” Bush told “The Brody File” during a conversation in Dubuque, Iowa, over the weekend.
“If we want to create a ‘right to rise’ society where people — particularly children born in poverty — if we want to have them have a chance, which should be a core American value, we have to restore committed, loving family life with a mom and a dad loving their children with their heart and soul,” the likely GOP presidential candidate added, referencing the name of his political action committee.
When pressed on the Supreme Court’s role in the matter, Bush insisted that he does not believe there should exist a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
“But I’m not a lawyer and clearly this has been accelerated at a warp pace,” the former Florida governor added. “What’s interesting is that, four years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the same view that I just expressed to you. Thousands of years of culture and history is just being changed at warp speed.”
Last month, when asked whether or not he would attend a gay wedding between two individuals about whom he cared, Bush responded that “of course” he would go.
The Supreme Court justices are set to make their decision on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage next month.
