Graham: GOP Should Take Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment Out of Platform

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

Graham: GOP Should Take Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendment Out of Platform

MEET THE PRESS
JUN 28 2015, 10:29 AM ET

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press" that if the Republican party doesn't change its official position on same-sex marriage it will "hurt" the GOP in 2016. In 2012, the Republican platform read, "We reaffirm our support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman."

Echoing former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Graham argued that Republicans should abandon that official 2012 position. Graham continued, "What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same sex marriage as part of their faith. So no I would not engage in the Constitutional amendment process as a party going into 2016. Accept the Court's ruling. Fight for the religious liberties of every American."

- Andrew Stoughton

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/graham-gop-should-take-gay-marriage-constitutional-amendment-out-platform-n383296

[Betty Karlson]

1. That's the most moderate reaction to come from the GOP so far.

I suppose Mr. Graham is just in this race to drag the party back to moderate positions, because with statements like these, he is not going to win the nomination. Too many moderates have already abandoned the GOP at this point.