Gingrich gay marriage
"The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states — and it will be more after 2014 — gay relationships will be legal, period," he told The Huffington Post.
Noting that his half-sister works at Human Rights Campaign and he has gay friends who married in Iowa, Mr. Gingrich said that while he still believes that marriage is between a man and a woman, he and the Republican Party would be wise to accept a distinction between "a marriage in a church" and "a legal document issued by the state."
"I didn't think that was inevitable 10 or 15 years ago, when we passed the Defense of Marriage Act," said Mr. Gingrich, adding that it was unexpected to see "anything like as big a wave of change as we are now seeing."
Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry said Mr. Gingrich's "new position shows that when conservatives truly examine their core values — family, individual freedom and limited government — we see that the freedom to marry is fundamentally in line with those beliefs."
Mr. Gingrich's evolution "draws a sharp contrast with the few extremists continuing to fight against equality," said Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin.
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