Noone expected Mitt Romney to join President Obama in supporting same sex marriage...he's too afraid of having his nomination stripped from him in Tampa to do that.
Well, it turns out he's so afraid of his base he's walking back his semi-respectable statement condoning gay adoptions just two days after saying he thought it was 'perfectly okay'...
Link to NationalJournal article.
He said on Thursday: “And if two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child — in my state, individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something that people have a right to do. But to call that 'marriage' is something that, in my view, is a departure from the real meaning of that word.”
Granted, those aren't exactly strong words of support, but at least he's not saying he doesn't agree with it. But give ole Etch A Sketch 24 hours of violent shaking by assholes like Tony Perkins, and what do you get?
On Friday,he was asked, in an interview with CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., how his opposition to gay marriage “squared” with his support for gay adoptions. Romney told anchor Paul Cameron, “Well, actually I think all states but one allow gay adoption, so that’s a position which has been decided by most of the state legislatures, including the one in my state some time ago. So I simply acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal in all states but one.”
The strongest thing in that statement is the bolding I did to the text.
Mitt Romney isn't just a coward. He's a fucking coward.