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News Round-Up: September 25, 2015

Out bobsledder Simon Dunn

Some news stories you may have missed:

• Out bobsledder hunk Simon Dunn pens an essay about the time the 6’1′ 216 pound athlete was gay-bashed to the point of being hospitalized. Bu you know the saying – the best revenge is good living 🙂

• In the wake of Gov. Scott Walker dropping out of the GOP race for prez, guess who picked up the lion’s share of his support (not that there was a whole lot to begin with)?

• A young gay man, blamed by his mother for “spreading gayness” to his younger brother, steps up to adopt his bro rather than see him live in a home of hate.

• Conservative pundit Steve Deace calls Sen. Lindsey Graham “transgendered.”

• Did you hear the one where Donald Trump criticized Sen. Marco Rubio and got booed for it? It was a new experience for The Donald.

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Carly Fiorina Surges In Polls After Strong Debate Performance

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Two new polls show Carly Fiorina surging after a strong debate performance on Wednesday night.

According to a new Voter Gravity poll of 2,839 New Hampshire Republican Primary voters, they put Fiorina in the number one spot with 22%. Donald Trump trails her at 18%, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson landing at third with 10%.

Additionally, a new CNN/ORC poll shows Trump has fallen 8 points in that national poll while Fiorina jumped an amazing 12 points.

Those numbers put Trump at 24%, Fiorina at 15% and Carson at 14%.

Sen. Marco Rubio saw a bounce from his showing at the debate jumping 8 points from 3% to 11%.

Thirty one percent of those polled said Trump was the loser of the debate, 52% said Fiorina was the victor.

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Sen. Marco Rubio: I Do Not Support A Constitutional Amendment Banning Marriage Equality

Sen. Marco Rubio, currently in the hunt for the 2016 GOP nomination for president, put some daylight between himself and other Republican hopefuls by saying he does NOT support amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriages after the historic 5-4 SCOTUS decision.

“I don’t support a constitutional amendment. I don’t believe the federal government should be in the marriage regulation business,” the Florida senator told reporters after a speech the Cedar Rapids Country Club in Iowa.

“We can continue to disagree with it. Perhaps a future court will change that decision, in much the same way as it’s changed other decisions in the past. But my opinion is unchanged, that marriage should continue to be defined as one man and one woman. The decision is what it is, and that’s what we’ll live under,” he said.

The chances of a constitutional amendment being passed by Congress and two-thirds of states is practically zero with support for marriage equality at or over 60% in the U.S.

And by the way, the haters are really mad at Rubio now.  From anti-gay hate group leader Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association:

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Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Rand, Ted and Marco Should Go Be Governors Before Running For Prez

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has advice for Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio: Go run for governor before you run for president.

He shared that thought with the Weekly Standard in an interview last week:

“I’ve had more than one individual say, ‘You know what, if you want to be the president of the United States, you ought to go back to your home state and be the governor and get that executive experience before you go lead this country,'” said Perry.

The former governor calls the senators “Marco, Ted, and Rand,” and made sure to say he has “great respect” for the trio. “They are smart as a tree full of owls,” said Perry, “These guys are very, very capable United States senators.”

Perry ran a short, unsuccessful bid for the GOP nomination for president in 2012.

He has signaled he will probably announce a second presidential bid on June 4 near Dallas.

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Sen. Marco Rubio: The Iraq War Was Not A Mistake

Sen. Marco Rubio, speaking to Chris Wallace of Fox News, gets into a bit of a word salad here trying to answer the question “Knowing what we know now, would you have invaded Iraq?”

Clearly Rubio doesn’t want to criticize the decision made a decade ago, but he won’t come out and say “no – knowing what we know today I would not have gone to war with Iraq.”

He hedges on “the world is better off without Hussein” and “we may have done things differently” but never actually says he would have chosen differently. A lot of parsing going on here so as to not inflame the hawks.

Oh, and he seems to say that he thought Manny Pacquiao was going to win his recent boxing match. That says something in itself about his observations of the world.

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Jeb Bush And Marco Rubio Top Latest GOP Presidential Poll

Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio top the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll for 2-16 Republican presidential nomination.

Asked which Republican hopeful would be their first choice to win the party’s primary, 23 percent of GOP primary voters chose Bush. An additional 14 percent picked him as a second choice.

Eighteen percent of GOP primary voters said that they favored Rubio most, while another 23 percent selected the Florida senator as their second choice for the Republican nod.

It’s worth noting that Rubio is a longtime friend and protege of Bush. With numbers like these, it’s easy to see Rubio in the veep spot and becoming a strong national ticket, especially when it comes to the Latino vote.

The snag comes in the fact that the Constitution would not allow Florida (where both men hail from) to “elect” both to prez and veep.

Electoral College voters, called electors, could not cast both of their votes for two people from their home state. In plainspeak, an Electoral College member from Maryland couldn’t cast his two votes for candidates from Maryland. Electors from any other state could still vote for two Maryland representatives, just not the electors from Maryland.

That being said, it does set up Rubio as a very strong veep pick for any of the other contenders who would look to beef up Latino voters.

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Sen. Marco Rubio: “There Is No Constitutional Right To Same-Sex Marriage”

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, currently running for the 2016 GOP nomination for president, to David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network this weekend:

“There is no federal constitutional right to same sex-marriage. It doesn’t exist.

“There is no federal constitutional right to same sex-marriage. There isn’t such a right.

“You would have to really have a ridiculous and absurd reading of the U.S. constitution to reach the conclusion that people have a right to marry someone of the same sex. There is no such constitutional right.

“Can a state decide to change their laws? Yes, but only through the political process, not through the court system and that’s what is happening now. The advocates of same-sex marriage refuse to go to the legislatures because they can’t win that debate, they don’t want to have a debate in society. They want courts to impose it on people and they are not even satisfied with that.

“They have now gone further. They want to stigmatize, they want to ostracize anyone who disagrees with them as haters.

“It’s very simple. This is not a policy against anyone. I believe, as do a significant percentage of Americans, that the institution of marriage, an institution that existed before government, that has existed before laws, that institution should remain in our laws recognized as the union of one man and one woman.”

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Marco Rubio: Being Gay Is Not A Choice

Newly minted 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio said that even though he didn’t think being gay was a choice, he didn’t believe courts should be deciding the issue of same-sex marriage.

“I also don’t believe that your sexual preferences are a choice for the vast and enormous majority of people,” he said. “In fact, the bottom line is I believe sexual preference is something that people are born with.”

Last week, Rubio also said that he would attend a gay wedding of a loved one, even if he disagreed with the “choice” that loved one had made.

“I’m not going to hurt them simply because I disagree with a choice they’ve made or because I disagree with a decision they’ve made, or whatever it may be,” Rubio said. “Ultimately, if someone that you care for and is part of your family has decided to move in one direction or another or feels that way because of who they love, you respect that because you love them.”

In the past, Rubio has distinguished between opposing same-sex marriage and being anti-gay.

“Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay. It is pro-traditional marriage,” Rubio said last year.

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Marco Rubio: I Would Attend A Gay Wedding

Speaking on Jorge Ramos’ Fusion show, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says he would attend a gay wedding of someone he loved, but goes on to call being gay “a choice.”

Via Mediaite:

“If someone in your family or your office that happens to be gay and they invite you to their wedding, would you go?” Ramos asked the senator.

“If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events,” Rubio said. He compared it to attending “second marriages,” which are not strictly allowed the Catholic faith.

“If it’s somebody in my life that I care for, of course I would,” Rubio reiterated on the question of attending gay weddings. “I’m not going to hurt them simply because I disagree with a choice they’ve made or because I disagree with a decision they’ve made, or whatever it may be.”

“Ultimately, if someone that you care for and is part of your family has decided to move in one direction or another or feels that way because of who they love, you respect that because you love them,” he concluded. Again, he compared the union of a same-sex couple to the divorce of a straight one. “If someone gets divorced, I’m not going to stop loving them,” he said.