Bobby Jindal: Obama only backed gay marriage for popularity
Adamantly anti-gay Republican Presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal has lashed out at President Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying they only backed same-sex marriage because of opinion polls.
The Louisiana Governor has in the past said his party doesn’t need the support of gay people, and has continually tried to force through“religious freedom” laws in his state which would allow anti-gay discrimination.
Governor JIndal, who has struggled with his state’s $1.6 billion deficit, announced his bid to become the Republican Presidential nominee last week.
Speaking since the US Supreme Court ruled that all couples in the US have a consititonal right to marriage, Jindal said: “Both the President and Hillary evolved their views because of opinion polls. They can read opinion polls just like the Supreme Court.”
Bragging about his opposition to same-sex marriage, he told NBC News: “My view of marriage is based on my Christian faith. No early court’s decision is going to change that. I think marriage is between a man and a woman.”
“I think they’re all created equal in god’s eyes. And I think we need to respect and love those we disagree with. I think we can have religious liberty without discrimination. My views on marriage aren’t evolving with the polls. I can read polls just like the President can. It’s based on my faith. I think it should remain between a man and a woman,” he continued.
Speaking of his own popularity in his home state of Louisiana, Jindal said: “If I were afraid of polls, I never would have been elected in two landslide elections, winning the highest percentage in our state’s last election for governor.”
Just hours after a bill to protect “religious freedom” failed in Louisiana last month, Governor Bobby Jindal said he would force through a measure to protect it using an Executive Order.
Governor Jindal has previously defended anti-gay Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who has equated homosexuality with bestiality and claimed that AIDS is “God’s punishment” for homosexuality.
The Governor claimed the Robertsons were “great citizens” of Louisiana, and went on to attack the “politically correct crowd” for criticising the comments by Robertson.
The Human Rights Campaign earlier this year marked an op-ed from Governor Jindal – and he definitely didn’t pass with flying colours.
An attempted put-down of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last year backfired, when Governor Jindal used the wrong “your” in a tweet.
