Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said Wednesday
he would oppose a constitutional amendment
allowing states to ban same-sex
marriage after the Supreme legalized it nationwide, even though he disagrees
with the landmark 5-4 decision.
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| Marco Rubio |
“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.
Also when in Las Vegas he offered no policy specifics
whatsoever in a speech to Freedom Fest at Planet Hollywood filled with rhetoric
and skipped off the stage without conducting a previously-agreed-to
question-and-answer sessions with the audience.
The speech, which lasted just about 20 minutes, was
scheduled previously to go for 30 minutes and include 10 minutes of Q&A.
Rubio, after finishing his remarks, ducked off the back corner of the stage
without taking questions from the audience—which all week leading up to this
moment has been critical of him.
Until now-Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, the affable
real estate magnate and reality television mogul, announced he was coming to
Freedom Fest—Trump is speaking on today and
for weeks Rubio was the keynote speaker of this conference. After Rubio
attacked Trump over Trump’s accurate comments on immigration, Trump took the
keynote status away from Rubio—announcing he’s going to be speaking on Saturday
to close out the event. Trump, of course, is performing significantly better
than Rubio or Rubio’s mentor former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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