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Haley Barbour on ?gay rights? and same-sex ?marriage?

By Alliance Alert

Politico: "On a different issue, Barbour signaled how he might respond to questions about gay rights when he was asked about former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman?s decision to disclose that he is gay. The governor recalled that he had worked alongside gays in his years in GOP politics ? 'no big deal to me,' he said. But he noted that he, and an overwhelming majority of voters in his state, had voted to affirm traditional marriage. 'Those two things are compatible with each other,' he said. More broadly, Barbour suggested that fiscal issues were so resonant at the moment that there was little need to focus on cultural issues."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).