Newt Gingrich Says Married Gay Couples Are Only \u201cFriends\u201d At GOP Debate<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt the GOP debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich called married gay couples \u201cfriends,\u201d claiming there is \u201csecular bigotry\u201d against the Catholic Church.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Mr. Gingrich: I realize your own sense of what marriage consists of may be different than most, and it's nice that you attribute a bit more to gay relationships than just depraved lust, but dismissing married gay couples as just "friends" is demeaning and arrogant … just what we've come to expect from you. … Continue reading “The GOP candidates and Gay Marriage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,25,718],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25770,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/eek-paganism-is-rising-hide-the-children-ma.html","url_meta":{"origin":25209,"position":0},"title":"Eek! 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