Jeb Bush told Fox News Tuesday that he hoped the Supreme Court would rule against legalizing same-sex marriage this month. Sabrina Siddiqui has
the details:
"I believe in traditional marriage. I hope the supreme court rules that way," Bush said, while adding that Americans should not be discriminated against based on their sexual orientation.
Um, yeah—what we have here is a failure to communicate. Perhaps someone should let Jeb know that hoping the Supreme Court rules against the freedom to marry
is discriminatory. But that explains a lot about what happened next:
An audience member later asked Bush about so-called “religious freedom” laws, which sparked controversy in Indiana and Arkansas earlier this year and saw the former governor then struggling to stake out a clear position.
“It got ugly because the world is ugly today. It’s really hard to have a deeper conversation in the public square these days,” Bush said of the national outcry after Indiana passed a law that opponents said effectively allowed businesses to refuse services to LGBT individuals. “I think we can protect religious freedom and not create a society that is intolerant.”
Allow me to translate: to Jeb, it's an "ugly" world because
62 percent of Americans no longer think it's tolerant to deny LGBT citizens basic civil liberties like the freedom to marry and equal access to public accommodations.
He is right about one thing though: it's really hard to have a deeper conversation with people who support discrimination.