Marco Rubio, the candidate of the future, sounded a distinctly 20th Century theme Sunday, reports Ryan J. Reilly.
The Florida senator cited Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" during an interview with Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press" and said he disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision that struck down state bans on same-sex marriage. Rubio said that "no one should ever be compelled to sin by law" and that a minister should not be compelled to marry a same-sex couple, which is not something that has happened.
"I don't believe any case law is settled law. Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed," Rubio said.
Remember, Rubio's supposed to be the fresh, young establishment GOP pick—the Barack Obama of the Republican Party. What a crock. Obama actually sounded like a candidate of the future on the trail in 2008 and he evolved with the times in 2012. Rubio has simply put a youthful face on antiquated ideas that the GOP's evangelical base is still clinging to like a life raft. In other words, he's dressed up some old-school Republican pandering.
This is a guy who will say or do just about anything to please the GOP base, including taking a knife to his own immigration bill in 2013. That was the best shot at actually achieving immigration reform in nearly a decade.
Rubio insists:
"It's not about discrimination. It is about the definition of a very specific, traditional, and age-old institution..."
… that robs law-abiding taxpaying Americans of some 1,100 rights and benefits because they happen to be in a same-sex relationship. Pretty hard to see how that's "not about discrimination."