Tim Pawlenty on Same-Sex Marriage vs Traditional Marriage ...

Republican candidate for President Tim Pawlenty sat down with CNN?s Candy Crowley to discuss a number of issues Sunday ? including the comeback of the mullet ? but I?m certain none will have the legs of their conversation on the issue of same-sex marriage. ?The MSM loves to paint the Right as the unsympathetic mass that opposes happiness for all in the name of preserving the institution of man and woman as between a man and a woman. ?I?ve stated very clearly that I believe the matter to be a state issue; or a personal one. ?Accordingly, while I share some of Pawlenty?s opinions on the matter, I believe it to be an issue of zero import in a presidential election as a central issue.

That said, the Left and the MSM will insist on making it one, so here you go. ?Pawlenty?s position on same-sex marriage.

I grabbed a few of the high-points from the interview and have transcribed them below. ?Forgive me for not posting Candy?s questions. ?If you need them for context, watch the video below?

?I think we have a longstanding practice ? it?s social, it?s legal, it?s cultural? that says a man and a woman are joined together for obvious reasons: in relationship, in marriage, in procreation; in raising children,?in their function in society. ?And I?m not at the point, nor will I ever be at the point, where I?m going to say ? you know what ? that?s not really special or any different than any other domestic relationships we can imagine or assemble. ?I don?t buy that at all.?

?I think when society devalues traditional marriage by saying all other domestic relationships are the same as traditional marriage you then?dilute?and devalue traditional marriage.?

?It?s certainly a social and cultural, and moral issue, but it also has practical effects. ?I think obviously a man and a woman together are the traditional family. ?That?s how children are born and raised ? traditionally.?

?There are many examples of single parents and others who have heroically and lovingly raised children? I?m not saying that there can?t be single parents??I?m just saying that we want to maintain traditional marriage; elevate it in the eyes of the law; and in our society it is not the same as domestic relationships.?

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