Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Saturday that he wouldn’t have voted for the anti-LGBT bill that was passed in North Carolina at the end of March.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill that prevented local governments from passing anti-discrimination measures protecting transgender and gay individuals.
Kasich said that issues become more “polarized” when they become into law during an interview for CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“We are not having this issue in our state about this whole religious liberty,” Kasich said. “I believe that religious institutions ought to be protected and be able to be in a position of where they can, you know, live out their deeply-held religious purposes. But when you get beyond that, it begins to be a tricky issue. Tricky’s not the right word. But it can become a contentious issue.”
The full CBS interview with air on Sunday.
“I did, however, sign multiple bills making it incredibly difficult for a woman to have an abortion in Ohio if she wants, even though it’s her constitutional right.”
Fuck you and your “moderate Republican” shtick.
… spoken like a true mealy-mouthed, clammy-handed, liquid-spined, political shill… they broke the mold when they made this one…
Sorry Gov.
Nobody really cares.
Maybe your family.
But probably not.
jw1
Awww, how cute! Kasich is pretending to be that virtually extinct species known as “a moderate Republican.”
“Tricky’s not the right word. But it can become a contentious issue.”
Kasich got that half right which is better than one would expect from a GOP candidate. It is definitely a contentious issue when you have to contend with the religious fundamentalists who won’t be satisfied until they can replace our representative republic with an Evangelical theocracy. But Kasich would see that there is nothing tricky about it if he would take the time to read the first clause of the First Amendment.