Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain
have been attacked for not signing an anti-gay marriage pledge.
Maggie Gallagher of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM) blasted the three GOP candidates for
president in a recent op-ed published in Real
Clear Politics.
NOM had asked all presidential
candidates to promise to oppose gay marriage earlier this year.
Gallagher also refuted critics who have
suggested that Mitt Romney has reversed course on the issue.
(Related: Mitt
Romney says he backs gay rights, not gay marriage.)
“Romney's new mailer in Iowa says he
opposes same-sex marriage and supports a federal marriage amendment,”
Gallagher wrote. “This is not a flip-flop; it's the truth. On gay
marriage he's been a rock. Meanwhile, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and
Herman Cain have all refused to sign a simple National Organization
for Marriage pledge promising to fight for a federal marriage
amendment, vigorously defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act and
appoint Supreme Court justices who will not invent a right to gay
marriage in our Constitution.”
(Related: Ron
Paul, Gary Johnson refuse to bash gay marriage.)
“And President Obama? He went before
the Rev. Rick Warren in 2008 and told voters out loud that he opposed
same-sex marriage. Then as president, Obama turned around and
refused to defend against court attacks DOMA, which defines marriage
as one man and one woman. His own defenders say Obama's not a
flip-flopper – he was just lying to the American people to get
elected. In other words, unlike Obama, when it comes to marriage,
Mitt Romney (like [Rick] Santorum and [Michele] Bachmann) has
demonstrated he's a candidate whose word can be trusted, both
politically and personally.”