Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is
being vetted as a possible Mitt Romney vice presidential choice,
sounds as if he could be open to gay marriage.
On Tuesday, Romney confirmed that Rubio
is under consideration to be his running mate.
“Marco Rubio is being thoroughly
vetted as part of our process,” the GOP presidential nominee told
reporters.
In a wide-ranging interview with
Christianity
Today, Rubio, 41, a Catholic who as a child was baptized in
the Mormon church and as an adult has experienced an evangelical
church with his family, was asked his position on gay marriage. And
while Rubio declared that he's personally opposed, he also added that
it's about “what society should tolerate,” leaving a bit of
wiggle room.
“In terms of the Bible's
interpretation of marriage, what our faith teaches is pretty
straightforward.
There's not much debate about that.
The debate is about what society should tolerate, and what society
should allow our laws to be. I believe marriage is a unique and
specific institution that is the result of thousands of years of
wisdom, which concluded that the ideal – not the only way but
certainly the ideal – situation to raise children to become
productive and healthy humans is in a home with a father and mother
married to each other. Does that mean people who are not in that
circumstance cannot be successful? Of course not.”
“It's not a discriminatory thing,”
he added. “I'm not angry at anyone because of it, but I also have
to be honest about what I believe marriage should be in our laws.”