Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp has
criticized President Barack Obama for supporting gay rights.
Speaking with Tony Perkins, president
of the Christian conservative Family Research Council, before the
president's Tuesday night State of the Union address, Huelskamp said
Obama wants to “destroy the family and replace it with his view of
a radical new social agenda” and criticized GOP leaders for trying
to avoid discussion of social issues, claiming 70 percent of
Americans oppose gay marriage.
“This president has a radical social
agenda and the media will probably give him a pass when instead of
talking about the fact that mom and dad don't have a job we're going
to talk about how to destroy the family and replace it with his view
of a radical new social agenda,” Huelskamp
said.
“The response from the general
leadership is: gosh, we can't talk about social issues. But the
president can? Someone has to stand up and defend the seventy
percent position that most Americans support traditional marriage,
most Americans understand the value of family, they understand it's
under attack and they understand that, they see it, they believe it.
… But whether it's Obamacare, whether it's these radical DoD
[Department of Defense] proposals coming out of the White House or
changing all the employment rules to specifically and selectively
reward homosexual behavior, those are really radical ideas and most
Americans don't accept them.”