Ryan T. Anderson of the conservative
Heritage Foundation claims that several of his gay friends oppose
marriage equality.
“There are several people, who I know
personally, who themselves are gay, who don't think there's anything
wrong with gay relationships, but who are not in favor of gay
marriage. They say, 'Whatever a gay relationship is, it's not a
marriage,” Anderson
told an audience at Union University, the private evangelical
Christian liberal arts university located in Tennessee. (The video
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Anderson, the author of What is
Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, challenged
Piers Morgan and Suze Orman on the issue of marriage equality during
a televised townhall last March.
In a profile which appeared in The
Washington Post's On Faith section, Anderson denied the
inevitability of marriage equality.
“People called
Marxism, socialism, the Equal Rights Amendment, now abortion rights
inevitable,” he
said. “I don't think anything in life is inevitable.”