Gingrich Endorses Gay Marriage

He's willing to draw a distinction between state-sanctioned marriages and church marriages

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he can accept the "reality" of marriage between same-sex couples as a "legal document issued by the state" — as strong a sign as any that the landscape for marriage equality has changed dramatically in the past year.

"The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to … accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states -- and it will be more after 2014 -- gay relationships will be legal, period," Gingrich told The Huffington Post in a story published on Thursday.

Gingrich "continued to profess a belief that marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman," Sam Stein and Jon Ward report, but "suggested that the party (and he himself) could accept a distinction between a 'marriage in a church from a legal document issued by the state' -- the latter being acceptable."

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Not that I disagree with his conclusion but one has to wonder if he would have made it had the direction of national opinion been different.

Gingrich is a fat opportunist.... nothing more!

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Then how is his conclusion any different from most everyone else's? Generally, unless they're religious, people get their moral direction from cultural trends.