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Possible presidential candidate
Paul Ryan
Political offices:
Current U.S. Representative
(1999-Present)
Date he announced he would not run:
January 12, 2015
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"Paul Ryan on Civil Rights at Town Hall Meeting, 2013."
  • In 2013, Paul Ryan changed his stance on same-sex adoption, showing support for the issue at a Wisconsin town hall meeting. He said, "I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple ... I think if a person wants to love and raise a child, they ought to be able to do that. Period. I would vote that way."[1]
  • In 2006, Ryan voted for HJRes 88 - the Marriage Protection Amendment, which proposed declaring "that: (1) marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman; and (2) neither the U.S. Constitution nor the constitution of any state shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon any other union."[2]
  • Speaking on his decision to vote for the amendment, Ryan said, "I believe that marriage should remain between a man and a woman, and I have heard from many of the people I represent who are concerned about activist judges abusing their power and rewriting our society’s definition of marriage. I had hoped that this amendment wouldn’t be necessary, but increasingly it appears that laws such as the Defense of Marriage Act will not be sufficient to protect marriage from certain courts that distort state and federal constitutional law."[3]

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See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ USA Today, "Rep. Paul Ryan now supports gay adoption," accessed April 28, 2015
  2. ↑ Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.88 - Marriage Protection Amendment," accessed April 28, 2015
  3. ↑ House.gov, "Ryan Votes for Marriage Protection Amendment," accessed April 28, 2015
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