Newt Gingrich Signs National Organization For Marriage's Anti-Gay Marriage Pledge

Shortly after signing the Family Leader's controversial "Marriage Vow" pledge, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich signed another anti-gay marriage pledge, this time from the National Organization for Marriage.

Signing the pledge means Gingrich has committed to backing a U.S. constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage and defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court. If elected president, Gingrich must also appoint judges and a U.S. attorney general who "will respect the original meaning" of the U.S. Constitution's definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, according to NOM's website.

NOM's pledge has now been signed by every major Republican presidential candidate but Ron Paul. Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum signed the pledge back in August.

Gingrich recently came under fire from his gay half-sister Candace Gingrich-Jones for his views against gay marriage. "He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues," Gingrich-Jones said, adding that she is endorsing Obama in the 2012 election.

Comments

[scorpieaux68]

03:17 PM on 01/07/2012

Ron Paul is the only who actually believes and stands by everyone's right to have freedom and choice. Isn't that what America was supposed to be about???

[krteasley]

02:50 PM on 12/21/2011

Interesting blog... http://lalokita3.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/what-do-you-mean-gays-have-rights/

[highstreet]

04:57 PM on 12/19/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRN9Y5Nvdqk

All of them, but Paul, will be ruined by this video of Romney talking to a Veteran who also happens to be gay.

[wilray]

08:53 PM on 12/20/2011

Thanks for sharing the video.

[Larry Vanella]

04:04 PM on 12/19/2011

..........Gingrich must also appoint judges and a U.S. attorney general who "will respect the original meaning" of the U.S. Constitution's definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, according to NOM's website.... Gingrich and all the other right wing bigots need to re-read the Constitution. No where in that document does it say ANYTHING about marriage. Do we really want a President who's lack of Constitutional knowledge is less than that of an 8th grade student!!

[bi-poplar]

03:59 PM on 12/19/2011

Sorry, the ONLY pledge an American politician should make is to the Constitution. All these other right-wing pledges smack of treason

[practiceempathy]

12:49 PM on 12/19/2011

The serial philanderer signs a marriage vow pledge to placate the suckers of his party who will ignore pink elephants in the room so long as their bigotry is validated.

That takes a special kind of *-hole.

[bobparks77]

12:27 PM on 12/19/2011

The gay caballeros are coming unglued. Watch out, folks.

[Blaze Burton]

07:21 AM on 12/19/2011

i love how you keep coming up with statements with out being able to define arguments behind them

[bobparks77]

12:26 PM on 12/19/2011

Oh Blaze, you silly goose.

[TBJ]

01:41 PM on 12/19/2011

And homophobic Germans always lack coherent arguments or thoughts.

Well, homophobes in general, it has nothing to do with country of origin.

[mercury613]

07:10 PM on 12/18/2011

The serial adulterer signs a marriage vow pledge. You can't write this kind of comedy.

[wiltonm]

06:52 PM on 12/18/2011

Newt's against gays getting married because he think it's not right and this act will destroy the "sanctity" of marriage as we know it. We all know how much Newt supports the "sanctity" of marriage, why, he's been married three times. He loves being married so much, he cheats on his wives, just so he can get married and once again celebrate it's "sanctity". We all know how this protection is so crucial considering that the "sanctity" has been compromised so many, many times before by so many heterosexuals, who are allowed to marry and yet divorce, separate, cheat and wife swap. Also lets not forget Kim Kardashian's 72 day marriage and shows on TV like the bachelor and the bachelorette. Yes, Newt, really does have to protect this very important "sanctity" that heterosexuals value so much!

[Tokie]

12:02 AM on 12/19/2011

Very well put! If Newt was so worried about protecting traditional marriage why hasn't he supported a ban on divorce? Newt with his pledges and contracts mean nothing since he cheated on his wives and cheated on Congress when he was speaker with over 80 ethics violations....

[Bob Kellerman]

02:38 AM on 12/19/2011

WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER MARRIED
WHEN HE PUT IT TO HER IN THE CAR?

Of course, later, he did marry her for awhile, til he found a better car

[proffordisabilities]

06:14 PM on 12/18/2011

Newt, are you sure that you are morally qualified to make decisions about marriage? You know that being Gay is not against the law, BUT I believe I read somewhere at sometime that adultry is.

Now, I'm sure that you are aware of Brown v. School Board, Kansas, 1954 says that separate is not equal, so that it would be against that law to provide an alternative (legal) relationship for gays that they must be afforded the same legal relationship that other partners are granted in a state of marriage. What can I say, Newt, its the law.

Now, I am sure that you also recall that Public Law 94-175, 1975, demands that segregation for whatever reason is illegal, and that if it is due to some disability that the accommodations be provided so that those persons may be able to participate FULLY and EQUALLY in public services, and therefore, Newt, public marriages cannot be segregated to only heterosexuals. Sorry, Newt, I know you probably hate these laws, but this is America, and we have laws in America that protect the rights of all people, even those you don't like. Too bad....why not be a leader among bigots, that would be a real contribution to the Great American Cause, equality...

E Pluribus Unam and God Bless America...

[DrJay1966]

02:15 PM on 12/18/2011

Gotta love a serial philanderer on his third marriage who served divorce papers to a woman in a hospital bed and got sued for child support standing up for "traditional marriage."

[mercury613]

07:13 PM on 12/18/2011

Even better: according to his own bible, every time he has sex with his current wife, he is committing adultery. Now there's a man you want signing a pledge to defend marrriage!

[Bob Kellerman]

02:41 AM on 12/19/2011

He is catholic now -- marriages between heathens don't count as marriage, really

HE WAS COMMITTING FORNICATION WITH CALLISTA
BUT NOW IT'S OK, SINCE HE MARRIED HER

[Cam Brunner]

10:40 AM on 12/18/2011

We are closing schools, laying people off. Families are being foreclosed on and being put out in the streets. And all the Republicans running for President can talk about is who is Gay. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. We are not in high school any more. Hello!!! It is a good way to raise money. I think the Republicans have a “gay agenda”, more than the gay community has. They have nothing to say, so they go for the gay!

[Cam Brunner]

10:40 AM on 12/18/2011

However we say it, Mr. Gingrich is all about the money. In a recent story, “Gingrich was ask to return the estimated $1.6 million he received for providing strategic advice to Freddie Mac, the quasi-government agency (an agency that has lost millions) that guarantees home mortgages. Gingrich has said he acted as a historian, not a lobbyist”. A “historian”, is that the history of greed? He may just sell you a book on it!

[bobparks77]

09:39 AM on 12/18/2011

Everyone who is oposed to homosexual "marriage' is not a "bigot." You people who spout such nonsense ruin your own argument. Some of you are, in fact, the 'bigots."

[RutherfordLaser]

10:18 AM on 12/18/2011

Speaking of arguments, I don't think I've seen you ever make one. You can't just re post the same thesis over and over.

[bobparks77]

12:50 PM on 12/18/2011

Sure I can -- I just did. It's sort of like the militant homosexuals posting over and over again that anyone who disagrees with homosexual "marriage" is a "bigot."

[luvMTRYbay]

03:42 PM on 12/18/2011

Well said bobparks77.

[Erin84]

02:55 AM on 12/19/2011

Yes, he did rather well in the saying nothing at all department.