Rick Perry: ‘Obviously, homosexual marriage is not fine with me’
Image via Wikipedia After stirring controversy among conservatives by saying the passage of New York ’s gay “marriage” law was “fine” with him, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has clarified that he is against the marriage law, but in favor of states’ rights on the marriage issue. “I probably needed to add a few words after that ‘it’s fine with me,’ and that it’s fine with me that a state is using their sovereign rights to decide an issue. Obviously gay marriage is not fine with me. My stance hasn’t changed,” Perry told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Thursday. The rest of Perry’s interview with Perkins will be broadcast on Washington Watch Weekly on Friday. Perry had made the original marriage remarks before a crowd of GOP donors in Aspen, Colorado last week. “Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex. And you know what? That’s New York, and that’s their business, and that’s fine with me,” the