Posted on 01/03/2014 6:46:18 PM PST by massmike
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist recently issued an apology for backing the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2008.
Crist said in a recent interview with the Orlando-based LGBT publication Watermark Online that he regrets backing Florida's constitutional Amendment 2, which was approved by nearly 62 percent of voters in 2008 and defines marriage as being exclusively for one man and one woman.
"I'm sorry I did that. It was a mistake. I was wrong. Please forgive me," Crist told the publication. "I made a mistake. I'm not perfect … That's the journey I'm on … and I'm still on it.""
Crist was a Republican for the majority of the time he served as Florida's governor from 2007 to 2011, eventually leaving the party to become an Independent in 2009 when he unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat. He then officially joined the Democratic Party in 2012 and endorsed Barack Obama, the democratic presidential candidate running for re-election at the time.
When Watermark Online asked Crist if his previous statements against gay marriage and gay adoption were "politically expedient," the politician responded: "They were. They were. And it was wrong. That's what I'm telling you. And I'm sorry."
"As a Republican, on social issues I always felt I was a round peg in a square hole. I just didn't fit. But I tried, until I couldn't do it any more … until I had to say, 'Enough is enough,'" Crist added.
Notably, when Crist initially backed the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, he said he did so because "It's what I believe in."
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While were on the subject of apologies, I’m sorry that I actually voted for this worthless piece of crap. Big mistake on my part. But, never again. “Anything” for a vote now, eh Charlie?
Can FL people ever get enough of Crist? They surely can’t Obama and the Clintoids.
Charlie blows like a flag, its always in the direction of the wind. Ya just gotta love that kind of a Politician. s/
Did you misspell a word?
He reminds me a lot of Lawton Chiles. He made a lot of sort of country sounding statements such as “that dog won’t hunt”, but was in reality a hard core leftist.
Romney the weathervane was indeed a worthless, vapid nothing. I love how the GOP-e sends us the candidate we hate most to vote for every four years and then blames us for the loss afterward.
Charlie Crist, hugger of Obama, celebrator of sodomy.
Oh gawd.....I thought he had gone away.....sheesh!
the guy is a snake
If I was a democrat I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
I'd vote for the real McCoy liberal over this guy.
Gee. I wonder why he did a thing like that?
Not even that. You are implying there is some "really am" there.
A few years back it was to his advantage to be anti. Today it's to his advantage to be pro. If five years from now being anti was back, he'd revert.
There is no there, there.
"Evolution" of a Democrat:
- Call yourself a Republican and vote for life and against the atrocity of abortion.
- Become "independent" and condone the atrocity.
- Become Democrat and apologize for ever speaking out against the atrocity.
I can see this seeing as to how he is a queer of the tenth magnitude.
The Orange Menace: A flake, a creep, and totally gay.
No homosexuals have ever been “discriminated against” by the rather widely accepted and codified legal definition of marriage, as the socially accepted and legally acknowledged public partnership between one man and one woman.
A male homosexual can legally marry a female homosexual.
No problem!
What same sex marriage supporters crave is the total destruction of the entire social concept of marriage. They remain opposed to a simple legal business partnership agreement alternative, since that would not elevate their sexual preference based abnormality to normal status.
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