Jeb Bush to gay man: 'Your relationship should not have the same status as traditional marriage.'

[seafan]

Jeb Bush’s Emails as Governor Show His Feelings on Same-Sex Marriage, NYT, August 25, 2015


Jeb Bush campaigning last week in Columbia, S.C.Credit Rainier Ehrhardt/Associated Press

The exchange is raw, personal and angry: Xavier Cortada, a gay friend of Jeb Bush, then the governor of Florida, sent him an email on March 3, 2004, with a plea.

Mr. Cortada, an artist, was alarmed that Mr. Bush’s brother, President George W. Bush, was proposing to amend the Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage – and was unsettled that the governor backed the idea.

“When one of us is denied equality, then all of us are denied liberty,” Mr. Cortada wrote to Mr. Bush. “Today, I am feeling particularly denied and particularly unequal.”

Could they discuss this further, Mr. Cortada asked?

Mr. Bush’s reply is polite and sensitive, but at times clinical and moralistic — he writes of “contractual obligations.” The governor ultimately seems unmoved by the letter’s demand for equality.

“I don’t believe that your relationship should be afforded the same status in the law as a man and a woman agreeing to marriage,” he wrote.

The letter is one of dozens at the heart of a new e-book by Mr. Bush, titled “Reply All,” that goes on sale Tuesday night. It is a memoir of his governorship told through the email exchanges he had with staff members, the news media and residents of Florida.

The e-mail exchange is in full, at the link.


Bushes never outgrow their bigotry.

[Agschmid]

1. Kick...

This is why we need to win.

[Fawke Em]

2. Bush also doesn't approve of traditional marriage.

When Michael Schiavo decided to carry out his wife's wishes not to live forever as a vegetable, which is he is legally allowed to do as part of a "traditional" marriage, Bush interfered in that.

[sakabatou]

6. Yep

[MineralMan]

3. Uh, Jeb...SCOTUS Disagrees with You.

You do know what the SCOTUS is, right? Are you sure the presidency is the right place for you? I suggest withdrawing, since you don't appear to support our constitutional republic.

[PJMcK]

4. It's an old quote

Without disagreeing with your sentiment and certainly not in defense of Governor Bush, the correspondence is from 2004.

I doubt that the Governor's opinion has evolved, however.

[truebluegreen]

5. "But it does." Too bad.

Heh.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Why any gay person would consider Jeb Bush a 'friend' is beyond me. nt

[Darb]

8. This book is meant as cover for the emails

that he doesn't want us to see. Like the shady-ass deals he made with the federal hurricane relief money in 2004, an election year for his brother.

[forest444]

9. Does that include his father?

http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/franklin.htm

[the_sly_pig]

10. Dim Son II

Even the conservative morans on the Supreme Court disagree with Jebenezer the Simpleton. Get over it already, its so three months ago......

[Betty Karlson]

11. K&R -- Two questions:

Is this book likely to get Bush closer to
a) the nomination?
b) the presidency?

[seafan]

12. Never forget that Jeb Bush has "an email problem" of his own. The "e-book" is a shiny bauble.

Thank you, and I would refer you to this piece I put up this morning.

This whole "e-book" is another pathetic attempt to shift eyes away from his actual record.

If the "Mainstream Media" would get up off of its stenographer's backside, put down their DC cocktail glasses and so some real investigating and REPORTING, fewer and fewer people would be undecided over Jeb Bush's so-called *competency*.

It absolutely makes me furious what this character has skated away from thus far.