A North Carolina Republican candidate
for the U.S. House offended a sixth-grader when he told her that gay
marriage was like “man marrying a dog.”
Rockingham County District Attorney
Phil Berger Jr. was among the GOP candidates quizzed by students at
Greensboro Montessori School during a candidates forum on Wednesday.
When sixth-grader Lana Torres affirmed
herself as a supporter of marriage equality and asked Berger how he
would ensure equal rights for LGBT people, the sixth congressional
district candidate answered: “Two years ago, the voters of North
Carolina overwhelmingly approved Amendment One, which only recognized
traditional marriage. And I was a leader in that effort. I was the
spokesman for traditional marriage in North Carolina, and I am very
much in favor of traditional marriage.”
Torres told the News
& Record that at the conclusion of the candidates forum
she pressed Berger on the issue.
“He talked about a man marrying a
dog,” Torres told the paper. “I found that really offensive,
that he would compare gay marriage to something so offensive and
outrageous.”
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