Mitt Romney spars with Vietnam vet over gay marriage - Los Angeles Times
The scene: Mitt Romney visits a diner in Manchester, New Hampshire:
Noticing [Bob] Garon’s black Vietnam veteran cap, Romney sat down beside him and tried to strike up a conversation about his military service as reporters and cameramen crowded around the booth.
“I’ve have a question for you,” Garon said, cutting off the former Massachusetts governor’s attempt at chitchat. “New Hampshire has some legislation kicking around about the repeal of same-sex marriage [law].… All I need is a yes or a no.”
Romney crisply told Garon that because of his view that “marriage is between a man and woman,” he supported efforts to repeal the law.
“Mmmm-hmm, OK, that means that if you’re in the White House, you will not support any form of legislation that would change that so that servicemen will be entitled to benefits like a man and a woman?” Garon asked. “If two men get married, apparently a veteran’s spouse would not be entitled to any burial benefits or medical benefits or anything that the serviceman, [who] has devoted his time and effort to his country, [gets]. You just don’t support equality in terms of same-sex marriage?”
Bob Garon is married to a man.
