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A civil union, a legal arrangement if that's what a state chooses to do so. >> that was george w. bush in 2004 saying that he was in favor of civil unions for same-sex couples. 2004, the last republican president. the current republican nominee for president is against that. >> i think people have differing views on marriage and i respect people's different views. i'm in favor of traditional marriage, between a man and a woman. and i don't favor civil union or gay marriage. >> we think of the country as getting less anne-gay over time, but for the top tier of republican politicians, they are g...

Now that he's further along in his career and the de facto republican nominee for president, not only is he not trying to mainstream gay and lesbian equality, he is actively working against it. he's promising to fight it. he's pledging to pursue an amendment to the united states constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples. to impose that ban federally, no matter what individual states want. when the romney campaign appointed an openly gay spokesman recently, he was hounded out of the job on the basis of the fact that he was gay. >> personnel is policy. when governor romney picked ...