Giuliani: GOP, quit dwelling on gay marriage

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Giuliani to GOP: ‘Get the heck out of people’s bedrooms’
Posted by Chris Grygiel on July 17, 2011.

Rudy Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York City, on Sunday advised his party to halt its vocal opposition to gay marriage.

“I think the Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people’s bedrooms and let these things get decided by states,” Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’d be a much more successful political party if we stuck to our economic, conservative roots.”

Last month New York became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriages. Of that vote, Giuliani, who is mulling a 2012 presidential run, told CNN: “I think it’s wrong, but there are other things that I think are wrong that get decided by democratic vote. I see more harm, however, by dwelling so much on this subject of gays and lesbians and whether it’s right or wrong in politics.”

In 2009 in Washington state the Legislature approved, and voters later upheld, an “everything but marrige” bill which greatly broadened the rights enjoyed by same-sex couples here. State Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, told seattlepi.com last week that Olympia was going to “make a serious effort” to legalize gay marriage in the Evergreen State.

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