Presidential candidate: 'Gay marriage is a moral crisis'

A potential Presidential candidate has claimed that gay marriage is a “moral crisis”.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who is considered a major frontrunner for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, made the anti-gay remarks during a private meeting with religious leaders last week.

Rand claims that the US is in need of a religious “revival” in the wake of the “moral crisis” that he believes same-sex marriage has brought upon the country.

“Don’t always look to Washington to solve anything,” said Rand. “In fact, the moral crisis we have in our country, there is a role for us trying to figure out things like marriage, there’s also a moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage.”

He continued: “There’s a role outside and inside government, but the exhortation to try to change people’s thoughts has to come from the countryside, from outside Washington.”

“We need a revival in the country. We need another great awakening,” he added.

Meanwhile, over the weekend a street preacher in the UK was fined £200 for calling homosexuality an “abomination” – find out more here.

Presidential candidate: ‘Gay marriage is a moral crisis’

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