Mitt Romney defends banning gay marriage with yet more double-talk

Mitt Romney double-talk was out in full force this weekend
 

But -- but to say that -- that marriage is something other than the relationship between a man -- a man and a woman, I think, is a mistake. And the reason for that is not that we want to discriminate against people or to suggest that -- that gay couples are not just as loving and can’t also raise children well.

...and Mitt Romney in the next sentence, saying that the reason he opposes gay marriage is that he doesn't want children to be raised by gay couples:

But it’s instead a recognition that, for society as a whole, that the nation presumably will -- would be better off if -- if children are raised in a setting where there’s a male and a female. And there are many cases where there’s not possible: divorce, death, single parents, gay parents, and so forth.

But -- but for a society to say we want to encourage, through the benefits that...

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