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Anti-gay Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ends bid for Republican presidential nomination
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal on Tuesday (17 November) dropped out of the crowded race for the Republican Party presidential nomination.
‘I don’t think in a million years they would have ever imagined that I’d be governor or one day I’d be running for president of the United States,’ he said in a statement. ‘I’ve come to the realization this is not my time.’
Jindal’s poll numbers were consistently low and in four televised debates, he had yet to appear on the main debate stage with such contenders as Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Jindal had been relegated to an earlier undercard debate with other low-polling rivals such as Rick Santorum.
When the US Supreme Court ruled last June that same-sex marriage would now be legal in all 50 states, Jindal blasted the high court and said: ‘Marriage between a man and a woman was established by God, and no earthly court can alter that.’
A month earlier, Jindal had issued an executive order allowing businesses to turn away LGBTI customers, two hours after a state House panel rejected a ‘religious freedom’ bill.
Jindal then became one of four presidential candidates to have signed a pledge last summer to overturn the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage if elected in 2016.
He had joined Ted Cruz, Santorum and Carson in signing the National Organization for Marriage’s pledge. In doing so they vowed to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage and reverse the US Supreme Court’s ‘illegitimate’ decision.
They also promised to ban the promotion of the ‘redefined version of marriage’ in schools, and direct the justice department to investigate cases where anti-gay marriage activists have been ‘harassed or threatened,’ proposing new protections if needed.
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