From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/28/romney-advisor-republicans-largely-lost-the-culture-wars-on-marriage-equality/
By Arturo Garcia
Monday, January 28, 2013
The former Iowa advisor for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign said the Republican party should heed the demographic shift on issues like marriage equality.
“Frankly, the culture wars are kind of over,” Dave Kochel told WHO-TV on Sunday. “And Republicans largely lost.”
Kochel, a longtime GOP strategist in the state, said his stance was informed by his children, one of whom is a high school senior and one a college student.
“When they talk to me about what they care about and what their counterparts in school are talking about, it’s not gay marriage and it’s not abortion and birth control,” he said. “Those are largely settled issues for young voters. And so, I think we’ve got to move past it.”
Romney’s own stance on the issue shifted slightly during his campaign. As The Advocate reported in October 2012, a campaign spokesperson said that while the former Massachusetts governor pledged in writing to support the Defense of Marriage Act and a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, he did believe that states had the right to define their own rules regarding same-sex partners’ access to adoption and hospital visitation rights.
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