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Trump says he’s “fine” with marriage equality; campaigned SCOTUS appointees would reconsider

President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes - CBS News
President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes – CBS News

BY CHRIS JOHNSON  |  Amid fears the next administration would undermine LGBT rights, President-elect Donald Trump said he’s “fine” with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage and believes it’s settled law.

Calling himself a “supporter” of LGBT people, Trump made the remarks during an interview on CBS “60 Minutes” set to air Sunday night after reporter Leslie Stahl asked the president-elect about fears among LGBT people — as well as black people and Muslims — they’d face persecution with him as president.

Asked whether Trump supports marriage equality, Trump said his views are “irrelevant” because the Supreme Court has already rendered a decision on the issue.

“it’s irrelevant because it was already settled,” Trump said. “It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done.”

Pressed by Stahl on whether his judicial appointments would reverse the decision, Trump, who previously said he opposes same-sex marriage, said he’s now “fine” with the ruling.

“It’s done,” Trump said. “These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m fine with that.”

On the campaign trail, Trump said he doesn’t favor same-sex marriage and urged social conservatives to “trust” him on the issue. Trump also said he’d “strongly consider” appointing justices to U.S. Supreme Court who reverse the decision for marriage equality. However, he said he doesn’t support the idea of U.S. constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

In the same interview, Trump took a different approach to his view on Roe v. Wade, saying he’d appoint justices who are pro-life and “if it ever were overturned, it would go back to the states.”

Asked by Stahl if women wouldn’t be able to obtain an abortion in the event, Trump said “they’ll perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state.”

“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said. “It’s got a long way to go, just so you understand. That has a long, long way to go.”

If Trump, as he has pledged, appoints conservatives in the mold of the late U.S. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court, he would have little capacity to convince the Supreme Court to abstain from reversing its decision on marriage equality. However, the confluence of events would be needed for the Supreme Court to revisit the issue and undo the ruling are unlikely to happen.

Stahl raised the issue of marriage equality with Trump in the context of questioning about the fears LGBT people feel about his administration. In response, Trump recalled he “mentioned them at the Republican National Convention.”

“Everybody said, ‘That was so great,’” Trump said. “I have been — you know, I’ve been — a supporter.”

During his speech at the Republican National Convention to protect LGBT people from a foreign ideology, which marked the first-time ever a Republican presidential nominee mentioned LGBT people in a positive way during an acceptance speech. Critics pounced on Trump for making the remarks without supporting LGBT rights and not mentioning anything supporting LGBT people from a domestic ideology.

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