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Here's How Marco Rubio Will End Marriage Equality

Here's How Marco Rubio Will End Marriage Equality

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The GOP presidential candidate lays out his plan to end same-sex marriage.

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Speaking to Chuck Todd on Sunday's Meet the Press, Florida U.S. senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio said he's still interested in reversing this year's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which established marriage equality nationwide.

"I don't believe any case law is settled law," he said. "Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed."

While he declined to endorse a constitutional amendment that would overturn Obergefell ("that would be conceding that the current Constitution is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed"), Rubio said each state should be allowed its own definition of marriage.

(RELATED: Inside the Right-Wing Plot to Overturn Marriage Equality)

"If you want to change the definition of marriage, then you need to go to state legislatures and get them to change it," he said. "Because states have always defined marriage. And that's why some people get married in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator."

Rubio took several shots at the Supreme Court's narrowly decided marriage equality ruling: "What is wrong is that the Supreme Court has found this hidden constitutional right that 200 years of jurisprudence had not discovered and basically overturn the will of voters in Florida where over 60 percent passed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage in the state constitution as the union of one man and one woman." Watch more below.

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.