Subject: Re: Trey Gowdy interview with Vance,
Thank you, that's what I found as well. Hopefully one day someone will ask Vance his position on these issues. Has trump opined on these issues recently? IF, IF, Vance verbalizes those positions, he and trump are not an option for me and many others. Extended family members are currently dealing with these issues. The 64 BILLION dollar question of the day? IF, Vance and friends feel the way they do about adults with no children, and IF it's very difficult for nontraditional married couples to adopt, what is their solution? Firing squads? Prison? Scared straight, what? Thanks, bud.

I don't believe Trump has made any recent statements about gay marriage. Probably the closest thing would be the GOP platform-writing committee (which he controlled) electing to remove objections to gay marriage from the platform, much to the ire of the evangelical portion of the GOP base.

On adoption, the DOJ filed a brief in support of a religious organization adoption agency arguing that they should be able to reject gay couples from their programs:

https://www.nbcnews.com/featur...

I don't think that Vance believes gay couples (I don't understand why you're using "nontraditional" here, since I don't think you're including polygamist or bigamist or other types of marriages) should be punished for not having their own biological kids. He's just saying that they're lesser because of it. That they won't be as patriotic or mindful of the future or committed to making the world a better place or whatever.

As I so often mention on the boards, though, politics is a team sport. In many respects, it doesn't matter all that much whether Trump or Vance (or any given Congressional candidate) personally support gay marriage or gay adoption. It's far more important whether the coalitions that they bring to power do or don't support those things. Any Republican President makes it more likely that the federal government will advance conservative positions (and vice versa for a Democratic President and progressive positions), regardless of the personal policies of the President himself. I think Trump is unlikely to personally care too much about gay marriage or gay adoption, so those are not likely to be among things that the Oval Office pushes to the top of their agenda - but it's also very likely that his various appointees in the Executive and on the bench are going to have a more conservative view of that issue than you would get with a Democratic President.