"People in this country, no matter straight or gay, deserve dignity and respect. However, that doesn't mean it carries on to marriage," Priebus said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Although Priebus said he supports equal rights for gay Americans, including fair treatment in the workplace and hospital visitations, he pushed back against the suggestion that same-sex marriage falls in the same "civil rights" category.
"I don't think it's a matter of civil rights. I think it's just a matter of whether or not we're going to adhere to something that's been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years," Priebus said. "I mean, marriage has to have a definition, and we just happen to believe it's between a man and woman."
He also sought to contrast Jim Crow laws, which enforced segregation, with bans on same-sex marriage, a comparison some have made following the president's announcement Wednesday that he now supports such unions.
"I think there's a big difference between people that have been murdered and everything else that has come with Jim Crow, than marriage between a man and man and a woman and a woman," he said.
Right. Because it's not a civil rights issue at all, it's just putting those filthy gays in their place. Gays by the way in American history have never been killed or driven to suicide unlike African-Americans under Jim Crow laws. Never, ever. Nope.
And half a century ago the definition of marriage was between people of the same race only. The GOP just happened to believe that then. And if you give them the opportunity, why they'll make sure all of us have no choice but to believe same-sex marriage is evil.
It'll be in the US Constitution.
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