Paul Ryan On Gay Adoption

According to the WKOW, the United States Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district and current chairman of the House Budget Committee Paul Ryan stated on Monday during a town hall event in Janesville, Wis., that he has reversed his stance on gay pairs adopting children.

An audience member at the event asked Ryan why he doesn't defend same-sex marriage. Ryan claimed that while he continues to believe marriage should only be between a man and a woman, he now regrets voting in 1999 to ban same-sex couples in the District of Columbia from adopting children.

"Adoption, I'd vote differently these days. That was I think a vote I took in my first term, 1999 or 2000," Ryan was quoted as saying, explaining: "I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple, I think if a person wants to love and raise a child they ought to be able to do that. Period. I would vote that way."

Ryan, 43, who served as 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, added that he had changed his position on same-sex adoptions years ago.


Romney's stance on the issue has come under close exxamination as well. In an interview with Fox News last May, Romney stated he believed it was "fine" for gay couples to adopt children, a viewpoint he also held while serving as governor of Massachusetts. However, he later appeared to walk back his support, claiming that he would only "acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal in all states but one."


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