Glenn Greenwald defends Matt Gaetz for voting no on same sex marriage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : In 2015, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same sex marriage nationwide.
44% : Last month, the highest court in the land overturned the 1973 ruling which legalized abortion -- giving Democrats an impetus to pre-empt a possible overturning of Obergefell by the conservative majority on the bench.
43% : Gaetz has tweeted that the Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell "is not in jeopardy" and that "gay marriage doesn't offend me nearly as much as offending federalism does through this legislation."Greenwald also posted the result of a Gallup poll which showed that a majority of Republican voters support same sex marriage.
39% : Glenn Greenwald drew the ire of liberals on Twitter after he praised Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for helping to rescind the ban on gay adoption in Florida while also defending his vote to reject codifying same-sex marriage into federal law.
36% :Greenwald hit back, accusing the media of having "rotted your brain so much that you think Republicans want to mass-murder gays in concentration camps.""If Gaetz voted NO because he's against same-sex marriage, why wouldn't he just say that?
33% : But Greenwald, who is gay, defended Gaetz's "No" vote, tweeting: "That NO vote wasn't due to opposition to marriage equality but to his view that individual states have always regulated marriage, not the federal government."
32% : "In 2015, Florida banned adoptions by same-sex couples," Greenwald tweeted on Wednesday.
32% :Greenwald noted that a Democrat, former President Bill Clinton, signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 statute which prevented same-sex couples whose marriages were recognized by their home states from receiving benefits enjoyed by heterosexual couples under federal law.

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