According to Pew Research, the majority of Catholics in the USA, 59%, (Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage -March 2014) support gay marriage. Clearly this is Jeb's political calculation to make sure he conquers the fundamentalist vote while simultaneously knowing that the Supreme Court will more than likely agree to gay marriage as the law of the land in a month or two.
One of the bigger tasks of a president is to nominate Supreme Court judges. Jeb's announcement here likely means that he would nominate fundamentalist leaning judges during a Bush III presidency.
WaPo: Jeb Bush: No constitutional right to same-sex marriage
"It’s at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a committed child-centered family system, is hard to imagine," he said. "So, irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling — because they are going to decide whatever they decide, I don’t know what they are going to do — we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage."
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