Aaron Schock Dodges Same-Sex Marriage Questions

By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Feb 2, 2013 9:00PM

At a media event this week, reporters asked U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) why he doesn't support marriage equality.

"Uh, well, I, I just haven't," he said.

He further explained his position by saying, "I think everybody has a set of beliefs on issues, social issues in particular, that are a reflection of how they were raised and their set of beliefs."

The Huffington Post wrote that Schock told BuzzFeed last year that he would support a federal marriage amendment banning same-sex marriage. "When it was explained to him that that would block states from OKing same-sex unions within their borders -- he conceded that he had not 'really thought too much about it.' He also criticized President Obama and the Department of Justice for not defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court."

Meanwhile, Schock, who is rumored to be mulling a gubernatorial run, is blaming the media for making it sound like he asked other Republicans to drop out of the race.

“The newspaper reporter said, ‘do you think people who lost elections should continue to run?’” Schock says, “and I said, ‘Well, I can’t tell anybody not to run, but to me, that’s the definition of insanity: you keep doing the same things and expect different results.’”

Here's the video of Schock talking marriage equality.