Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush's campaign strategy had been to soft-peddle his far-right positions during the primary in order to avoid alienating general election voters. He's been consistently opposed to marriage equality, for instance, but he's
called for "respect" and
praised some LGBT parents by way of painting himself as a non-bigot. But Bush isn't even officially in the race yet and already, in his interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, he's abandoning the compassionate-conservative hedging. Asked
whether there's a constitutional right to marriage, Bush replied:
I don’t but I’m not a lawyer and clearly this has been accelerated at a warp pace. What’s interesting is four years ago [sic] Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had the same view that I just expressed to you. It’s thousands of years of culture and history is just being changed at warps speed. It’s hard to fathom why it is this way.
Bush also said that "irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling because they are going to decide whatever they decide ... we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage." Of course, marriage—"traditional" marriage, even—is
always changing, and conservatives are always fighting that change, whether it be women having rights as independent adults within marriage, access to divorce, interracial marriage, or same-sex marriage.
Bush isn't changing the meat of his marriage equality position: He's against it, and always has been. But he's conspicuously dropping the "respect" part.