Amy Walter: Gay Marriage Wouldn’t Be an Issue if We Just Got Rid of Everyone over 50

Meet The Press Panel Eagerly Hits GOP Over Religious Freedom Laws (NewsBusters)

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, an all liberal panel repeatedly took shots at the Republican Party over its support for religious freedom laws with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report going so far as to suggest that on the issue on the issue of gay marriage “if we took everybody over the age of 50, and just moved them out of this country, this wouldn't be an issue at all.” 

Moderator Chuck Todd explained that many within the evangelical community “feel as though a lot of Republicans pay them lip service” and do not truly support them on social issues. Todd explain that "when the going gets tough, the first part of the Republican constituency that gets abandoned is evangelicals.”