Transcript for John Kasich Not Familiar With Transgender Teen Leelah Alcorn

I'm sure you heard in December 2014. A treasure teenager named Lee Lal corn. Commit suicide in your home state of Ohio what was who did lead Al corn she lived in. Your home state of Ohio anyways. She was partial partial or any responsible is the fact that she was hundred. Subjected to conversion therapy which. Tries it convert people from being gay or transgender. This it is is. Medically flawed practice psychologically damaging California Illinois New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Has outlaw it this. Damaging practice as press in the United States what would you do to protect our Beijing today by sexual interest and. Here's here's here's where where I am so caring so we have. Well I mean is this is a very very tough issue for people okay and let me tell you my view apartment. Personal on not familiar with that case and but I also am watching what's happening in North Carolina what happened in Indiana not watching it closely what happen in Georgia what happened in Mississippi. And we have all this legislation now that people are proposing in my state personal I want no discrimination against anybody. Yeah I'm not in favor of discrimination period end of story secondly ago. The Supreme Court ruled you know in favor of gay marriage on the traditional marriage guy okay. But the court rules I'm allowed a court ruling to stand I'm not looking for some constitutional amendment it's dot. Now. Our religious institution should be protected. They should be able to do the things they want when it comes to commerce. And I got up. Everybody take a pill here for a second day. So. Let's say that I'm run and a cupcake store. Somebody comes in they want to by cupcake. Selma cupcake. OK secondly though if I'm a photographer and you want me to go to your wedding and I don't want to. You know then go find another photographer okay. The idea that we're just going to sue one another for all these things and caused this problem. Things were going along quite well after the Supreme Court decision. And so people were using. People were using this to some degree as a wedge issue okay. Now in if in my state I find that we have a problem. I mean a real problem not a case here case there been a real problem. Where things are coming apart of course we have to do something about that number want to respect. The position of those in the gay community. And secondly to try to figure out what you do about religious liberty but I have to tell you when you get in the middle of that. There's no easy answer. So you know what I kind of think. Let it go. Wrists respect. We got to move to the next but respect people that they are different than we are. Because that's just waited to get and as businesses. I'm not gonna serve you because you're certainly aren't folks. We have to live together we'll want more laws about a little bit more tolerance a little bit more respect.

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