Emily Heil at the Washington Post says Mitt Romney gave a commencement speech at the University of Virginia over the weekend. Part of his advice for graduates? Don't wait until you're in your 30s or 40s to get married and have kids:
âTheyâre going to miss so much of living, Iâm afraid,â Romney said of the sad, single losers who opt to spend their 20s without a ring (he says, unsurprisingly, nothing of those who might want to get hitched but canât.).
Of the Bible, he tells the young folks: âWhen it says âmarry,â listen!...Have a quiver full of kids if you can.â
As Heil mentions, Romney was against gay marriage all during the six years he was running for president, even signing a pledge to vigorously defend DOMA. So he's not for everyone getting married. (And depending on the day, he's not even in favor of gay couples adopting kids.) But that's pretty much par for the course for Romney; one of his favorite rhetorical tics is ignoring the people he disagrees with rather than even dignifying them with a slight. You can read a full account of Romney's speech at the Roanoke, but why would you want to?