Marilinda Garcia, a Republican U.S. House candidate from New Hampshire, plagiarized portions of a 2012 speech she gave against same-sex marriage, according to an analysis by the left-leaning group Granite State Progress.
Garcia, who was named a “rising star” by the Republican National Committee, delivered the speech as a state representative in an effort to repeal New Hampshire’s marriage equality law. The language she used is nearly identical in some passages to a 2010 editorial by the National Review.
“Marriage exists to solve a problem,” Garcia said. “That problem is a societal problem that rises from sex between men and women, but not from sex between partners of the same gender. That problem is what to do about its generativity.”
The National Review editorial has a very similar paragraph:
Marriage exists, in other words, to solve a problem that arises from sex between men and women, but not from sex between partners of the same gender: what to do about its generativity.
Granite State Progress pointed out many other passages Garcia appears to have plagiarized. She said in her speech, “A man and a woman who unite biologically may or may not have children depending on factors beyond their control, but the point is that a same-sex couple cannot thus unite.”
The National Review editorial uses the same words: “A man and a woman who unite biologically may or may not have children depending on factors beyond their control; a same-sex couple cannot thus unite.”
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