Leadership and Crisis, by Gov. Bobby Jindal: on Civil Rights

Bobby Jindal: Strong views opposing same-sex marriage

When I speak to national reporters, some shoot me a mock sympathetic look, as if to say, "It's okay, I know you can't really believe those things, I know you just have to say that stuff to get elected here in the Deep South." They believe either I don't really hold these socially conservative viewpoints, or I'm really not that smart.

Once, a New York Times reporter only wanted to talk about issues that concerned him personally--issues on which he disagreed with me, like sam -sex marriage, abortion, and the origins of life. Of course, I have strong views on those topics, but they were not major issues in the campaign, partly because my Democratic opponent held similar conservative views to my own on many of these questions.