Bobby Jindal in Buzzfeed.com

On Drugs: No legalization; but focus on rehabilitation for addicts

Jindal's vision of modern social conservatism contains some updates. Rather than moralizing about the pernicious evils of drug culture and the need to crack down on addicts, he has followed some of his Republican colleagues in adopting a softer--and, perhaps, more Christian--stance. He said he doesn't favor legalization, but, "I'm absolutely in favor of making sure that, especially [for] nonviolent offenders, we're providing drug treatment, rehabilitation, instead of just continuing to lock them up." He added, "The reality is that I think it's better for those individuals to get back as productive members of society." Source: Buzzfeed blog 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls Jun 20, 2014

On Families & Children: Entered into "covenant marriage" with his wife

The president of the Family Research Council praised Jindal as one of the few prospective 2016 candidates with a personal life that exemplifies conservative religious values. As an example, Jindal and his wife, Supriya, were the first couple in the country to enter into a "covenant marriage," a special sort of legal union designed by Perkins in Louisiana when he was a state lawmaker that makes divorce more difficult.

On paper, Jindal seems like an improbable candidate to marshal the religious right in the culture wars. He is an ethnic minority in a movement that is almost entirely white. Perhaps most problematically, Jindal was raised Hindu, and became a Catholic in his late teens only after a complicated, and sometimes messy, conversion that he later detailed in a series of articles for an obscure religious journal. The articles are nuanced, fascinating, and deeply human, revealing a level of self-awareness and sophistication about faith that is uncommon among aspiring politicians.

Source: Buzzfeed blog 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls Jun 20, 2014

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