Romney adamantly rejects same-sex marriage

Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney, wooing social conservatives, has adamantly rejected same-sex marriage and trumpeted his belief in Christian values and the family.

Days after Barack Obama became the first US president to back gay and lesbian marriage, Mr Romney told university graduates the “pre-eminence of the family” remains at the heart of the principles that underpin the nation.

“As fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debate,” the presumptive Republican nominee told the class of 2012 at Liberty University, the biggest Christian campus in the US.