Kasich: Can LGBT People 'For A Second, Get Over It' If They Feel They Are Being Discriminated Against
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes LGBT people should "get over it" if they feel they are being discriminated against.
Speaking to CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said people need to "relax" as government tries to strike a balance between religious liberty and discrimination.
"Here's what I think. There is a legitimate concern for people being able to have their deeply held religious beliefs, religious liberty, but there's also people we shouldn't be discriminating against," Kasich said. "We need to have a balance. We need to strike a balance.
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"I just wish that everybody would just take a breath and calm down because, you see, trying to figure out how to legislate that balance is complicated and you keep doing do-overs because nobody gets it right. So if we would just calm down here, I think things would settle down."
Kasich then said people should pray for others if they don't like what they are doing.
"And what I would like to say is, just relax. If you don't like what somebody is doing, pray for them, and if you feel as though somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just, for a second, get over it? This thing will settle down and I think, to some degree, this has become a wedge issue that can be exploited by people on both sides," he told CNN. "We don't need that. We need a … united America, not a divided America. As one of my daughter's said, 'We need a United States, not a divided states.'"
North Carolina has been criticized for its anti-LGBT "bathroom law" as businesses and conferences have been pulling out of the state.
Polls show Kasich trailing Donald Trump in the New York Republican primary.