text:  He's known to be anti-same-sex marriage, conservative in his social views, but at the same time, he's known to be courageous in speaking out against dictators like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Idi Amin in Uganda. And suddenly, there he is standing up and really people did not expect it, really speaking out, saying, we can do this. He sort of appealed and he said, let's not, as someone else said earlier, kick this into the long grass.