Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

David Lampo of the Cato Institute is the author of “A Fundamental Freedom: Why Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support Gay Rights.” He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
1 posted on 07/23/2012 9:55:58 AM PDT by massmike
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: massmike
... and this was printed in the "conservative" Boston Herald!

Gives you an idea of how bad Boston REALLY is......

2 posted on 07/23/2012 9:57:26 AM PDT by massmike (The choice is clear in November: Romney or Caligula!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

I don’t care what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom. That’s their business and God’s, not mine. But as soon as they bring their perversion out into the public square and shove it in my face and try to teach my children that it’s good and right and normal? Brother, you just MADE it my business. And I will never support it.

}:-)4


4 posted on 07/23/2012 10:05:35 AM PDT by Moose4 (...and walk away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

Looks like the moderates are feeling empowered.


5 posted on 07/23/2012 10:07:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

On Myth # 1, Republicans oppose special rights for gays. Republicans support gays having the same rights as anyone else.

On Myth # 2, Evangelicals support a view of gay marriage and other “gay rights” that, until about 10 or 20 years ago, was broadly accepted by EVERYONE including Democrats. Having said that, I don’t know of many people — even religious conservatives — who support locking gays up.

Myth # 3 is true. In fact, looking at most polls, there is little support among the general public for gay marriage. This isn’t just a “conservative” or “Christian” issue.

On Myth # 4, the media has tried and tried to turn the Tea Party into some social issues movement when it never was. The media needs to turn the Tea Party into some intolerant stereotype to turn the public against them. Its the clearest example of advocacy journalism in modern history.

Bottom Line: if gays want to support limited government and not ask for special rights, they are welcome in the Republican Party.


9 posted on 07/23/2012 10:25:10 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

The two items above should be reason enough to say that the GOP tent should never be that big. Let the Democraps be the party of perversion.


10 posted on 07/23/2012 10:25:45 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike
I am anti-use-of-the-word-gay to describe homosexuals.

If homosexuals weren't so homophobic about admitting their homosexuality, they wouldn't have to usurp and corrupt other words to disguise their homosexuality and make it more acceptable to a continually indoctrinated public.

Room for homosexuals in the GOP big tent?....sure, there is at least one open space under that tent, because I left.

11 posted on 07/23/2012 10:28:25 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

Sure gays are welcome just like drug addicts and alcoholics.
If you repent from your sin/crime and chose to lead a moral life you are most welcome. If you want to live as a pervert. You are not welcome.


15 posted on 07/23/2012 11:05:04 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike

If gays want to be Republicans or conservatives no one is stopping them, or trying to. It’s the gay agenda we don’t care for, and there is nothing to be gained by trying to accommodate it. As a demographic, gays are too small a percentage of the Republican Party to justify promoting a culturally unsound and destructive gay agenda. Gay marriage, and gay indoctrination in the classrooms are not winning issues. If they were, Obama would have an 80 percent approval rating. Gay is not the new norm, sexual and cultural perversion haven’t taken us there yet, and they never should.


16 posted on 07/23/2012 11:20:38 AM PDT by pallis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: massmike
I have GOD and his written word to guide my decisions... the republican party no longer believes in GOD... they believe in their own power and wealth only.

LLS

17 posted on 07/23/2012 11:27:09 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson