JEEEEB!!!!
Posted on 01/10/2015 4:31:17 PM PST by Morgana
Less than a month after announcing a possible bid for U.S. president, Jeb Bush is taking criticism from social conservatives after he called for “respect” of gay “marriages” in response to a court decision allowing the unions to proceed in Florida.
Earlier this week, the probable Republican presidential candidate told The New York Times, "We live in a democracy, and regardless of our disagreements, we have to respect the rule of law.”
“I hope that we can show respect for the good people on all sides of the gay and lesbian marriage issue – including couples making lifetime commitments to each other who are seeking greater legal protections and those of us who believe marriage is a sacrament and want to safeguard religious liberty.”
The Times notes that those comments came a day after Bush told The Miami Herald that marriage "ought to be...a state decision."
"The state decided. The people of the state decided. But it’s been overturned by the courts, I guess," Bush told the Herald.
Bush's comments drew harsh criticism from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who wrote on Facebook, "If we are going to allow the courts to decide what our nation's public policies are going to be on 'controversial' issues why do we need a president? What good is a Congress? Heck we can save a lot of money and send them all home!"
Perkins asked whether Bush "hold[s] the same view of the Court's 1973 decision declaring a constitutional right to abort an unborn child?"
Bush's position on marriage straddles a difficult line for the possible presidential candidate, who had a socially conservative record as Florida governor but is trying to soften both his image and that of the GOP. During his first, and failed, gubernatorial campaign in 1994, he wrote that "[h]omosexuality is wrong, but it is also wrong to discriminate against homosexuals in employment, housing, etc., solely on the basis of sexual preference."
However, wrote Bush, government should not enforce non-discrimination. "Or, to put it another way, should sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is No. We have enough special categories, enough victims, without creating even more."
A spokesperson for Bush told Buzzfeed this week, “This opinion editorial from 20 years ago does not reflect Gov. Bush’s views now, nor would he use this terminology today.”
"Gov. Bush believes that our society should have a culture of respect for all people, regardless of their differences, and that begins with preventing discrimination, including when it comes to sexual orientation,” the spokesperson added.
JEEEEB!!!!
Respect this! FUJB!!
Sounds like Jeb Bush is a real live Conservative-Patriot-Tea Party kind of guy. Oh I forgot he don’t need no stinking base.
Outlet + outlet
plug + plug
Doesn’t work. No amount of emotion can change that.
Just throw away them Bibles. Depravity is the new morality.
Love your enthusiasm Jim!
I suppose little Jebby is going to want us to R-E-S-P-E-C-T pedophiles next.
It’s considered a fight not worth fighting.
It’s already lost is the idea.
Yes, we must have a basic level of respect and civility for every person: for their human identity, which includes the natural categories of male and female, and for their human dignity, which includes their capacity to make good choices or be held responsible for bad ones.
But "gay marriage" is actually worse ---- much worse --- than simple gay fornication, because it suborns or coerces the complicity of an entire society.
That's not liberty, and that's certainly not civility.
Jeb rallies his base /S
Jeb has developed the art of saying all of the above and hoping voters are stupid enough to say “hey, he agrees with me.” The danger for all career politicians is that they will become professional liars seeking nothing more than power and praise. Looks like Jeb stepped in it.
Since I’m all for traditional marraige and they gays don’t seem to respect it then they don’t deserve my respect.
The Republicans and the GOPe Candidate....belly up to the gay bar
Homosexuality is a direct assult against the union God created....if a politician thinks they should be respected for their choice of where they put their “junk” then his whole thinking is off kilter and then some of what it is ...moreso how God sees it.
Jeb will never take a stand on any issue......not because he can’t, though that’s questionable, but because he won’t.
Act of Love, part deux.
Ha! Respect for people who use others in such a disgusting, vile, irrational Satanic manner, which is replete with pederasty and bestiality: people who look “with lust” at members of their own sex in such a warped, evil, dehumanizing manner and molest children at horrific rates, which destroys the possibility of true Love and true friendship and warps the minds of children.
Respect a Vice which destroys Reason and Understanding of Natural Laws and which destroys the Natural Family and makes babies into commodities to be sold and bought-—denied their Natural Right to biological parents BY A “JUSTICE” System. (Doublespeak, Mr Jebby and Radical Marxism to “Kill God” in worldview of the children”.
How evil, to construct a so-called “Justice” System based on Satanic Ethics, which normalizes Vice. You are devoid of Common Sense or Evil, Jebby.
Marriage is a sacrament. trying to sanctify a behavior with a new label. Doesn’t change what it is.
How do we make our objections known to him and his people that we simply do not want him as our president? How do we get the message to him that he should just not waste his time? He needs to know that voters aren’t sitting out here all twitterpated over his choice to run.
Next up for Jeb: ‘Respect’ for the Muslim terrorists.
NO MORE BUSHES
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