God Wasn't Joking
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.
How does a Republican expect to win when he runs as a Democrat.
Even McCain and Romney attempted to sound at least mildly conservative at this point in their campaigns.
Closed primaries, too. Democrats seem to know who their nominee will be very early in the season. They then change their affiliation and vote in the Republican closed primaries. Back in ‘08 way before Obama was even on the MSM radar the Democrats in Florida were already talking about him as if he had no opposition. I heard several who were talking about changing their registrations back in their home states so they could help derail the Republicans. I am and always have been a registered Democrat, even voted for one as local School supervisor. He turned out to be the first one who did a whole term without scandal. Anyhow, I go to rallies and such to keep track and send the local party $5 to stay on the mailing list every 4 years. Obama was The One before most non Democrats had even heard the name. I scoffed at the time because Mrs. Bill was coming on so strong but the Democrats down here ignored her or even badmouthed her. They all seemed to have got the message directly that I got only indirectly and didn’t believe it.
Respect the “rule of law”? Seriously? Does that mean judges now rule the law because states have passed laws and judges have over”ruled” them. Bush is an ass!
I think the keys to victory for Jeb in this situation are that all the religious folk out there offended by gay marriage get suckered by Huckabee and Santorum so their votes don’t go to Ted Cruz.
Then Jeb wins.....
At least this time around we may have multiple RINOs to split their vote.
I am reading such stories and they hearten me but conservatives need to get united around Cruz now and stay there come what may........the primary-caucus system is as rule rigged for the GOPe as its ever been......
How about a republic?
I disagree.
I will not vote for Cruz because the hate Huckabee brigade has turned me off of him.
Santorum, Jindal, Rubio, Ben Carson, Perry...all still in the running. And Huckabee.
Cruz supporters are like Pat Buchanan supporters were: Cut throat haters. I do not wish to be numbered among them.
The few libs in my family are already joking about how they’ll try to vote “strategically” in their states’ primaries. As soon as Jeb hinted that would be running, they got excited, saying that his name alone would be poison and that even if he won the general, at least he’s “more moderate.”
So while Queen Hillary gets coronated and gets to fundraise and take pot shots from the sideline,, the GOP’s candidates will be shredding each other, draining their coffers fighting, etc while outsiders from another party tilt the proceedings.
Unless we unite early behind one good conservative candidate. It sounds dire, but if there are a lot of candidates diving the vote, maybe 25% for Cruz is enough to win some pivotal early primary states?
PLEASE NO MORE SHRUBS....
‘Gay marriage’ also changes definition and language, as does the notion that in a marriage there can be two husbands or two wives.
Arguably, judges may strike down laws for being “unconstitutional”. But suddenly we have judges rewriting laws which they don’t like in support of their ideological definition of equality.
If marriage laws are unconstitutional because they distinguish heterosexual from homosexual, then it’s one thing to strike down marriage as unconstitutional discrimination, but judges supply do not have any power to force states to rewrite laws or themselves rewrite laws to produce something out of nothing, as if they were gods under our constitution, having no checks or balances on their own power.
Marriage itself is a form of discrimination which is favored by government. Government has a public interest in promoting heterosexual monogamy, but there’s no clear reason why government should promote homosexual monogamy, because the real reason for marriage was so everybody would be reasonably sure who the fathers of babies are—because heterosexuality results in babies being made and babies need families.
Under the old regime, sodomy was a crime, rape was a crime, co-habitation was disallowed even fornication was a crime as a way of containing sexuality to keep it from being destructive. Just because something is “natural” doesn’t make it good. When people get married and “forsake all others”, it’s an act of discrimination against anybody who is not part of the couple. Why should government favor couples, anyway? Soon we will be hearing that question after judges have thrown the barn door wide open for the wolves to feed on the livestock........
......and one wonders why judges don’t strike down all the tax brackets & call it unconstitutional to have more than one applicable tax rate or tax payment for each equal citizen.?
Yup. The one secret weapon we have is talk radio. If the hosts would meet in a smoke-filled room and decide to back Cruz early, he would cruise to victory in the primaries. They have a responsibility to the country to do it.
Yes, and Jeb is working hard to make the concept of national borders the next 'lost cause'.
Go home, Jeb, you’re leftist!
Jeb Bush is just a democrat using the GOP to finance his campaign.
“Respect for the law”!!
That is rich. Something like 35 states passed Laws and Constitutional amendments forbidding the abomination and federal judges abrogated every single law against the will of the people! What law are we supposed to respect when federal,judges don’t respect any state law. We are way down the slippery slope where we are not a nation of laws, but of a few black robed tyrants.
FU Bush.
platforms are meaningless when the candidates don’t agree with it and ignore it anyway
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