"It's your turn, Jeb!"
"Ah'm ready, George! Ah'm Ready!"
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.
We're not even identifying them or seeking them out for boycott. The homo crowd doesn't get any interference from us in having their little make believe weddings.
We only object when they subvert the law to cheapen and destroy the meaning of ours.
I will not vote for him. What is the point your screwed either way.
The one hopeful sign is that it looks like there will be more than one prominent leftist in the Republican primaries. to split the squish and left Republican votes as the conservaitve votes will be split. I suspect, though, that the Lefties, Mitt and Jeb and Christie will lay off each other through the early primaries and spend their money knocking out the Conservatives and Huckabee then when they are the only ones left they will commence the real primary season to see which one of them gets to take the fall in November. It won’t be Christie.
You just gotta know Ted’s got that Mr. Burns smile on his face, watching Jeb step in so much stuff - so early.
Jeb will not get a cent from me nor my vote.
I believe in the Bible, so; there is no way I can respect any gay.
Ditto!
Nope.
Good idea.
Now just get those guys to agree with one another!
It has nothing to do with respect but everything to do with votes.
Re your Bush Bros. photo, post #70:
Is that Jeb with George, or is it Will Farrell?
I will go on believing that there is no such thing as gay marriage, despite what the government tells me. Someone could say that marriage is not necessarily religious, but marriage is in the Bible. God would no more bless a gay marriage than He would child sacrifice, another tradition of the left.
And the RINOs at Faux News will continue to insist that he’s actually “very Conservative”
All it will take is for “progressive” courts to give their OK — and Jeb will “respect”
Watch it, nOOb! ;-)
Seriously, if j bush is it, then hitlary will win. God help U.S.
The Republican platform is not created by the candidates. It is created by the people. And the candidates who care nothing about the platform hate it. Sort of like when King John had to sign the Magna Carta. Just because a candidate doesn’t like it and tends to ignore it, does not mean the importance is lessened.
What if the law is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A government and a country that legally and morally equates two perverted homos who play around in their own feces as the same thing as a “husband and wife” is not a government or a country that I’ll respect or even recognize as legitimate.
Like I’m really surprised Jeb “open-borders” Bush is in bed with the degenerates. So hard to believe how a few short years ago, the GOP routinely spoke up for family values. Now so many of them cozy right up to evil and depravity. Mind-boggling.
F-NO!
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