AWOL in the Fight for Marriage

http://www.americanclarion.com ^ | April 7, 2015 | Bob Ellis

[kindred]

As Cliff Kincaid noted in a recent column,

Only six of 54 Republican members of the Senate signed a pro-traditional marriage legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that was submitted on Friday. USA Today noted, “By contrast, 44 Democratic senators and 167 Democratic House members filed a brief last month urging the court to approve same-sex marriage. The brief included the full House and Senate [Democratic] leadership teams.”

Who were these six Republicans who were actually willing to stand up for the documented Republican value of marriage? ◾Senator Ted Cruz of Texas ◾Senator Steve Daines of Montana ◾Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma ◾Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma ◾Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ◾Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

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It’s a pity that the newly announced presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) did not defend marriage. At least we have a presidential candidate in Senator Ted Cruz who is willing to go to the mat for Republican values.

The ratio was a little better in the House, with 51 representatiaves, or about 20% of Republicans, signing on. Twenty percent is still pretty pathetic, though.

The Republican Party is the conservative party of record, and the Democrat Party is the liberal party of record. All things being equal, one would expect virtually all Republicans to work hard to promote conservative policy positions (i.e. protecting marriage from homosexual activists), while virtually all Democrats worked hard to promote liberal policy positions (i.e. promoting sexual anarchy and destroying the family).

So why the disparity here, where most Democrats did indeed level their guns on marriage and family, while only a little over 10% of Republicans went to bat for marriage and family?

The experiences of the past six years or more have produced two basic answers: (1) A great number of “Republicans” are little more than Democrats with an “R” after their name, otherwise known as liberal RINOs, and (2) most of the remaining Republicans who actually do believe in the documented conservative values are either incapable of arguing their way out of a wet paper bag or pee their pants at the thought that bad people might say something bad about them.

As a South Dakotan, I’m very pleased that South Dakota’s Rep. Kristi Noem was one of the 51 House Republicans who signed onto the defense of marriage; sadly, the “Republican” Speaker of the House was not a signatory.

For all his faults, in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did sign onto the defense of marriage.

But as a South Dakotan, I’m wondering: Where were Senator John Thune (R-SD-61%) and Senator Rounds? Were they out of town when this brief was put together? Couldn’t reach them by email or cell phone? Smoke signals weren’t working? Telegram impossible?

After all, weren’t we told all last year that Mike Rounds was really a conservative (despite his record of liberal betrayals), and that even if Rounds had some, um, “issues”, we could count on John Thune to nursemaid him to do the right thing?

Anyone still believe either of those claims (if anyone believed them to begin with)?

Is it time to get rid of any and all “Republicans” who refuse to defend Republican values, before the values that made America great are completely ground to powder beneath the heel of the Left? Can pro-family people and groups legitimately support politicians who won’t support family values?

[kindred]

It is a shame that those like me, Christian Conservatives who stand on the Word of God as the Word of God and everything else tradition, which can indeed be a bad thing as evidenced by the heresies of so many of Christiandom who do not hold to the Word of God being what God says it is, His Word to us for our growth in Godly wisdom and understanding. And our Father, God Almighty whose only begotten Son is Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, has much to say about morality in the lives of His saved sinners, Christians, aka, Saints. Now that I know what only six senators of the once conservative republican party think about my rights and freedoms, I can say about them what I say about democrats some 40 years now, they are worthless fools and will no longer have my vote. I hope the whole party falls apart and then perhaps conservatives could start a conservative party that represents conservatives only. No more communist democrats or liberal rinos for me. No more John Boehners or Mitch McConnels for me. No more ignorant rino liberals telling me not to waste my vote. I wasted my vote on many worthless arrogant and ignorant rinos who have done less and less and spent more and more money doing it and I am done with the idiots, aka, idjits of the middle class doe doe brains now in the liberal rino gopee party.

[Balding_Eagle]

Paragraph breaks are our friends.

[Politicalkiddo]

The People do not want this. I am so tired of these bureaucratic fools. Of those tyrants in black. Of that moron in the White House. A few hundred idiots get to change thousands of years of traditions against the will of millions.

[1010RD]

48 Republicans won’t defend normal marriage?

[ansel12]

Well, some Senators have “evolved”, Rand Paul is one of those.

“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues,” Paul advised. “The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues.”

[madprof98]

Not voting for that sh!t.

[Jim Noble]

“only six of 54 Republican members of the Senate signed a pro-traditional marriage legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court”

Senators can count votes like pimps can count money.

Any U.S. politician who objects to homosexual “marriages” now is finished.

This battle was over in 1970.

[Jim Noble]

Nobody believes in “traditional” (real) marriage.

What everybody believes in is gay marriage for heterosexuals (terminable at will without fault and without damages, automatic mother custody, child support for bastards). None of those things are traditional.

Marriage is now a tax deduction after a lavish party. There’s nothing traditional about it.

[cherry]

wow....you're one high and mighty one aren't you?....didn't Jesus have a word or two to say about people boasting about how good they were or how holy?.....yes, HE did...

anyway, please just do us all a favor and don't post your anti-pub diatribes or how you're going to vote for so and so third party candidate just to show em by God....

please...keep it to yourself....there are adults here and we know that life is about tough hard to make choices...

[combat_boots]

Ted Cruz.

Where was Lee? Sessions?

[kindred]

Friends are rare nowadays, but I have one and a wife and some cats who like me. And my friends I can count on one hand, and that is good.

[Rockpile]

So 48 Gutless Old Party senators are siding with the 1% against 99% of the citizenry. They are that scared of Big News & Hollywood are they?

[whistleduck]

For a stronger America;

CRUZ BACHMANN

[kindred]

Seems that way, some 48 so called republican senators, aka, rinos and liberals, support gay marriage, same as the dem perverts do.
Is there a difference between the pubs and dems anymore? I think not much.

[kindred]

The same to you, friend.

[Secret Agent Man]

Amen. Why be yoked together with them? If they go down they take you with them.

[Secret Agent Man]

For all the knobs on this site on this issue, final clarity: The republicans have left ME. I wasn’t the one who caved and wants a bigger tent at the expense of my worldview, my foundational truths and beliefs, my conscience.

[Secret Agent Man]

And if you think i am wrong. How has compromising beliefs ever hurt democrats? Look at how the countrys fallen, how liberalism has advanced via the hegelian dialectic and the delphi technique the left employs, and tell me how the LEFT is worse off for compromise?

Bullplop.

[kindred]

A lot of Christians who believe on Jesus Christ do stand for traditional marriage. The young are going to lose this country thinking that there is no God and that makes them fools for sure. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Psalm 14:
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

[bramps]

The amount of conservatives that who didn’t vote for Romney will pale in comparison to the amount that will not for the R nominee in ‘16 if it’s someone who doesn’t strongly stand for marriage being only between one man and one woman.

Call us whatever names you want, but just know that it will happen. Standing with God isn’t a tough decision on this one.

(the practical translation of that is work your butt off for Ted Cruz).