I personally think that gay marraige is a great issue to run against because deep down inside the dems want it and most people find it abhorrent.
Let's GAIN seats in November!! Really irritate the leftists!!! :)
What I'd like to see is more creative votes like a vote banning the distribution of sexual literature discussing homosexuality, bisexual, and transexuality to students in public schools. Also a ban on the use of public facilities for sexually oriented clubs or organizations. I'm sure most Americans would support a lot more than just a marriage amendment. I personally would like to see an amendment to the Constitution defining sexual obscenity as any sexual behavior outside of a heterosexual monogamous relationship. I believe that once such a definition is written into the Constitution then all kinds of "freedom of expression" arguments become useless concerning sexual issues as far as the courts are concerned and communities can once again be free to exercise their political freedoms to place reasonable limits on sexual expression regardless of what form it comes in whether it be gay rights parades or hard core pornography.
Forget the votes that weren't going to pass, everyone knew weren't going to pass, and they used to try and rally conservatives as though they were that easily impressed by no action.
THIS VETO meant something. Inability to override the VETO meant something. Because it was real. It had real consequences. All good. THAT one act, yes, improved conservatives moods.
Still, Mr. Backlin warned that Republicans will "lose all that goodwill" from values voters if the Senate version of immigration reform is signed into law.
Since when did people that want the border enforced become "values" voters? Yes, the issue encompasses values, but it cross every other concern as well. IMO, sounds as though some are trying to minimize the mass disgust across all boundaries on this issue by confining it to one increasingly cluttered category.
I have no problem with "values" voters, I am one, but I don't like mischarterization of issues. It's pretty well known that marriage, abortion, freedom to practice our religion without permission from the ACLU, ten commandments allowed display...these are "values" issues. They have wide appeal with the public, wider support, but I'm not going to allow them to link illegal immigration in this category. It stands on it's own separately.