Posted on 12/11/2012 9:48:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Conservative firebrand Glenn Beck has joined a growing chorus of Republican commentators in defending gay marriage, laying out a strong case for ending government opposition to letting same-sex couples wed.
"Let me take the pro-gay marriage people and the religious people — I believe that there is a connecting dot there that nobody is looking at, and that's the Constitution," Beck said during a recent segment of his online talk show. "The question is not whether gay people should be married or not. The question is why is the government involved in our marriage?"
While Beck's defense of gay marriage may seem surprising, given his far-right political views and audience, it is actually not new. Earlier this year, Beck said that he has the "same opinion on gay marriage as President Barack Obama" and does not see same-sex unions as a "threat to America."
Still, Beck's public renewal of his support for gay marriage comes at a politically significant moment for the GOP, which is working to reshape its message to appeal to a changing electorate. A Gallup survey released last week found that 53 percent of Americans are in favor of legalizing gay marriage, a number that has been steadily growing for the past decade.
Moreover, by couching his support for gay marriage in a libertarian framework, Beck makes the case for the right to look past differences on social issues in order to broaden their coalition to include all limited government conservatives.
"What we need to do, I think, as people who believe in the Constitution, is to start looking for allies who believe in the Constitution and expand our own horizon," Beck said. "We would have the ultimate big tent."
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I disagree with Beck’s position.
But I don’t think he is actually defending gay “marriage”. He is adopting a neutral position.
Beck’s position ignores human nature, changes centuries of natural law for the benefit of a very small subset of 2% of the population and presents very difficult concerns for adoption.
But it is not support of gay “marriage”
Who ever thought Beck, a Mormon, knew or obeyed the things of God?
Same sex marriage is satan’s idea of marriage and Beck agrees with that.
The LDS church will permit gay marriage within 20 years. With their polygamous history, they’ve already scrapped the one man/one woman original design.
Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.
Until then, they will use government to over-right your Religions tenets, starting with marriage.
For those of you who are slow of thought, that is what Glenn was say. Nothing more. Nothing less...
Supporting gay marriage doesn’t take government out of the equation. It uses government to force the rest of us to recognize something we don’t recognize.
It isn’t a limitation on the power of government; it is an further intrusion of the power of government into an area where it has not previously intruded, to overturn a moral tradition of thousands of years of standing.
What if their church or religion says they can?
Exactly.
Their religion can say that a cat is an eagle but doesn't mean the cat will be able to fly. Reality is reality.
No, the question is why do you consider yourself a conservative.
You just lost me, Glenn ... for good unless you repent.
RE: Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.
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That implies that all tax deductions for those who are “married” are out the window.
How about immigration? Should government recognize an immigrant’s spouse if he/she were to be given a green card?
My point is this — IN PRACTICE, how do you get government OUT of marriage when they DO have to recognize certain unions in their day to day operations?
I wonder how Beck’s fangirls will defend this. Will we be called “haters” because we don’t agree with this idiot?
In America we all knew what marriage was until Mormonism came along, then by 1862 the federal government had to step in to stop polygamy.
Today Mormonism, Islam, any cult, any homosexual church or new religion, can define it for themselves, if there is no common definition.
Since marriage has to be recognized from state to state, there has to be some agreed on definitions.
Government seems to be involved in marriage already, since they are trying to force priests and pastors to perform marriages, and they are passing laws that say, in effect, “you vill do this, und you vill like it!”
Tonight I CANCEL my Subscription the “The Blaze”. NO MORE BECK FOR ME EVER!
Quite a chasm of difference between not wanting government involved in marriage at all and supporting gay marriage. But then that's totally lost on all you "conservatives" isn't it.
You know. Conservatives being the people oppposed to oppressive govt. Or are you just opposed to the liberal's idea of oppressive govt?
He's not really proposing this. He's just making noises which ultimately boil down to: sanity must yield to insanity -- and then, oh, by the way, law, medicine and education will be bent to the agenda, dissenters will be hounded, marginalized and prosecuted, social organizations and human services will be queered, church-related institutions will be beaten down to the ground, out Kindergartners will be forbidden to assume that Family Day means Moms and Dads, and our 5th graders will be memorizing the key principles of dildo hygiene and safe sodomy.
"Other than that, of course, it doesn't affect a thing."
My respect for Glenn Beck just sank to a new low: not because he's wicked, but because he's stupid.
I never cared for beck,always thought he was a phony conservative and this proves it to me.He just cares about the money.Too many so called conservatives are nothing but rinos.
There is this thing called “family law”. It deals with issues of child custody, tutorship, financial and social responsibilities and so on. So that dependent children and sometimes spouses are cared for, healthy and hopefully not utterly ignorant. Every civilization has family law, and every government deals with it, either well or poorly. Not dealing with it at all is an example of dealing with it poorly.
For those of you who are slow of thought.
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