G.O.P. Senator Who Voted for Gay Marriage Concedes Defeat

NY Times ^

[Arthurio]

December 13, 2012

G.O.P. Senator Who Voted for Gay Marriage Concedes Defeat

By THOMAS KAPLAN

A Republican state senator who provided one of the pivotal votes to legalize same-sex marriage in New York State conceded defeat on Thursday in a three-way race where a conservative-leaning candidate siphoned away thousands of votes.

The outcome means that only one of the four Republican senators who went against their caucus to support allowing gay couples to marry will return to Albany.

The senator who was defeated, Stephen M. Saland of Poughkeepsie, congratulated his Democratic opponent, Terry W. Gipson, after election officials in Dutchess County finished tallying paper ballots in a vote-counting process that had dragged on for weeks because of legal challenges.

Mr. Saland lost the support of the state’s Conservative Party because of his vote over same-sex marriage, and he barely won the Republican primary in September. The challenger who nearly beat him, Neil A. Di Carlo, stayed in the race as the candidate of the Conservative Party, and ended up winning more than 14 percent of the vote on Election Day.

[SandyInSeattle]

Votes have consequences.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I am so devastated.

[Gasshog]

Aww tuff titty

[concerned about politics]

NY didn't get to vote on homosexual "marriage." It was forced upon them against their will.
This man deserves to be defeated. He decided he wanted to be a dictator rather than a representative.

[Yosemitest]

Damn straight "Votes have consequences" !
So called "Establishment Republicans" had better NOT forget that !

Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.

It was given by our Heavenly Father to test us
to see ... if we will OBEY our Heavenly Father,
and abide by His commandments, statues, and ordinances.

Someone once asked

"Why are they [homosexuals] all so angry?"

The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE".

rep·ro·bate \ˈre-prə-ˌbāt\ a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.


Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6.




2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.

They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.

3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3.

And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

But will we OBEY our Heavenly Father?

[RckyRaCoCo]

Guess he has to pack it in.

[Venturer]

AMF ex Senator Stephen M. Saland of Poughkeepsie

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

[Chode]

pandering to the filthy 1% is what RATS do... at least a RAT can't stab you in the back

[fwdude]

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Actually, I want it to hit him. Here, I'll help with my size 11.

[SaraJohnson]

It makes Rinos really mad when they see their powerlessness to control their GOP base. Rather than adopting the cause of constitutional freedom (which globalists find uncontrolable and therefore, unwanted) they try to adopt the Left’s social agenda to weaken their own base and rooted freedom ideology.