RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to GOP: Don’t go ‘Old Testament’ on gays

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Cheryl K. Chumley

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Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued some words of advice for fellow GOPers: Get in the 21st century with same-sex-marriage issues.

“We do have a platform, and we adhere to that platform,” Mr. Priebus said in a USA Today video. “But it doesn’t mean that we divide and subtract people from our party” who favor gay marriage.

“I don’t believe we need to act like Old Testament heretics,” he said in the USA Today video. Rather, Republicans “have to strike a balance between principle and grace and respect.”

His statements come as the U.S. Supreme Court is due to hear two cases on gay marriage — one on a California-voted ban on same-sex marriage, and the other on the legalities of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans the federal government from giving marriage benefits to same-sex couples.

His statements also come at a time when politicians from both sides of the political aisle are renouncing their past objections to gay marriage. On the Republican side, Sen. Rob Portman – an Ohio conservative with traditional values — just flipped on gay marriage, in part, he said, because of the recent revelations of homosexuality by one of his sons.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

GOP going soft on the Gay Marriage issue Ping!

[SoConPubbie]

Admin, If this shouldn’t be in the Front Page News section, please move to where it should be.

[Secret Agent Man]

reince, the SODOMITES are the heretics.

heretics believe/teach incorrect doctrines.

more and more, you just can’t fix stupid.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Flingwingflyer to Reince Priebus. STOP CALLING MY HOUSE ASKING FOR MONEY! I’m an Indie now.

[Secret Agent Man]

this is rnc setting the stage to cave. they still don’t get it that it won’thelp them win over a single democrat or libtard.

[max americana]

God went “Old Testament” on Sodom and Gomorrah, Rience. This clown is making Michael Steele look like a genius.

[eekitsagreek]

And they will wonder why, as they become democrat-lite, that the base stops supporting them.

[Gene Eric]

Shut up, jackass.

[SoConPubbie]

I think it is time for a divorce from the GOP.

[dwg2]

Why not? It is inevitable. It’s going to happen. We are in the last days. Everything that was bad and evil is now good. Everything that was once good and moral is now bad. But the Bible tells us to beware about good and bad switched. We are to remain faithful and true, no matter what society says.

[MaxMax]

Well, there goes the Presidency in 2016. Mickey mouse could beat the GOP now.

The Libs have infiltrated the GOP and they are being welcomed by the posers already there.

[Blue Highway]

Good old Prince Reibus selling out the Republican party. He learned his methods well from his predecessor Michael Steele. What a bunch of losers as the head of the RNC starting with Jim Greer who preceeded Steele. Greer a criminal that got off easy with a plea deal.

I hope Prius Reibus goes the way of the Chevy Volt and soon.

[Carry_Okie]

We don’t need the Old Testament to tell us that gay people raising kids is a bad idea when hard data on adult outcomes demonstrate it amply.

[magna carta]

Paging France:
http://www.generation-identitaire.com/

[cva66snipe]

OK I’ll go New Testament as in saying read Romans Chapter One.

[max americana]

You mean you’re still married to that hag?

[donna]

“I don’t believe we need to act like Old Testament heretics,” he said

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means:

her·e·tic

1. a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.

[ansel12]

The catch phrase on the road to the gates of hell and to the end of civilization is, “I’m libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics”.

[reaganaut]

I’m not surprised. Things like this and Romney are why I left the GOP.