Posted on 10/24/2013 12:53:44 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Typical pos progressive.
Tom Ridge is the Republican governor who made it possible for abortionist Kermit Gosnell to get away with murdering full-term babies for so many years—all in the name of “tolerance.” He is beyond despicable.
I thought the same thing.
I had this conversation with my high school senior son who was speaking poorly of the Tea Party. I said do you even know that TEA stands for? When I told him the main gist of the TEA Party was lower taxes, smaller government, and balanced budgets, he said “Oh...I didn’t know that!”. I told him not to judge things he knows nothing about.
Creative way to trash the TEA Party and it will be effective. I look for more Reps and Dems to tie not only the gay marriage issue to the TEA Party, but the abortion issue to the TEA Party.
Maybe Ridge should bend over and let one of the Homos drive him home, then speak about tolerance.
If tolerance is your greatest virtue Tom, then you have no others.
Oh yeah...the GOP “Big Tent” that is open to all EXCEPT the Tea Party folks. You know, real conservatives.
Tom Ridge looks like a poofer anyway.
The Dems have infiltrated the party, and they're in our faces about it, openly admitting it.
Code red alert! Code red alert! This guy Ridge is a liberal buffoon, and always has been. Bob
Aren’t people who approach politics as pro-homo doing exactly what Ridge is ranting about with social issues?
For the GOP to endorse gay issues is to promote killing more young men. - Check out these stats, then back away as far as you can - http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html
Right. Kermit the Trog flourished under Ridge! Bob
Practicval tolerance is everyone shutting up about their sexual acts. We don’t want to hear about it. Move forward with the business of running the Country.
He also gave us the execrable DHS and TSA and apparently believes that terrorism can be stopped if we just prevent Granny from taking along that 4 oz tube of Polident.
Businesses are being shut down, people are being fired for not celebrating homosexuality.
How about some tolerance FROM them, Tom??
If ever we needed a federal marriage amendment, it is NOW. But there has never been more silence on this need in the last decade like there is now. Deeply discouraging.
I don't see it that way. If would could have done it a decade ago, we WOULD have. But the sole libertarian argument against it at that time was that "we don't need such a radical solution until the situation calls for an exigent enactment." Now that we need it, and the situation IS exigent now, those same naysayers seem to be nowhere around.
Now? We don't have the states to ratify such an Amendment even if by some miracle we could get it through Congress.
I think you'd be surprised at the support for such an amendment, especially with the numerous stories being reported of the vicious bullying by homosexuals of private businesses and individuals over religious and personal objection to this contrivance. A recently conducted poll showed that somewhere over 85% of Americans thought that private business SHOULD NOT be forced to violate their religious beliefs regarding real marriage. If this issue were properly tied to the marriage redefinition push, you can bet that we'd see at least a 15% return to support for real marriage.
That's dead and done. Not going to happen. We need to focus on carving out all the protections and exemptions we can.
Protections and exemptions are just as likely to be passed as an Amendment. If you haven't noticed, almost NONE of the recent pushes for redefining marriage in states offer ANY protections for businesses or religious objectors as they did only a couple of years ago. New York was the last one (adding these "protections" was critical to the bill's passage,) and those "protections" were tenuous at best, as they were constructed to be severable at the whim of a court.
Besides, the lawlessness that is rampant now will not respect any puny "religious exemptions" anymore than they respect state constitutions and DOMA's, which they are running rough-shod over.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
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