Posted on 12/12/2013 8:41:08 AM PST by kobald
For years, American opinion on gay marriage has been shifting. Now lawmakers are in a mad dash to catch up.
In less than two weeks, seven senators--all from moderate or Republican-leaning states--announced their support, dropping one by one like dominos. Taken together, their proclamations reflected a profound change in the American political calculus: For the first time, elected officials from traditionally conservative states are starting to feel it's safer to back gay marriage than risk being the last to join the cause...
"They're reflecting what they're seeing in the polls--except the most extreme of the Republican base," former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who supports gay marriage, said in an interview. "From a purely political perspective, if you want to be a leader of the future, you look at the next generation. They are overwhelmingly in favor of this."..
Among Republicans, whose party platform opposes gay marriage, the shift in position has mostly been limited to former lawmakers and prominent strategists. Still, a distinct change in tone was palpable this month when Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican whom presidential candidate Mitt Romney vetted last year as a potential running mate, declared his support, citing a personal conversion stemming from his son coming out to him as gay.
Rather than blast Portman for flouting party dogma or failing an ideological litmus test, Republican leaders shrugged, indicating that even if Republicans, as a party, aren't prepared back gay marriage, they won't hold it against those in their ranks who do...
"It's like immigration. The party realizes they are on the losing side of some of these issues," said former Rep. Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican...
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Push an agenda much NOOB?!
Fire rained down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. Does America think she will escape the wrath of God, having turned from her righteousness to crimes against nature and God? I think not.
Right off the top they’ve launched a new attack on tea party conservative RNC Committeeman Dave Agema for his comments on gay marriage and Obamacare. The taxpayers should not be forced to pay for a disease that results from a poor lifestyle choice.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/12/dave_agemas_full_statements_pu.html
Posting an article from March 28?
Fools.
Oh, and possibly IBTZ.
The date on the top of the page is Dec 12.
There is no new cultural or new political landscape as the first sentence of the article is a lie.
“For years, American opinion on gay marriage has been shifting.”
Americans are now, have been and forever will be against gay marriage.
Republicans voters will not support any candidate who promotes the Gay Agenda.
Never. Ever.
Watch what happens to Portman when he tries to get re-elected.
Yes, let’s shoot the messenger, that always works.
/sarc
Maneuver for position?
None of their maneuverings nor gutless caving will make homosexuality more acceptable to conservatives. The behavior adopted by filthy sodomites and their fecal obsessions/ingestion is unnatural and repellent. Republicans who abandon principles in order to pander to perverted queers can’t change that fact.
That’s not what the poll numbers indicate.
Wasn't his only claim to fame is that he got an invitation to speak at a GOP convention (2004, wasn't it?) merely because he was a fudgepacker?
JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press Published: March 28, 2013 6:07PM
Another myth perpetuated by the liberal media, while it is true that hard-blue states (most who have already legalized gay marriage) have become even more strongly pro-gay marriage (think New York, California) and tend to be bigger and have larger population so they skew nationwide polls. The Red and Purple states haven't budged. In fact in my home state of West Virginia, opposition to gay marriage has actually INCREASED from 68% in 2008 to 74% in 2013. So don't fall for this myth that the entire nation is on the verge of going pro-gay marriage. It is propaganda. The media hopes by promoting it, it will become a self fulfilling prophesy and those opposed to gay marriage will just shut up, thinking they have lost.
IBTZ
I will stay on the losing side of this.
I do not care if millions of Americans accept homo’s marrying each other. It is a sickness of the mind.A perversion. accept this and you accept all perversions.
“Another myth perpetuated by the liberal media, while it is true that hard-blue states (most who have already legalized gay marriage) have become even more strongly pro-gay marriage (think New York, California) and tend to be bigger and have larger population so they skew nationwide polls. The Red and Purple states haven’t budged. In fact in my home state of West Virginia, opposition to gay marriage has actually INCREASED from 68% in 2008 to 74% in 2013.”
Indeed. Those states which now have same-sex “marriage” are all bright blue. Low hanging fruit (no pun intended). So same-sex “marriage” has hit a brick wall. Unless courts intervene (a big if), you won’t see this happen in purple or red states, at least not for a long time.
Oh by all means please do. Rush in to catch up. I feel so giddy and warm inside.
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