Posted on 01/22/2015 3:06:32 PM PST by EternalVigilance
The Republican Party of Iowa announced today the hiring of six new staff members in a press release. But, the past comments of one of the new employees, Communications Director Charlie Szold, have surprised a number of Iowa conservatives.
The Iowa GOP’s press release highlighted Szold’s efforts on Richard Tisei’s congressional campaign in Massachusetts. Tisei ran in the Sixth Congressional District of Massachusetts in a campaign that aimed to be historic because he was running as an openly gay Republican. Tisei and his partner Bernie Starr were “married” in 2013.
Tisei was endorsed by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which seeks to increase LGBT representation. Christian conservative organizations such as the Family Research Council, the National Organization for Marriage, and Citizen Link all objected to Tisei’s candidacy because of his stated positions in support of gay marriage.
“We cannot in good conscience urge our members and fellow citizens to support candidates like … Tisei …” their letter to Republican Party leadership stated. “They are wrong on critical, foundational issues of importance to the American people. Worse, as occupants of high office they will secure a platform in the media to advance their flawed ideology and serve as terrible role models for young people who will inevitably be encouraged to emulate them.”
The letter also called the candidates “antithetical” to the Republican Party’s platform. The National Organization for Marriage went so far as to encourage voters to support Democrat Seth Moulton.
In an email to the Huffington Post, Szold suggested the GOP should focus on economic issues instead of issues like marriage:
“Richard has never been afraid to take on members of his own party. When Mitt Romney was governor, Richard looked him in the eye and told the governor he was wrong about marriage equality.”
In a separate article, The Hill published a quote from Szold about the issue as well:
“It’s extremely encouraging to see someone like Richard have the opportunity to present his Republican vision for the country, and that there is a place in the party for people who are pro-marriage equality.”
Robert Morris Group President Craig Bergman, a long-time political consultant in Iowa and presidential politics, said that with the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a case on gay marriage this summer, American is standing at the verge of a “Roe v. Wade of gay marriage” ruling.
“Republicans like (Szold) believe the issue may be settled, but within months it may become the biggest division within the party as the ruling is likely to eviscerate the religious liberties of Americans,” he said. “So-called ‘gay marriage’ is wholly incompatible with the tenets of religious liberty and religious conscious. You can have one or the other.”
Bergman said Americans may soon see the end of thousands of years of Judeo Christian ethic and the end of true religious liberty in America.
“It is liberals and compromised Republicans that are on the wrong side of history,” he said.
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Hoefling said the hiring of Szold “shows once again that those who are currently in charge of the GOP don’t really care what the base of the party thinks or believes, or what the platform says.”
“They may pay lip service when it’s politically convenient, but they obviously have no intention of taking any real action to address the most pressing moral problems we face as a state and a nation,” he said. “Personnel is policy.”
The folks who made this hire are in charge of the opening phase of the 2016 presidential process.
How do you like that?
Unfortunately nobody pays attention to the policy making wing of the GOP and liberals are free to have their way with us.
Mitt Romney’s Niece is one of the liberals running for GOP chair in Michigan.
Sodomy was, is and always will be an abomination and must be abolished. Restore the Biblical principles of the Founders! Let God-given freedom ring!
Amen.
“Sodomy was, is and always will be an abomination and must be abolished.”
I’m not sure how we’ll ever abolish it, but it certainly shouldn’t be encouraged.
You’d think that they could find some STRAIGHT PEOPLE to work for them.
Almost as bad as the national party.
Republicans/Democrats, a set of twins, one wearing a blue shirt and one wearing a red shirt. Otherwise, they are identical.
Its going to stay that way till conservative wise up and seize control from the county level up.
The party policy making structure makes the decisions on who will be supported and how elections will be run and they get virtually no attention from conservatives.
The blowback grows.
Massively updated and expanded:
Deace’s site is covering it now too.
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