Posted on 03/11/2014 2:08:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you were wondering why CPAC was so light on traditional-marriage rhetoric from the podium, here’s why. An event populated mainly by young conservatives and libertarians isn’t a good venue for that anymore.
You’ll hear more of it, I’m sure, at the convention two years from now. But at the rate we’re going, probably not too much more. Where will the 30-49 group be in 2016?
The most striking numbers there, actually, are how small the differences are between various Democratic age groups. It’s an astounding consensus to have 18-year-old and 65-year-old Dems both above 60 percent support and within 15 points of each other on a practice that was barely on the cultural radar 20 years ago. Makes me wonder how many senior-citizen votes the GOP picked up over the last decade as the 65+ demographic sorted itself out. And how many younger votes it lost.
Pew’s not the only pollster lately showing majority support for gay marriage among young GOPers, either. A few weeks ago, the NYT/CBS poll found 56 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 in favor of legalized SSM. (Just 29 percent of Republicans age 45 or older agreed.) That’s a rare case of sharp disagreement on an issue among different conservative age demographics. The same poll found the two groups within five points of each other on guns, abortion, the minimum wage, and ObamaCare, The only other prominent outlier was — ta da — marijuana legalization, where 43 percent of younger Republicans support legalization versus only 28 percent of older ones.
Exit question: Given Republican sensitivity to changing demographics and the fact that millennials might be more gettable next time than last, is there a single major 2016 candidate who’s likely to spend much time on gay marriage on the stump? The only one I can think of is Huckabee, who may calculate that his only path to victory is consolidating social conservatives. Everyone else, including social cons like Cruz and Rubio, will probably take a federalist approach to traditional marriage.
“All my kids and kids in law, who are all under the age of 40, have no problem with homosexual marriage.”
Same with my kids. A few years ago when we discussed this, I told them not only were they fortunate to grow up in a country before homo-marriage, but that they and their kids will reap the rotten fruits of their beliefs. A year or so after, at least one of them thought it was outrageous when it was being reported that Bert & Ernie (Sesame Street) should come out as a homos. “Rotten fruit” was all I could say.
considering that I am almost 52 now...probably will not be having any. But I would love to adopt someday.
Four states have approved this by ballot and others have legalized it va the legislative process. The meme of “unelected judges overruling the will of the majority” is very ten years ago.
You miss the point: SOCIETY as a whole has grown to except it as the culture has changed. Blaming “the rich” like an Occupier is nonsensicle in this case.
They can’t stand Obama, they believe in God, are pro-life, they want lower taxes, think Obamacare stinks, and on an on. My daughter voted for Buchanan in whatever year he ran. But homosexual marriage they see as nothing wrong. How do you define conservatism?
You know nothing about my family. Nowadays, homosexuals are right out there, and my kids know some of their schoolmates are queers. They have friends who either are queer or hang out with queers. They see it from a different perspective than when I was growing up. My kids are God-fearing, gun loving, pro-life, Obama and Obamacare haters, and hate paying taxes. They don’t believe in welfare, food stamps, or other forms of payouts. They are conservative as the day is long, but are misguided in this one area.
You can think what you want, but I know my kids better than you do, so keep your judgment of them to yourself. I’m glad you’re a perfect person, so go pat yourself on the back.
The root cause is the sexual revolution, spread of pornography, and corresponding corruption of marriage from God's design.
Most everyone I know under 40 could care less about whether gay marriage is legal or not. Not even on their radar screen.
I already know what God says about this issue. I find it disgusting behavior which can only lead to bad consequences. My kids went to Christian schools and were taught the Bible. But the homosexual influences in this world have fogged their thinking and opinions. Do you do everything that the Bible says? You have never strayed or were misguided in your thinking? If you say you have not, then congratulations. You are the first perfect person I have ever spoken with.
The message ought to be, I would aver, “God wants to be your friend but you are smacking Him in the face” rather than “ohhhh, how offended we are.”
Well, this is a rather deep hole that Satan’s digging in the national soul. (Hey that even rhymes.)
Anyone who has a business and wants to opt into the tradition of family benefits gets shanghaied into the issue of who the state deems married. The baptism in soul numbing sewage is well under way. One could opt out of that tradition, at some cost. But then taxes are going to support the same thing, far from the Romans 13 mission.
Being “okay with ‘gay marriage’” has some very serious knock-on effects. It isn’t just live and let live when folks shack up. A good small-l libertarian will find this stuff to be anathema.
Yes this stuff does yield a pleasure and at its height the kick is amazing. But that’s like getting an arc light by shorting out your breaker panel. Destructive and shortsighted. Drug habits (which also are rife) could be compared.
That said, trying to keep the lid on Pandora’s box by main force of law is going to fail. We need to be bending our knee towards God and doing what God shows us is right, whether or not anybody ever bothered to pass a law about it or not.
“The root cause is the sexual revolution, spread of pornography, and corresponding corruption of marriage from God’s design.”
Peddled by public educations and MSM. They ignore God’s warning of judgment.
All true, yet they did not start it; Mammon, they're in it for the money.
My observations as well.
Romans 1: 18-32. Public ‘schools’, the media, and the churches are ALL complicit.
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