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GOP’s Alan Simpson backs gay marriage in ad
Politico ^ | 04/07/2014 | KATIE GLUECK

Posted on 04/08/2014 5:54:52 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, is making the case for a “live and let live” approach to same-sex marriage in a new television ad buy targeting Western states, just as a federal appeals court in Denver prepares to take up the issue later this week.

“Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,” Simpson, of Wyoming, says in the spot.

The six-figure buy, sponsored by the pro-gay marriage group Freedom to Marry, is slated to start airing on Tuesday on national cable channels, as well as locally in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Those states are within the geographic jurisdiction of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing a gay marriage case concerning Utah on Thursday, and is set to take up another one involving Oklahoma later this month — the cases could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.

“I’m a Republican,” Simpson says. “The party’s basic core is, government out of your life and the right to be left alone.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Kentucky; US: Oklahoma; US: Utah; US: Wyoming
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To: BarnacleCenturion

That means government should stay out of forcing businesses to cater to the sodomites.


21 posted on 04/08/2014 6:34:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GIdget2004

Hardly a surprise.

Simpson has long been a degenerate POS.


22 posted on 04/08/2014 6:37:22 AM PDT by greene66
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To: catfish1957
This is the Alan Simpson of Simpson/Mazzoli.

The law that flooded the country with 5 million illegals-turned-citizens and killed the GOP in California.

Every republican was a conservative when Reagan was president. Most, like Alan here, became 'kinder and gentler' as soon as RWR retired.

23 posted on 04/08/2014 6:37:23 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Responsibility2nd
“I’m a Republican libertarian,”

I often call myself a small ‘l’ libertarian.

though I am too conservative to be a libertarian and too libertarian to be a conservative.

suffice it to say I am a large ‘C’ Constitutionalist.

24 posted on 04/08/2014 6:40:39 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dfwgator

Right. Once you get government involved you are opening pandora’s box.

The debate will never end and gays will always demand more “rights”. Government should just stay out or the damage will be irreversible. There should be no laws even mentioning the word gay, faggot or homosexual.


25 posted on 04/08/2014 6:40:41 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Izzy Dunne
Michelle Malkin, here I come

so you must be a Mormon cause she is already married.

26 posted on 04/08/2014 6:44:22 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

maybe he lost it because Simpson-Bowles got ignored ...apocalyptic ramifications too much to bear so run to the left so you’re in line for the lifeboats.

Any takers? Just squeezing out a thought.

Specter of inevitable economic catastrophe can really mess people ( who truly understand its inevitable) up.


27 posted on 04/08/2014 6:45:05 AM PDT by BonRad (The world is full of educated derelicts-Calvin Coolidge)
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[singing] you may say he's a RINO, but he's not the only one...
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance
...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.
[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]

28 posted on 04/08/2014 6:46:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Responsibility2nd

With all due respect, libertarianism is about enforcement, not morality.


29 posted on 04/08/2014 6:47:59 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

By the power formerly vested in him by the state of Wyoming...

Thanks GIdget2004.


30 posted on 04/08/2014 6:48:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Government should just stay out?

I bet your happy as hell that DOMA and DADT have been repealed, aren’t ya?

I bet you wish FedGov would butt out of marriage too letting the State allows quuer marriages too, if they want.

Tells us. Are you for abortion too?

<==== DUmp is that way.


31 posted on 04/08/2014 6:48:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Gene Eric

Quite wrong.

Libertarianism is about UNENFORCEMENT. Bordering on immoral anarchy.


32 posted on 04/08/2014 6:50:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: GIdget2004

translation - he needs more money and is not getting it elsewhere.


33 posted on 04/08/2014 6:52:55 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Let's make Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments a reality!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
“The party’s basic core is, government out of your life and the right to be left alone.”

I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.

34 posted on 04/08/2014 6:55:34 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: GIdget2004
“Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,” Simpson, of Wyoming, says in the spot.

What about my sister? What not, HATER?!?

35 posted on 04/08/2014 6:58:13 AM PDT by montag813
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To: MNnice
I always thought he was a little squirrely.

Maybe he had one inserted.

36 posted on 04/08/2014 6:58:44 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: MulberryDraw

Simpson is 82. Time for the home.


37 posted on 04/08/2014 6:59:01 AM PDT by Pit1 (Obama is the big pile in the road.)
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To: GIdget2004

Eh....Simpson likes to hear himself talk. He sits in his house and reads the dictionary out loud.


38 posted on 04/08/2014 6:59:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Viennacon

Not a “conservative”. Republicans left the rails some time ago.


39 posted on 04/08/2014 7:01:34 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Responsibility2nd

Government can’t ban gay marriage. Every ban is getting struck down by the courts. Right now government is promoting and encouraging gay marriage.

If you want government to stay involved you are either for gay marriage or you are delusional about what’s going on.


40 posted on 04/08/2014 7:02:00 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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