Politico is right: Gay marriage will destroy the Republican Party

http://www.gopusa.com ^ | June 2, 2014 | Bryan Fischer

[NKP_Vet]

Earlier this week Politico featured a David Lampo piece, "Gay Marriage Will Destroy the GOP." Politico is exactly right that gay marriage will destroy the GOP – but for precisely the opposite reason Lampo imagines.

In his article, Lampo argues that if the GOP does not embrace gay marriage, it is doomed. The truth of the matter is exactly the opposite: it is embracing gay marriage that will doom the GOP and consign it to the ash heap of history.

Politico wants us to believe the tide of history is inevitable, and the GOP either must get on board the gay love boat or get swept out to sea where it will disappear beneath the waves.

It would be one thing if Politico had the best interests of the Republican Party at heart, but it does not.

[Clemenza]

At least five states have approved via ballot initiative and a few more via the legislature (such as New York and New Jersey).

[nathanbedford]

It is inevitable because it was lost it in the faculty lounges of Harvard and Yale Law School it was lost in the faculty lounge of Columbia School of Journalism. It was lost in the the media and it was is being lost in the courts.

A fresh example that culture trumps politics.

Indeed, culture trumps popular political will as we see referenda representing the direct will of the people set aside by courts. Only later do we begin to see the polling conform to our elitists shaping of the culture.

But ultimately as I said in my first post, it was lost because only the most attenuated connection could be made between permitting homosexual marriage and direct harm to voters' vital interests.