Posted on 08/21/2014 6:09:57 PM PDT by BurningOak
Nashville mayor Karl Dean went one step further in his support for same-sex marriage Thursday. He has officially joined the group Mayors for the Freedom to Marry — the first mayor in Tennessee to do so.
Dean signed a marriage equality statement that says allowing same-sex couples to marry is good for everyone. In a press release, Dean said he wants Nashville to respect “individual dignity.”
“Embracing and celebrating our growing diversity makes our city stronger,” he wrote. “Nashville needs to continue in that direction, and it’s my hope that joining this effort will help us do that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nashvillepublicradio.org ...
Nashville hasn’t had a Republican Mayor since Grover Cleveland’s 1st term. We’ve had nothing but ever-increasing leftist Democrat Mayors for 4 decades, with Karl “Marx” Dean being the worst to date. He married into Republican wealth and used his late father-in-law’s money to buy his offices.
Mainly because the GOP never had much of a presence here (what influence it had was used on trying to elect pro-business Democrats).
Where’s the dignity for the children who will be denied a mother or a father?
This mayor supports homosexuals, why doesn’t he support children? Because they don’t vote.
Shocking!! errr not. Nashville is nothing more than Austin of the North. College town with disgusting Professors polluting teenagers minds. Their Parents did a poor job preparing them for life.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Yes, Karl Dean is a liberal Democrat.
Not surprising, he is as liberal as they come.
He is term limited and is showing his true colors since he can’t be re-elected.
We’re not quite to Austin, yet. Fortunately, the cities get outvoted by the sane rest of the state.
He thinks he’s going to follow in Bredesen’s footsteps in 2018.
Because some people in government are now hostile to marriage as God defined it, in order to protect godly marriage we must remove the power of the State to define and regulate marriage. Then anyone will be perfectly free to enter into whatever relationship they want. However, they will not be able to call upon the police power of the state to force me to recognize a “marriage” that I know is theologically illegitimate and morally repugnant.
If we remove government from marriage and return it to the private sphere where it came from, lesbians can still marry
each other, but they won’t be able to use government to force me to sell them wedding cake or artfully photograph their “marriage”. They will be free to do as they please without being able to coerce anyone else about their private
affair.
He also thinks that a federal judge will invalidate the Tennessee ban on homosexual marriage and he can claim his support is a moot point.
One could say that their press is disproportionate with respect to their overall representation in larger society.
According to Wikipedia, Dean claims to be "Catholic" (psst.. Bishop of Nashville... I found a good candidate for excommunication!) but he was raised in Massachuttes so that explains it. I'm guessing he's to the left of the likes of Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Daley.
Now, if the mayor of Provo, Utah starts pimping gay marriage, then we're REALLY doomed.
The Southern Baptist Convention has its HQ in Nashville. Doesn't the UMC have some sort of national presence in Nashville also?
When he ran in 2007 when it was an open seat (fortunately, we have a two-term limit), he was the candidate of the leftist rich elites in the city (ironically carrying the more Republican & White areas) while ex-Congressman Bob Clement was the more Conservative-Populist (who carried the bulk of Nashville and non-White areas).
It really threw our local rag, the Tennessean, which always enjoys playing up class & racial divisions (blaming Republicans), but they backed Dean to the hilt. When it came time to do the post-vote analysis, they largely ignored or played down that the “multicultural” parts of Nashville they pander to went overwhelmingly against Dean. Dean is the “rich Republican country-clubber” stereotype of the leftist media, but it’s all good when he’s a Democrat.
The 3rd place finisher (now in Nashville, we actually have a runoff for Mayor) was the Black centrist Vice-Mayor Howard Gentry. In fact, we were potentially set to elect two Blacks to the top jobs in Nashville, with Gentry and a Social Conservative Carolyn Baldwin Tucker, a Councilwoman. The Tennessean would’ve had orgasms at such a spectacle, but they wanted two White moonbats, Dean (who was then the Public Defender, which is usually occupied by a left-winger soft on crime) and Diane Neighbors, a Council kook. To them, Negroes are only entitled to be Marxists, but veer from that as Gentry & Tucker did, and they get ignored.
The worry for next year is that we may get an even more left-wing Mayor (the last non-leftist was Beverly Briley, who was our first consolidated Metro Mayor from 1963-75, whom I was born under, but he left office when I was all of 1). All of them have been lousy since, from Richard Fulton (1975-87) (who was formerly one of the most left-wing members of Congress from the South during his 12-year stint coinciding with Briley (and practiced his own cronyism stuff too parochial to describe)...
Bill Boner, a Clintonesque clone (clown) served a sex-drenched single term (1987-91) after an undistinguished 8 years in Congress (where he quit just ahead of an investigation into his lack of ethics). He was replaced by Pharoah Phil Bredesen (1991-99), our first carpetbagger Mayor from the Northeast (who actually had run for the Massachusetts Legislature in the ‘70s). He embarked on a spending spree (along with an explosion in the crime rate) and after failing to win Governor in 1994, flagrantly violated campaign spending laws to buy the office in 2002 by a narrow margin.
He was followed by a second carpetbagger Northerner, Bill Purcell (1999-2007), who had been a state legislator and Democrat hatchet-man (helping disenfranchise the GOP-voting majority in the state with the redistricting). I have nothing positive to say about him. Fortunately, TN’s hard swing to the GOP by the end of his tenure all but killed his chances at the Governorship. I believe he has since left the state.
Dean (2007-2015) now seems to be suffering from some sort of grandiose cognitive dissonance, thinking his moonbat views will play statewide by 2018. His money (or rather, his dead father-in-law’s) does make him semi-formidable. The upside for the GOP is that he has some of Bill Boner’s personal appearance traits, such as rather unkempt, always sweaty and dirty looking (even when he’s dressed well). However, Boner was somewhat charming (much in the style of Bubba Clinton), a loveable cad. Dean doesn’t have any charm.
As for his alleged Catholicism, it’s obviously more of the Cafeteria sort, de rigeur with Democrats for the better part of 4 decades now.
I am willing to discuss this as a desirable path philosophically, but it will never ever happen in real life. Put simply, Democrats will not go for shrinking government power, and if GOP is too weak to support status quo man woman marriage, they are not strong enough to overhaul the whole institution.
It’s all about the entertainment industry.
Let’s hope that good Tennesseeans will show their disapproval by making this term his last.
Of course, Nashville is to Tennessee as Austin is to Texas, a pocket of putrid liberalism. Maybe they like this Mayor.
Over 20, really. There was a reason that DOMA was passed in 1996. The anarchist rumblings were loud even then.
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