I might show up for the unicorn.
Posted on 04/21/2015 7:43:46 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Are you now, or were you ever, willing to attend a same-sex “wedding”? That seems to be the question lighting up the Republican presidential field, as GOP hopefuls who may one day have their finger on the nuclear button are asked the query over and over again.
So far, the Republican hopefuls' answers are yes, no, I have (sort of), and...unclear.
The media began by asking Florida's U.S. senator, Marco Rubio, if he would attend a homosexual 'wedding' ceremony, especially if he were invited by a relative or close friend.
“If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events,” Rubio told Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV's America program.
Rubio, who became the third Republican to throw his hat in the ring last week, likened attending a same-sex “marriage” to attending the second marriage of a divorced friend. “If someone gets divorced, I’m not going to stop loving them or having them a part of our lives,” he said.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – who has not yet formally announced his candidacy yet is considered a front-runner – said that he attended a same-sex reception, but not a ceremony. “I haven’t been to a [homosexual] 'wedding,' that’s true,” he said, “even though my position on marriage is still that’s defined between a man and a woman, and I support the Constitution of the state.”
“But for someone I love, we’ve been at a reception,” he added.
A series of candidates and potential candidates have faced similar hypotheticals.
Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, a libertarian-leaning Republican who strongly supported Mitt Romney in previous primaries, asked two contenders “a meta-question.” Is it more important to know whether a candidate would attend a homosexual wedding or whether a president will “destroy the Islamic State before it throws hundreds of thousands of gay men to their deaths”?
Former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has said he is considering another presidential run, said it was “amazing that the Left has not risen up” against Islamic Shari'a law. “They don't focus their energy on anything except the attempt to gather more power in this country by using this issue of same-sex 'marriage' as a tool to do that.”
Then he addressed the direct question: Would he attend a gay “marriage” ceremony?
“No, I would not,” he replied curtly. When asked why not, he said, “As a person of my faith, that would be something that would be a violation of my faith. I would love them and support them, but I would not participate in that ceremony.”
Ted Cruz, the first Republican to say he will seek the GOP's presidential nomination next year, gave a more roundabout reply.
“That's part of the 'gotcha' game that the mainstream media plays, where they come after Republicans on every front, and it's designed to caricature Republicans to make them look stupid or evil or crazy or extreme,” he said. “Sadly, most media players are not actual, objective journalists. They're active partisan players.”
He called reporters “the praetorian guard protecting the Obama administration” now gearing up to campaign for Hillary Clinton.
Cruz said he had not attended a gay “marriage” ceremony but made no commitments about the future.
“Well, I will tell you, I haven’t faced that circumstance,” he said. “I have not had a loved one have a gay wedding. You know, at the end of the day, what the media tries to twist the question of marriage into is they try to twist it into a battle of emotions and personalities. So they say, 'Gosh, any conservative must hate gays.'”
The Texas senator said that he is a conservative Christian and also “a constitutionalist.”
“What we’ve seen in recent years from the Left is the federal government and unelected federal judges imposing their own policy preferences to tear down the marriage laws of the states.”
“And so if someone is running for public office, it is perfectly legitimate to ask them their views on whether they’re willing to defend the Constitution, which leaves marriage to the states, or whether they want to impose their own extreme policy views like so many on the left are doing, like Barack Obama does, like Hillary Clinton does,” he said.
Cruz is right, but I still think he should take a stand.
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Rush was going on about this yesterday. There is no right answer for the audiences of these gotcha leftists. The whole point is to ask “when did you stop beating your wife?” type questions on national TV. In that headline only one person handled it correctly.
Yes or no or I don’t show.
Just another way to make people that are running against the ‘old hag’ look bad and msm is going to carry buckets of water for her....
You remember some years back there was a story about why Billy Boy couldn’t keep his zipper up, it was because his wife liked her kind not his....don’t know if it was true or not, just saying....
In general, that is not a good thing to go to, but there could be peculiar circumstances where to stay away would be even less desirable. Our dear liberals are only for nuance when it is in their favor, of course.
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]
If the question was asked in good faith, yes. But we all know what game is being played here.
I thought there were two correct answers:
'Hell No' - Santorum.
'Go to Hell' - Cruz.
No!! not stand!!! you KNOW in your heart what he wants. I wouldn’t care if he said he wanted to make out with Lindsy Graham, though I might vomit if he said Barney Frank. People we know what he thinks in his heart and what he would do about this and illegals. Let him obfuscate, tel a “fib”, whatever, as long as he wins. Like Obummer did with gay marriage. Dems were smart enough to know what he was gonna o and voted for him. We have to wise up.
I know, I know, it is undignified and dirty way to fight.
How about the alternative. A nuclear wasteland in one of the states, Christians being put in jail for not supporting gay marriage and much worse.
He should also work in the idea that these “gotcha” questions aren’t just political,
but they are an inherent secular humanist religious test for qualification to office.
Basically, the media are doing a religious test to disqualify those “not of the faith” of Humanism.
If someone, especially a relative, whom you love, invited you to witness him masturbate, would you attend?
Hm?
Both masturbation and a gay wedding are disorderly (and often legal) acts a loving person should not encourage.
Did you mean to post to this thread?
We can assume that the presstitutes are exhibiting anything but good faith. Still, the question calls for an answer, and it needs to be the right answer.
Can definitely respect the straight no, but Cruz is OK too.
Cruz essentially meant “It depends, I’m not going to discuss detail, it would be like trying to play chess with a pigeon.”
I would just just say nothing. Why take a stand on their loaded question?
The best move is not to play the game.
I doubt they would jerk-off at the ceremony
He did—by not saying, “Nope, I wouldn’t attend a loved-one’s gay wedding.”
And good for him.
I might show up for the unicorn.
I’m not sure I understand the “were you ever” angle. I couldn’t care less what somebody thought ten or twenty years ago. It’s today and next year that I want to know about.
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