Reuters poll: 56% of Republicans would attend a loved one’s gay wedding

Hotair ^ | 04/29/2015 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

Finally, an answer to the most important question of the 2016 election.

Kidding aside, though, this is a bit surprising.

The question of whether or not a candidate would attend the gay wedding of a loved one has become an increasingly common litmus test for candidates on the issue…

The poll showed 56 percent of Republicans would attend the gay wedding of a loved one if invited. That compares with 80 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of independents, who said they would go.

Overall, 68 percent of Americans would attend, the poll showed, while 19 percent would not and 13 percent were unsure…

Though a right-leaning, anti-marriage position may appeal to important conservative voters in states with early nominating contests such as Iowa and New Hampshire, that stand could hurt an eventual nominee in the general election, in which cross-party appeal and independents play a larger role.

Most polls show GOP support for legalizing gay marriage somewhere between 30 and 40 percent, so apparently there’s a chunk of 20 percent or so that would show up for a gay family member’s wedding even though they … don’t think it should be legally recognized. That’s an odd position but I think it may end up being the majority position of the Republican presidential field: Rubio, Rick Perry, and Jeb Bush all oppose legalizing SSM, last I checked, and all of them have said they’d attend a gay wedding if invited. (“Claro que si” said Jeb when asked yesterday in Puerto Rico.) In fact, Ted Cruz ducked the question when Hugh Hewitt put it to him instead of replying with a flat “no.” You can see why this stance might appeal to a socially conservative pol hoping to face the national electorate next November, though. Being anti-SSM but pro-attendance is a way in theory to show righties you’re on their side of the legal debate while showing swing voters you’re not the “hater” Democrats accuse you of being.

Surely these numbers shift, though, when you look specifically at Republican primary voters, right? It stands to reason that the GOPers most motivated to vote are more likely to be members of the base, which usually means they’re more conservative than Republicans generally. And as it turns out, the numbers do shift — but not as much as you might expect. Using Reuters’s nifty crosstabs tool to refine the data so that it shows only GOP primary voters, we find that 49 percent would attend versus just 35 percent who wouldn’t, suggesting that the Rubio/Bush/Perry position is a winner in the primaries too — at least if you’re competing for center-righties, as each of them is. Surprisingly, the numbers are even better among older (i.e. age 60 or over) Republicans, 56 percent of whom say they’d attend. Women are also noticeably more supportive of attending than men are, with just 51 percent of Republican men saying they’d attend versus 62 percent of Republican women. Among the broader population, 61 percent of men would attend versus 75 percent of women. Maybe that has less to do with women being more pro-gay than men than women being more pro-wedding? You tell me.

Exit question: Is the fact that this was an online poll, not a phone poll, significant?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Both are pretty good. So yes check them out.

[VideoDoctor]

And 80 to 90% of gays DO NOT intend or want to GET MARRIED!

[Yosemitest]

I do, too.
TO TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALS IS EVIL.
This is what we get when we FAIL to OBEY God.
For it is written:

“ For whosoever shall commit ANY of these abominations,
even the SOULS that commit them
SHALL BE CUT OFF from among their people. ”

Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.

It was given by our Heavenly Father to test us
to see ... if we will OBEY our Heavenly Father,
and abide by His commandments, statues, and ordinances.

Someone once asked

"Why are they [homosexuals] all so angry?"

The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE".

rep·ro·bate \ˈre-prə-ˌbāt\ a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.


Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6.




2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.

They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.

3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3.

And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

But will we OBEY our Heavenly Father?

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever."

[CatherineofAragon]

Excellent post.

Think about attending a homo wedding. You’ll sit there among people who are in complete approval, and they will assume, naturally, that you are, too.

If you’re a Christian and they are aware of it, what kind of witness are you making?

You’ll watch and listen as a minister-—or what passes for one-—performs the ceremony, you’ll hear them be pronounced husband and husband, or wife and wife, and you’ll watch them kiss. And you’ll have to sit there with a smile on your face.

Afterward, you’ll have to congratulate the couple. Will you really mean those congratulations? Do you truly think you should be happy for them? No, you’re putting on an elaborate charade.

And after the whole thing is said and done, how will you be able to voice credible opposition to homosexuality in the presence of anyone who happened to attend that ceremony?

[x]

I guess.

With the mental reservation that it's not a "real wedding."

[fatima]

Not me.

[Jim Noble]

Damage control?

Are you kidding???

Gays and gay “weddings” are phenomenally popular at the moment. No candidate who says “no way in Hell would I go” is electable to any national office.

Rubio (who I do not support) did as well as any candidate could do with the question.

[mrsmel]

Exactly, and don’t think that the sodomites who issue the invitations aren’t aware of your dilemma (for any Christians for whom it is indeed a dilemma) when they put you on the spot by inviting you, if they know you identify as a Christian. You can’t win. If you stand on God’s Word, you’re a “hater”. If you attend, you have undermined your own standing to oppose sodomite “unions”. If I’m put in that position, there is no angst, no second-guessing. I will follow the lead of my God, as expressed through His Own Word and The Holy Spirit guiding my conscience (which He will never do in opposition to God The Father’s, or God The Son’s, Word).

[CatherineofAragon]

Yes...and unfortunately it’s always our side that makes allowances and ends up caving in. They never do.