Posted on 08/21/2015 9:44:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even as the Phillips family is struggling for financial existence against punishing government fines for refusing to bake a gay-wedding cake, Donald Trump is doubling down (along with Kasich) on his position as an antiantigay-marriage Republican.
As Paul Dupont points out, Trump, when asked whether gay marriage was a dead issue, did not respond even by saying he would fight for religious liberty, or the right to make a living. He simply said a constitutional amendment is not going to pass, the Supreme Court has ruled, and its time to move on.
This is from an interview with The Hollywood Reporter:
THR: You say you would have liked the states, rather than the Supreme Court, to decide on gay marriage. Have you been to a gay wedding?
Trump: Yes, I have. [Broadway theater owner] Jordan Roth. You know Jordan, right? Great guy.
THR: So is this a dead issue for the GOP at this point?
Trump: Some people have hopes of passing amendments, but its not going to happen. Congress cant pass simple things, let alone that. So anybody thats making that an issue is doing it for political reasons. The Supreme Court ruled on it.
Hes a fighter, allegedly, but not against the biggest powers that be.
So now we have a weird scenario when the princess candidate of the current establishment (John Kasich) and the alleged insurgent are both unwilling to fight against the redefinition of Christianity as bigotry.
I respect Trump enough to take him seriously as a candidate. He could win Iowa. Are there enough people willing to stand up against the real powers that be to either change the candidates mind, or oppose him?
This is a central untold drama of the election.
This is a great example of the left using their tactics to divide conservatives and fracture adequate support for a single candidate.
It is a very effective one too.
I firmly believe marriage is one man one woman, though these days I should modify it with biological man and woman but it is a state issue.
JMHO
Fixed that for you.
And Trump is saying the same thing without using the H1b word.
"Our Churchill."
Well, that’s it then. Since Trump doesn’t meet every criteria I want in a candidate I’m taking my ball and going home. /s
At this point I’m still for Trump, warts and all. Not one of the other candidates, except Cruz and perhaps Carson, would do anything at all to reverse our downhill slide. Trump might. Even if he does nothing on marriage other things he does could reverse things. Maybe not. All I know is that the other candidates, except Cruz and Carson, are just parts of the machine and will only rearrange deck chairs. I’d prefer Cruz but I’ll still take Trump. Unfortunately we still have more than a year of dealing with this cyclic insanity called a Presidential Election.
Trump wasn’t asked about religious freedom. He should be—pointedly and repeatedly until he answers.
And a “the courts must decide” response is not an answer.
Wow! I don’t like what Trump said either but that kind of overreaction is what the cop d’etat is all about. Make it a single issue, run off conservatives because their candidate doesn’t measure up 100%, then slide in a real socialist.
Works every time.
Again, you're missing the point. It wasn't done through legislation. It was done by the Supreme Court unlawfully legislating from the bench! It was a 5-4 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, in June of this year. And the President appoints Supreme Court justices. So I certainly do not want a moral and constitutional dunce like Trump becoming President. Especially when we have much better all-around conservative candidates in the field.
LOL youre kinda special arent you.
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I notice whenever you don’t want to answer questions, you simply offer snarky little personal insults. You pulled this crap with me the other day.
And Trump is saying the same thing without using the H1b word.
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This is your defense of Cruz...really? Pfft!
Every time, we get wrapped up in the social issues. We even WON on most of the social issues. And what happened? The courts overturned it.
Trump thinks he can win on the immigration and economy issues. Perhaps he can. But even solving those problems will not stop our slide into the abyss.
Vice President Cruz will handle that part as he gets all the Social assignments.
Thanks for this background info.
That's not possible. You can't confer authority you don't possess.
Sorry. Trump is fundamentally unsound on all the core moral issues. It isn’t just one.
Trump is right. Save the outrage for the Congress and the SCOTUS on abortion and gay marriage.
Another troll attack—”Trump isn’t Pro-family” Don’t elect him! Its a Democrat trying to get the hard right wingnuts to drop Trump because “he’s Not Right wing enough”. Might have worked with Mittens—doesn’t work now. Go back to your day job at “Black Lives Matter” and take your fat Soros check.
He said come here, work hard and become citizens
Besides it being something he said, which part bothers you? the works hard? Or the become citizens?
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