Posted on 02/09/2016 8:53:30 AM PST by wagglebee
CONCORD, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Does Donald Trump support the gay agenda or oppose it? On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, observers are still scratching their heads about where the GOP frontrunner actually stands.
Trump has repeatedly and consistently said he supports the natural definition of marriage, but can a President Trump be relied on to promote it resolutely and cogently? It is this question that has many marriage activists expressing concern about his increasingly likely hold on the GOP nomination.
In fact, the National Organization for Marriage has gone so far as to say that Trump has “abandoned” the pro-marriage cause.
Trump himself underscored the problem on the weekend when he told a New Hampshire television station that from the White House he would push “equality” for homosexuals even further forward.
A cable news reporter self-identifying as a lesbian asked him last Thursday after a rally in Exeter, "When President Trump is in office, can we look for more forward motion on equality for gays and lesbians?"
“Well, you can and look - again, we're going to bring people together. That's your thing, and other people have their thing,” Trump told Sue O’Connell of New England Cable News. “We have to bring all people together. And if we don't, we're not gonna have a country anymore. It's gonna be a total mess.”
Following the comments, Trump appeared Sunday on ABC’s This Week program with George Stephanopoulos and would not commit to appointing Supreme Court justices who’d overturn Obergefell, though that would be his “preference.”
“We’re going to look at judges. They’ve got to be great judges. They’ve got to be conservative judges. We’re going to see how they stand depending on what their views are. But that would be my preference,” he told Stephanopoulos. “I would prefer that they stand against, but we’ll see what happens. It depends on the judge.”
Trump’s comments follow his statements during a Fox News Sunday interview last week, when he said, “If I'm elected, I would be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things, but they've got a long way to go.”
“[Marriage] should be a states rights issue,” Trump continued. “I can see changes coming down the line, frankly.”
When asked by Fox if he “might try to appoint justices to overrule the decision on same-sex marriage,” Trump replied, “I would strongly consider that, yes.”
The real estate mogul criticized the Supreme Court for the Obergefell decision imposing homosexual “marriage” on all 50 states last June, but then later in August, Trump voiced support to NBC News for banning companies from firing employees on the basis of sexual orientation. “I don't think it should be a reason” to fire workers, he said at the time on Meet the Press.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and a number influential evangelicals have endorsed Senator Ted Cruz in the race for president. The Texas senator has not only committed to appointing pro-marriage justices, but says the president and the states can rightly defy the “fundamentally illegitimate” ruling just as President Lincoln defied the Dred Scott decision.
NOM has also been highly critical of Trump, saying he has “abandoned” their cause. The organization said in its January 27 blog post just prior to the Iowa Caucus that “Donald Trump does not support a constitutional amendment to restore marriage to our laws. Worse, he has publicly abandoned the fight for marriage. When the US Supreme Court issued their illegitimate ruling redefining marriage, Trump promptly threw in the towel with these comments on MSNBC: ‘You have to go with it. The decision's been made, and that is the law of the land.’”
NOM had said the week before that Trump “has made no commitments to fight for marriage, or the rights of supporters of marriage to not be discriminated against and punished for refusing to go along with the lie that is same-sex 'marriage.'”
New Hampshire voters have been tracked as showing support for homosexual “marriage,” as a poll last February showed 52 percent of Republican NH primary voters saying opposing gay “marriage” is unacceptable.
The latest CNN/WMUR tracking poll shows that overall 33 percent of likely Republican primary voters support Trump, giving him a growing 17-point lead over the nearest GOP contender. RealClearPolitics polling average in the state puts him at 31.0 percent support, with Marco Rubio second at 14.7, John Kasich third at 13.2, and Ted Cruz fourth at 12.7.
Regardless of what he thinks, he has to say it because it is at the very core of any populist campaign.
Trump is really a better politician than some of the politicians running.
Good comment, brings things back down to earth.
I have never heard of this. Show the written or video evidence.
this is a damage control story given that one of Ted Cruz’s mega donors is a homosexual cause advocate.
I have seen the interview with the lesbian asking him about “gay” rights. His answer was a few second non-answer. I see many social conservative sites magnifying this a thousandfold. Rubio with a “gay” past (hopefully past) is going to do something? Cruz, who said in 2012 when running for Senate that “gay marriage” was not an issue for him, but repealing 0’care? And also is on the record as stating that marriage is a states’ rights issue? And has taken big $$$ from bunches of NYC rich homosexuals?
It is not possible to find a very pure socially conservative candidate that is up to the most stringent standards. Not possible. Too bad that that’s the way it is. Not one that will win, that has a fighting spirit and will protect our borders and do all the other things necessary to bring the US back from the abyss.
Trump has said he will seek to overturn the SCOTUS “gay” marriage ruling, and that’s good enough for me.
Possibly (very remotely), but what is more likely is that we have a supreme court appointed by President Cruz who will reverse Ogberfell and then send the issue back to the states, what would probably happen is that the “marriages” that have already occurred in states with Marriage Amendments would stand (after all legal remedies) and then no future gay marriages in those states.
I doubt very much that would happen.
A better remedy to the problem of SCOTUS would be an Article V convention in which amendments are passed restricting the power of the 9 lawyer gods.
States should be empowered to over rule any SCOTUS decision, otherwise the court is going to continue to dictate to us and issue it wants, and we are going to continue to sweat what political activists get appointed to the court as we are doing now.
The court has abused its power, it’s time to take a good measure of it back.
Me too. We are interested in the salvation of the country. Others are only interested in childish issues.
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Stopping graft???
Trump is the king of graft!
That’s why he had an orgasm over the Kelo decision.
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People getting unglued about the issue of “coarse language” makes me see how having some kind of voting test might be a good idea.
People getting unglued about this don’t have a pinch of understanding about real issues, how the US and indeed the whole world is on the brink of the abyss, or even how to tell someone’s actual character. It’s quite mind blowing, really.
Actually Cruz had a nice fund raiser with some NYC homosexuals (6 months after a suspicious death of a homo pickup in the homo hosts’ apartment). I know that Rubio has a mega rich donor/funder, last name Singer, whose son is a homo and wants homo marriage pushed. There are articles floating around about Rubio’s homo past, as well.
Heh - wrong thread, I was thinking we were on the coarse language thread.
It amazes me that people are worming out of what little Trump said, that he’s going to push the homo agenda. I am sure Cruz or someone is behind this new thing.
I know some people who have been involved in construction in the New York/New Jersey area in a major way and they tell me that it is IMPOSSIBLE, not just very difficult, actually IMPOSSIBLE to get a major project done up there without a great deal of graft. EVERYONE has their hand out and if they don't get paid, nothing gets done.
I had to ship a container full of materials to Manhattan last year. Shipping the container there cost $4K, getting the contents unloaded and into the building was almost $10K.
That's why he had an orgasm over the Kelo decision.
There is probably no private individual in the country who has benefited more from eminent domain than Trump.
Call me if you are coming to my Trump victory party. 867-5309. :-)
“Everyone we have elected has lied. People are very very angry. Angry enough to say to heck with them all. I am with Trump.”
Your solution to lying politicians is to vote for a guy we know lies through his teeth? That seems strange to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
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Is your Area Code 666?
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Looks like sore cruzerman is alive and well this morning?
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