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.
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How about you answer the question?
Oh, and just to note, that which Clinton referred to with that question made no practical difference either.
Nothing.
So let’s try again. Trump’s position on marriage matters exactly how?
So do you believe that judges are going to be appointed to the SCOTUS who will at some point in the future reverse that decision and effectively annul all gay marriages that have occurred since that ruling?
“...Trump is a statesman, something we haven’t seen in many decades.”
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Perhaps...and we will likely see once he is elected.
Some consider his personality to be identical to the personalities of members of a high school’s “mean girls” clique and a poseur.
Others consider him to be near God-like and approaching divinity.
My assessment is that he is likely closer to the former.
The people who are convinced that Trump is going to build a wall and that’s all that matters remind me of some other voters a few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
Actually, he did and he’s done so numerous times. In this case, he said, “Number one, we’re gonna build a wall.” No equivocation or ambiguity in that statement whatsoever - not “I’d like to...”, “I’ll try...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8i5OOslFZo
We all have bosses, unless we are Donald trump, LOL.
I can’t find a record of that conversation between him and Abbott, if it ever took place.
“Did Cruz raise hell or meow like a kitten? It was not his job so he sat quietly.”
Just mere speculation, isn’t it?
You really can’t say Cruz did any of these things,including “punted”.
Our house is on fire, the fire truck pulls up, hooks up the hoses, and begin walking to the house to extinguish it.
Then a conservative walks out of the house, asks the firemen what is your position on traditional marriage, and abortion and eminent domain does not get the answers he wants, sends the firemen away, then walks back inside.
That’s about how it looks
..a wall that hedges us in to pure evil.
WAKE UP AMERICA.
Again, Ted Cruz worked for then Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Abbott ultimately makes the call as the boss, Cruz did not “puntâ€.
This is a lieing headline re-posted. Trump VOWED nothing, he was simply answering the Lesbian’s question. His response was everyone has pet issues, you have yours, others have theirs. “We have to bring all people together. And if we don’t, we’re not gonna have a country anymore.” As always, he puts the country first above pet issues.
Trump’s rope a dope puts Ali in the shade.
Slippery as an eel, he is.
I’m guessing that meeting he had with Bill Clinton was getting his slick tuned up to the max.
HOPE and CHANGE>???
Trump vows to push LGBT rights, hedges on pro-marriage litmus test; COMES ACROOS AS A FAT-HEADED, LONGHAIRED OBAMA.
Cruz couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. He doesn’t even know what the word means!
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