Posted on 10/01/2014 5:11:20 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Tuesday, my colleague Will Saletan chronicled the various ways that Republican candidates are running away from "culture war" issues like gay marriage and reproductive rights. "Republicans are mumbling, cringing, and ducking," he notes, before providing a number of examples. "They don’t want the election to be about these issues, even in red states."
Saletan's not the only who noticed the sudden cowardice of Republican politicians on social issues. At this year's Values Voters Summit, held this past weekend, religious right leaders were showing fear of being left behind. "There was a palpable fear throughout the conference that the Republican Party is moving away from the Religious Right," writes Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch. At one panel, social conservatives tried gallantly to argue that opposition to abortion and gay rights is actually somehow libertarian, because supporters of those rights are "using the government to impose this new, strange sexual orthodoxy." And at one point, Brian Brown from the National Organization for Marriage defensively said, "It's not our fault" that Republicans keep losing.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“Let me just put a stop to this **** right now,” Marcotte wrote. “You can give me gold-plated day care and an awesome public school right on the street corner and start paying me 15 percent more at work, and I still do not want a baby. I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding.
“No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness,” she declared.
Marcotte said a pregnant mother-to-be is “my idea of what hell looks like.”
“Don’t I sound selfish? Hedonistic?” the self-described freethinker wrote. “This is actually what I think and I feel zero guilty about it, but I know that saying so out loud will cause people to want to hit me with the Bad Woman ruler.”
http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/feminist-babies-are-time-sucking-monsters/
I know these liberals, as much as possible, want to create the reality they want by deceiving people to think that reality has already come, but there's no arguing with the fact that over time America's values have been liberalizing and becoming more and more antichristian. There's still a lot that can be done about it, even just to bring people to conviction even if the whole society continues its slide.
“Tuesday, my colleague Will Saletan chronicled the various ways that Republican candidates are running away from “culture war” issues...”
I detect a DNC misinformation propaganda campaign.
“reproductive rights”
lol
I’m not so sure. I live in Kentucky and the Senate ads run by McConnell have been about financial issues, Obama, and gun ownership. Nothing about social issues. The country has been slowly liberalizing in recent decades, and I believe it’s up to ordinary Christians to bring pressure on Republicans and Christian leaders to show them how much Christian values matter. In a country like ours, especially, it does come down to who wants it more. Increasingly, there seems to be less passion among Christians as antichrist values take over.
Democrips are vile as ever. Slate is a clown site.
But the Repukes should be aware. Abandon social issues, you’ll never win dog catcher in a million years
Corrected it.
The US is becoming a country that is not worth defending.
Being a “man without a country” was once considered a fate tantamount to damnation, but many conservatives are now simply unmooring themselves from their country. It’s not my path, but it’s a rational response.
It’s not just cultural issues. Another article said Republican candidates were avoiding the tax cut issue. I mean, what is left? Cutting Social Security? What will be their main platform?
Tillis in NC cowering like a dog on the Hobby Lobby question. Why didn’t he smash Hagan over the head with it for being an anti-first amendment witch?! WHY ARE OUR CANDIDATES COWARDS!!!
Well missy, whether or not you want to have children is no concern of mine. But you have absolutely no right to take another person’s life, especially the life of an innocent child, because it’s inconvenient. So if you don’t want to end up living your idea of hell, keep your legs closed.
As for the republicans who have decided that the babies no longer have any value, every last one of them can go join the democrats. I’m not voting for any of them no matter how bad the GOPe cries a vote for x is vote for y or staying home will give you z. Voting for any abortion loving, gay agenda supporting, godless, liberal policy creating republican is a vote in support of all of those things and absolutely no different from voting for a democrat.
For those “values” organizations who are afraid the republicans are going to leave them behind, put the fear of God in the republicans. Instead of swearing they are not responsible for the republicans losing, take responsibility and let them know that if they keep on going the way of the Christ denying democrats, it’s only going to get worse for them.
I fear God, not the GOPe, the dems, the libs, the commies or Islam.
A country with no morals is a country that will cease to exist. The liberals and their cowardly GOPe sidekicks better remember that.
Most of these stories are BS. The media doing what they’ve always done and trying to manipulate public opinion.
At least 3 times today I’ve seen stories about how republicans are refusing to address particular issues and in each case, 30 seconds of searching can find my senate candidate addressing exactly those issues.
Yes, it’s Slate ! There must be 3-4 postings a night here from that rat site.
Just relax folks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Maybe the religious right is not so right and stabbing the republicans in the back in 2012 would make the republicans think twice about supporting their agenda.
Romney only got 48 percent of the religious vote, since Obama got 50 percent what does it say about the religious self-righteous.
That’s the fault of Romney and if he runs again he’ll probably lose by a wider margin.
She sounds like a self-centered witch.
That’s the fault of Romney and if he runs again he’ll probably lose by a wider margin.
Those aren’t the numbers I heard. And a lot depends on how you define “religious,” “religious vote” and “religious right.”
Maybe in your state. But as I said, there have been no ads on issues concerning faith in Kentucky. And the fact that some candidates might mention social issues doesn’t in itself prove that the GOP isn’t trying to abandon them. Big corporations are certainly taking social issue stands, particularly in favor of homosexuality, and they have quite a bit of political power too.
Those aren’t the numbers I heard. And a lot depends on how you define “religious,” “religious vote” and “religious right.”
I don`t think you would want to hear me define religion even if I could do a good job of it.
Faith or belief in God yes, religion NO.
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