Posted on 11/15/2014 6:42:14 AM PST by massmike
A newly-elected Republican Congressman is facing criticism after hiring a same-sex "marriage" supporter as his first Chief of Staff.
Congressman-elect Tom Emmer is set to replace Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, when the 114th Congress convenes in January. Just days after winning the race, however, Emmer picked one of his campaign consultants, outgoing state Rep. David FitzSimmons, as his highest-ranking staffer.
FitzSimmons is one of four Republicans in the Minnesota House of Representatives to vote for same-sex "marriage" last year.
"The state has gone through a lot of controversy over this issue recently, and state Rep. FitzSimmons was a major player in passage of same-sex 'marriage,'" said Autumn Leva,Director of Policy and Communications for the Minnesota Family Council, "especially because he put forth an amendment that he said would protect religious liberty."
"However, as was shown when a hunting reserve said that they don't host same-sex 'weddings' but was forced to settle and pay for the same-sex ceremony, FitzSimmons' effort failed."
FitzSimmons said that the GOP must support marriage if it wants to win elections. "I don’t understand how a major political party who’s goal it is to get to 50 percent, plus one, can survive by dogmatically attaching itself to an issue that had 19 percent support by people under the age of 30,” he was quoted in a blog post discussing his loss.
"[T]he Republican Party has to decide if it wants to sacrifice everything else Republicans believe in, every other personal liberty issue, every issue on taxes and spending, every issue on life (abortion), to continue fighting gay marriage," said FitzSimmons, who also said the growing support for marriage redefinition in the GOP shows that “it’s not a successful short-term or long-term strategy for the Republican Party” to hold to the party's platform on marriage.
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It doesn’t matter if they have a D or R behind their name, they all play on the same team.
Uniparty is so accurate- should be obvious to everyone
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