I like telling JEEEB off old school style.
Posted on 01/10/2015 4:31:17 PM PST by Morgana
Less than a month after announcing a possible bid for U.S. president, Jeb Bush is taking criticism from social conservatives after he called for “respect” of gay “marriages” in response to a court decision allowing the unions to proceed in Florida.
Earlier this week, the probable Republican presidential candidate told The New York Times, "We live in a democracy, and regardless of our disagreements, we have to respect the rule of law.”
“I hope that we can show respect for the good people on all sides of the gay and lesbian marriage issue – including couples making lifetime commitments to each other who are seeking greater legal protections and those of us who believe marriage is a sacrament and want to safeguard religious liberty.”
The Times notes that those comments came a day after Bush told The Miami Herald that marriage "ought to be...a state decision."
"The state decided. The people of the state decided. But it’s been overturned by the courts, I guess," Bush told the Herald.
Bush's comments drew harsh criticism from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who wrote on Facebook, "If we are going to allow the courts to decide what our nation's public policies are going to be on 'controversial' issues why do we need a president? What good is a Congress? Heck we can save a lot of money and send them all home!"
Perkins asked whether Bush "hold[s] the same view of the Court's 1973 decision declaring a constitutional right to abort an unborn child?"
Bush's position on marriage straddles a difficult line for the possible presidential candidate, who had a socially conservative record as Florida governor but is trying to soften both his image and that of the GOP. During his first, and failed, gubernatorial campaign in 1994, he wrote that "[h]omosexuality is wrong, but it is also wrong to discriminate against homosexuals in employment, housing, etc., solely on the basis of sexual preference."
However, wrote Bush, government should not enforce non-discrimination. "Or, to put it another way, should sodomy be elevated to the same constitutional status as race and religion? My answer is No. We have enough special categories, enough victims, without creating even more."
A spokesperson for Bush told Buzzfeed this week, “This opinion editorial from 20 years ago does not reflect Gov. Bush’s views now, nor would he use this terminology today.”
"Gov. Bush believes that our society should have a culture of respect for all people, regardless of their differences, and that begins with preventing discrimination, including when it comes to sexual orientation,” the spokesperson added.
From me to Jebbie--Fagedduhboutit.
vaudine
It is likely that decent people will lose this battle. That means the law will pretend that gay “marriage” has something to do with real matrimony. It does not mean that honest people have to pretend that gay “marriage” is any more real than unicorns and patriotic Obama supporters.
I could never vote for Jeb because of Teri Schiavo, the issue that's never mentioned in the media.
I like telling JEEEB off old school style.
FUJB
Is Jeb running in the Democrat Primaries this time?
If you mean the republican open primaries, then yes.
Jeb’s base is the Democrats who will vote heavily for him in the Republican primaries, even the closed ones, and then vote for the Democrat in November. It has happened enough times that it is a tradition and the RNC thinks it is just peachy keen.
Homosexual union is NOT a marriage, never will be, no matter what they call it! Perverting normal cannot change thr truth. I am so sick of this issue!
We will always respect the rights and show both tact and respect for the persons of everybody including homosexuals
having said that,
there is no such thing, Jeb, as “homosexual marriage”
No matter how many political hacks try to ram it down our throats, we ain’t biting (or maybe better said, we will bite it off for you before we ever swallow this non-sense)
since your apparently so INTO all this homosexual stuff, you can ask your homosexual pals what that might mean....
GO FREAKING AWAY! YOU are SUPPOSED to be a CATHOLIC, you JERK!!! GO AWAY JEB....GO FREAKING AWAY!!! RESPECT MY ASS!
“Is Jeb running in the Democrat Primaries this time?”
Darn good question. Does he even know he’s republican? Or what?
What make Bush a conservative? He doesn’t believe in any conservative social or economic principles. He’s in the wrong party
I’m getting sick of all these articles that exist just to give free publicity to Bush.
Isn’t this the same what now deceased Gov. Cuomo said in his speech at Notre Dame, that we have to respect the pro-abortionists and abortion providers because we live in a democracy and as a Catholic he must accept “all” views though her personally opposed abortion. What an ass.
No matter what.
There is no way in good conscience I can support this guy.
Just. No. Way.
Don’t think I can go along with your love fest, Jebster.
He wants to conserve the status quo.
anywhere the word marriage is used when not referring to the union of a man and a woman...in holy matrimony involves the use of dis-similars. ALWAYS!
A great wine...is married to a fine dish
the examples are nearly endless
NEVER does one hear of any given THING being Married to...a SIMILAR Thing.
the “gay marriage” proponens and supporters HATE that tiny bit o folk knowledge
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