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The Right’s Generational Divide on Gay Marriage
National Review ^ | 6th August 2022 | CHARLES HILU

Posted on 08/07/2022 6:00:40 PM PDT by Ennis85

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1 posted on 08/07/2022 6:00:40 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

National Review supports GloboHomo now. It’s not a conservative outfit.


2 posted on 08/07/2022 6:04:25 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Ennis85
I guess the more precise question is: "What is your position on government marriage?"

Once government turned marriage into a benefits distribution scheme, it was only natural that everybody would want to get in on the deal.

3 posted on 08/07/2022 6:05:33 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Ennis85

Call it whatever you want...but it’s not marriage.


4 posted on 08/07/2022 6:09:32 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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“My opinion is that marriage is a strictly religious institution,” said University of North Georgia sophomore Daniel Jackson. “It’s not something that the government should be involved in at all, and so these legal definitions of marriage, I think they ought to go away.” Jackson

The government cannot remain neutral on the definition of marriage.

If it refuses to define marriage as between one man and one woman, as is the usual, long recognized definition, it is by default defining it as anything goes, which is also a definition of marriage.

They cannot escape defining it. All they can do is choose which definition they will go with.

5 posted on 08/07/2022 6:09:39 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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National Who Cares.

Bill Buckley is spinning.


6 posted on 08/07/2022 6:14:05 PM PDT by Fledermaus (With Trans Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell do we really want them to win Congress in 2022?)
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Like it or not, gay marriage is now well-established. That horse is not just out of the barn. It’s out of the barn, down the pasture, and over the fence.

Opposing gay marriage is not a place to spend political capital. It’s not a hill to die on.


7 posted on 08/07/2022 6:16:26 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Trump doesn’t win in 2016 if Gay Marriage was still up in the air. He never even had to address the issue. And I am almost certain he would have come out for it, if pressed. Social Conservatives would have abandoned him in droves if he did.


8 posted on 08/07/2022 6:18:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It is impossible to separate government from religion. Religion teaches us about morality and government passes laws that enforce morality. It has always been so. The old saw that says you can’t legislate morality is a fallacy.

Now that the majority in the West have turned away from God and His laws, and replaced their religion with a new one that worships man, traditional religion and government are on a collision course.


9 posted on 08/07/2022 6:19:37 PM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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Others, such as Jackson, believe that the government’s sanctioning of marriage — gay or straight — has led to a degradation of the institution.

He’s right about this. A marriage is the only contract under U.S. law that can be unilaterally broken by one party — even years after it has been signed.

Imagine selling a home today, and then having the buyer come back in 20 years and tell you he wants you to buy it back from him just because he doesn’t want to live there anymore.Even worse — imagine a U.S. court ruling in his favor and forcing you to buy it back from him at a price determined by the court.

Real estate law would cease to exist if such a thing happened even once — let alone in 25% to 50% of all home sales.

THAT is the farce that the government has made of “marriage” over the last 100+ years.

10 posted on 08/07/2022 6:23:00 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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OK...I’ll grant you that I am an old fart. BUT...if there is truly a generational divide on this question among conservatives, it will submit that one side of that dichotomy is morally wrong, and likely morally bankrupt.


11 posted on 08/07/2022 6:24:45 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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I disagree with you on that. In the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Obergefell case there were a few states (Alabama and Oklahoma come to mind for some reason) where legislation was drafted that would have rescinded all of the state’s marriage laws. Basically, they would have made marriage the legal equivalent of a baptism or a bar mitzvah. Anyone who wanted to call themselves “married” would simply sign an agreement that would be covered under state contract law.

The irony is that those “marriage” agreements would have been more enduring and legally enforceable than the disaster that has become marriage laws in the U.S. today.

12 posted on 08/07/2022 6:28:45 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: Alberta's Child

But that is then defining marriage as anything goes.


13 posted on 08/07/2022 6:33:31 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Leaning Right

Its positions like “gay marriage is not a hill to die on.” is the reason why you now have this s**t like mainstreaming of gender fluidity, sex-change therapy for kids and children being handed over to sexual predators.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1556151934322720768


14 posted on 08/07/2022 6:34:44 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: metmom

Wake up and smell the coffee. It already was “anything goes” decades ago.


15 posted on 08/07/2022 6:36:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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The young should recall what God says.


16 posted on 08/07/2022 6:37:08 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Yes, I know.


17 posted on 08/07/2022 6:37:58 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Ennis85

I am not against gay marriage, I am against the supreme court making up the “right”, the same as they made up the right to an abortion.

If people want gays to marry, simply vote for people who will pass state laws to that effect. It’s that simple.


18 posted on 08/07/2022 6:38:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Define “Marriage”.


19 posted on 08/07/2022 6:39:34 PM PDT by Ennis85
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> mainstreaming of gender fluidity, sex-change therapy for kids and children being handed over to sexual predators <

That’s the hill to die on. That’s what we should be concentrating on.

I suppose one could argue that it all started with gay marriage. Maybe so. But that tree is too well-established. It’s not going anywhere. It just isn’t. So, let’s concentrate on keeping it pruned back.

(Poor analogy, I know.)


20 posted on 08/07/2022 6:40:40 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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