Posted on 12/12/2022 3:04:13 PM PST by Ennis85
t has come to light that the 12 Republican senators who threw their support behind the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” (RMA) were swayed by cash and political clout wielded by a group of prominent donors, several of whom identify as “gay.”
At least ten GOP senators were needed to join Senate Democrats to reach the required 60-vote threshold for passage of the bill, which mandates that all 50 states must recognize same-sex “marriages,” even in the event that the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
The New York Times reported:
Behind the scenes, a group of influential Republican donors and operatives, including some of the party’s most prominent gay leaders with long experience prodding their party to embrace L.G.B.T.Q. rights, banded together with the bill’s proponents in Congress for a coordinated, $1.7 million campaign to persuade G.O.P. senators that backing it would give them a political edge.
Their quiet work helps explain how a bill to ensure recognition of same-sex marriages across the country went from being the subject of an election-season political maneuver that few expected to be enacted to an initiative embraced by a decisive majority of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the final acts of the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Homosexual Republican groups were quick to praise the behind-the-scenes work to enshrine same-sex “marriage” in U.S. law:
“Today’s victory was a result of outstanding work from many prominent conservatives, ongoing constituent efforts, and critical polling that proved the growing conservative support for same-sex marriage,” tweeted Conservatives Against Discrimination, a group which promotes homosexual ideology.
“Gay Republicans helped pass marriage equality,” declared Georgia Log Cabin, one of many state and local chapters of Log Cabin Republicans, comprised primarily of “LGBTQ+” members.
Among those behind the effort to make Republican senators complicit in the passage of the RMA were Ken Mehlman, President George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign manager and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, a homosexual man who has long lobbied Republicans to support same-sex “marriage”; Reginald Brown, a lawyer who had worked in the George W. Bush’s Administration; and James Dozier, president of the board of Centerline Action, who is “married” to a man.
Centerline Action helped commission polling in nine states where Republican senators had been identified “who could be persuaded to support the Respect for Marriage Act but who were publicly undecided: Alaska, Missouri, West Virginia, Iowa, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana, Utah and Wyoming,” according to the Times.
Polling has repeatedly found broad disapproval of the RMA among Republican voters.
Former Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a longtime cheerleader for genderless marriage, took a victory lap in an NPR interview following the Senate’s passing of the bill.
“We had a quiet campaign to try to get folks online,” said Ros-Lehtinen, who co-chairs Conservatives Against Discrimination. “It’s a historic moment,” declared the former congresswoman.
Ros-Lehtinen, whose son is a transgender LGBTQ advocate, announced during the NPR interview that trans issues are the next goal. “We’ve got to understand that not everyone who is born in a certain gender is still identifying with that gender,” she asserted.
Katy Faust, Founder of Them Before Us, an organization dedicated to putting the rights of children over the desires of adults, has called attention to the adult-centric, child-endangering ramifications of the RMA, casting a harsh light on the flawed logic of the bill’s supporters.
“Marriage has long been the most child friendly institution in the world has ever known, because it unites the two people to whom children have a natural right – their mother and father,” Faust told LifeSiteNews.
“Gay ‘marriage’ works in reverse by separating children from at least one person to whom they have a natural right,” explained Faust. “The redefinition of marriage has transformed this child-centric institution into just one more vehicle of adult fulfillment.”
“Now we see that not only are children being sacrificed on the altar of adult fulfillment, but they are being used as pawns so GOP senators can be ‘political winners,’ given a ‘political edge,’ and be offered a ‘sense of comfort’ by legislatively cementing the loss of a child’s mother or father. Is there any party willing to defend children’s rights?”
“According to [both houses’ vote to pass] the Respect for Marriage Act, the answer is clearly ‘No,’” said Faust.
Lindsey Graham at it again.
“We had a quiet campaign to try to get folks online,”
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In other words, they found enough Republicans who were ready and willing to have their palms greased.
This is what “democracy” is all about. It’s “our values” in a “rules based order” or whatever evil crap they are spewing at the moment.
Lindsey has been reamed out so many times that he buys Hoppe's No. 9 by the gallon.
Any other Hoosiers here? What up with Young Voting for this?
Genesis 19:27-28
King James Version
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019%3A27-28&version=KJV&interface=amp
I would be willing to bet that more than one of the 12 who voted for this have children or other immediate family members who are homosexual. This is a cancer that has infected our society at every level. In my spouse’s family, we have experienced this. We are very much in the minority by taking a stand that we love our relative but do not condone his sin.
An astoundingly high percentage of people who profess to be conservatives, abandon their long-held values and support the lifestyle choices of their misguided children (or siblings). I am always amazed at the folks I know who are attending or even sponsoring same-sex “weddings” for their children instead of lovingly standing for God’s truth.
This is an issue of unregenerate hearts, not one of legislation.
I’m pretty sure Republicucks voted for fake faggot marriage because they get money from wealthy donor Paul Singer.
Homosexual acts should be illegal.
And screw the rest of the country.
like many other harmful behaviors, I have no problem with them being legal. They are only harming themselves after all.
BUT, I have a BIG issue with them trying to recruit others to their death cult, brainwashing kids with gay stuff inserted into everything making it look all normal and fun, which is is really just a fast miserable trip to the grave!
“Reginald Brown, a lawyer who had worked in the George W. Bush’s Administration”
Bush Jr.’s Administration was BRIMMING with gays. I simply cannot figure this crap out - Bush Jr’s judicial picks were pretty much conservative (meaning that they idolize grooming), but his people were sickos.
Romney would have done it for free but thanks for the ‘gifts’
You cannot have legal homosexual acts without the poofters running amuck. Shouldn’t that be obvious by now?
Though poorly enforced those laws protected society from their corruption, both from the homosexuals and their far more numerous supporters.
Evil today is everywhere. Many GOP politicians are very evil.
They didn’t have to push too hard.
There are rumors that a second Trump Administration would feature homosexual Ric Grenell as Secretary of State. I recall Trump happily waving the gay flag. We should keep that in mind.
Ha!
Excellent!
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