Posted on 07/23/2012 8:04:49 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
In an interview with BuzzFeed, a top Republican leader says the GOP needs to be “the party of inclusion.”
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Thursday urged his party, and the nation, to guard against intolerance on issues ranging from gay marriage to the role of Muslims in the government, arguing the country’s diversity of opinion and acceptance are part of America’s basic fabric.
“There can’t be some kind of monolithic opinion handed down from the government or a political party. I don’t think we’re monolithic beings,” Cantor, a Virginia Republican, said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
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But many Republican leaders, including Cantor, are struggling to move past the charged battles on social issues, and to focus the party’s rhetorical energies almost entirely on the economy. Although Cantor did not directly address whether the GOP’s position on gay marriage is hurting its ability to recruit younger voters or broaden its appeal, he argued the issue is part of the broader cultural question of acceptance and tolerance, not only with his party but the society at large.
... When asked if the Republican Party specifically needs to do a better job of accepting opinions on gay marriage and other cultural issues that do not align with party orthodoxy, Cantor said “absolutely.”
“I’ve always said we need to be a party of inclusion not exclusion,” Cantor said. “We need to be promoting tolerance and, you know, as someone who is a religious minority, I sort of grew up with having that mindset, knowing full well that I am in a very distinct way from a religious background, separate and apart from the mainstream of this country.”
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In other words, either embrace the sodomy or be labeled a bigot. No thanks Mr. Cantor, I’m not helping the country any further along the road that Rome followed.
well he is making it look like they have problem...
What about their tolerance of us?
Cantor is a loss.
The muzzies and gays already have tolerance. Way more tolerance than any that is extended to Christians or the Tea Party.
What they want is SPECIAL PRIVILEGES so that they can do things that nobody else can do.
What they’re going to do by pushing their agenda is to foster a backlash.
And the first order of business for the rest of us is to PURGE CONGRESS from the likes of Cantor!
They must have photos of Cantor with a young boy.
Tolerance of opposing views is admirable, however, supporting immorality and advocating deconstruction of our nation is not.
You are right. Republicans always fall into this trap. Gays and Muslims are welcome in the Republican Party if they adhere to its views. That means no gay marriage. That means support for profiling. That means no “hate crimes” laws applicable to gays and Muslims.
As a Christian, there is no tolerance of evil.
Nope, not gonna embrace perversion. Not under any circumstances. Get that, GOP? Put up a candidate from city councilman to prez who supports gay marriage, and I will NEVER give him my vote. The country can be descending into total economic chaos, leftist dictatorship, or any other impending doom... but I still won’t support some sicko who supports gay marriage, no matter how supposedly ‘conservative’ they might be on all other issues.
Re Gay Marriage: In state after state when it appears on the ballot, it is defeated. 31 states have constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The gay marriage advocates are not for tolerance and compromise. They want their views to be validated by laws and require total acceptance by others. Those who disagree are vilified. The US military is now the latest insitution to be used for social engineering and political correctness. The political class could care less what the people want.
Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that, if he thought it was politically expediant, Mitt Romney would be saying or will be saying the exact same things or worse?
He did, after all, implement unconstitutionally, Gay Marriage in MA.
We need to be promoting tolerance
NO! Tolerance in the name of diversity or sensitivity is bullshit. You tolerate a crying child on a plane. You tolerate a child or young adult with Down's Syndrome. You tolerate an elder with dementia. They don't know any better and are often incapable of changing their behaviors.
You DO NOT tolerate Islamic fundamentalists who openly espouse the violent overthrow of America. You DO NOT tolerate two men or two women espousing the idea of sexual promiscuity among the same genders. You DO NOT tolerate attempts to sexualize children or indoctrinate them with Sharia.
This has got to stop. The Roman empire fell because they "tolerated" the barbarians. By the time they realized what was happening, it was way too late.
I hate to sound bigoted or otherwise calloused, but America needs to go back to exclusivity and global introversion. If people want to be considered a part of the greatness of America, they need to go through the proper channels.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that the barbarians are already inside the gates and are in positions of power in major governmental organizations. We need to starve the beast and allow attrition to weed out those who would do us harm. This has got to stop.
“Tolerance” is fine - if someone keeps their lifestyle choice to themselves and doesn’t try to shove it off into everybody else’s faces all the time, then fine, I’m happy to have them voting for and with me.
If they want to treat their lifestyle choice like some kind of super-special achievement that I am forced to “affirm” as they shove it into my face, while they act like any other left-wing special interest group based on their puculiarity, then they can buzz off.
I doubt Cantor has ever read the Koran and Hadiths.
He would be at home in Israel where here are plenty of dumb Jews like him who think they can talk their way into a peaceful settlement with fundamental Muslims.
Cantor's naive approach is what will lead to Israel's undoing.
We don't want that to happen in this country.
You don't accomodate cancer.(Islam) -Tom
Eric Cantor, get thee the hell out of DC...
Thou ist getting infected by the PC disease.
The GOP being the ‘party of inclusion’ is how we got the liberal idiot Mitt Romney who is no different policy wise than the liberal idiot already in the WH.
I believe it is time to start forming a soild third party infrastructure for the future to stop the shifting values of the GOPe progressives.
Building a third party that reflects the values of conservatives and the founders intent will take time and funding. Once the party is started we can find the politicians to fill the tickets. Face it the GOPe is dead as a conservative alternative to the Dems and is just another progressive facet to our one party system.
I don't think Cantor will be any more particularly successful in attracting more young adults this way.
Yet as the House Majority Leader, his words carried weight in society in general.
I believe it is time to start forming a soild third party infrastructure for the future to stop the shifting values of the GOPe progressives.
Building a third party that reflects the values of conservatives and the founders intent will take time and funding. Once the party is started we can find the politicians to fill the tickets. Face it the GOPe is dead as a conservative alternative to the Dems and is just another progressive facet to our one party system.
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