Anchor Hits Back At Cantor: ‘No One’s Asking You To Marry Another Man’ (VIDEO)

Talking Points Memo ^ | April 5, 2013 | Tom Kludt

[2ndDivisionVet]

CNBC host Joe Kernen took House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to task Friday over the Republican Party's opposition to same-sex marriage.

In a rare discussion of social issues on the financial news program "Squawkbox," Kernen argued that the GOP has squandered its appeal with fiscally conservative voters by virtue of its opposition to gay nuptials. Cantor said some people, himself included, have legitimate religious objections to same-sex marriage.

“There are those of us who have personal religious convictions about the issue," Cantor said. "And I think that we as a country need to respect people about their opinion, not matter which side you come down on. I think that's what's really been lacking in all of this debate."

Cantor suggested that the the party's position wasn't "being received in the proper way," but Kernen asserted that "if we really are free, then everybody should be free."(continued)

[agere_contra]

"Well Joe, marriage is conjugal. It is based on the conjugal, procreative act. Conjugal marriage by its very nature leads to the conception of children and supports norms of constancy and monogamy that protect and nuture those children and those spouses."

"Conjugal marriage leads to the formation of something we like to call the family, and families are in turn the building block of a healthy society"

"On the other hand: gay sex is by its very definition non-conjugal. It doesn't lead to the conception of children, nor does it support norms of constancy and monogamy. Nor does it lead to the creation of families."

"In fact we see that gay sex - certainly among homosexual men - leads to norms of promiscuity, high rates of anal cancer and heavy use of dangerous substances such as amyl nitrite to reduce the pain of anal penetration".

"We should therefore promote conjugal marriage - which is of enormous value to society - by refusing to equate it with things that are not conjugal marriage."

"And in a society that strongly controls cigarette smoking because of the attendant health risks and burden on the health industry: we should consider legislation to crack down on male homosexual sex. Perhaps the Surgeon General should issue a warning about the dangers of anal intercourse?"

[Third Person]

Pre-coffee issues.... abberant = aberrant.

[Psalm 73]

“....let’s let people marry their toasters....”

I like where you’re going here - I love my truck - if I marry her will Obamacare cover oil changes and tires? A valve-job maybe....?

[bdfromlv]

The Lame stream are not mentioning it but the muzzie population is playing close attention to the multiple wives question as soon as the definition is changed. A lot of sisters and aunt will disappear and be added to the welfare roles as Wives

[Travis McGee]

[AppyPappy]

I always try to get them to endorse polygamy. It really makes them squirm.

[wku man]

It's impossible for a man to marry another man. That's not what the word "marriage" means. Marriage is, and always has in civilized societies, meant one man and one woman.

Limbaugh was right last week when he said we lost the debate as soon as we started qualifying the word "marriage" with "traditional", "heterosexual", etc. The word "marriage", in and of itself, implies "traditional", "heterosexual", and "opposite sex". There's no need to qualify it, because it means what it means...anything other than one man and one woman is not marriage.

Words mean things. The English language is the rule book of Western civilization, and to let the CommieLib sodomites tinker with it, screw with it, change meanings ala the Newspeak dictionary, means we've lost our civilization.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[G Larry]

I’m amazed and disappointed as Joe is Catholic and has always seemed conservative.

[ansel12]

Kernen argued that the GOP has squandered its appeal with fiscally conservative voters by virtue of its opposition to gay nuptials.

As though true conservatives, who are pro-marriage and anti-abortion are not fiscal conservatives?

Libertarianism is a tool of the left and the fig leaf of the rinos.

[SunkenCiv]

• ...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said. [Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften [immigration, gay marriage] stance]

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• One day after announcing on his radio show that he is "truly considering" running in 2014 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Rivera amped up his message today in a television interview and a column on the Fox News Latino website... a moderate Republican who is fiscally conservative but also supports gay marriage and Roe v. Wade... [Geraldo Rivera declares himself a 'moderate Republican' as he eyes U.S. Senate run]

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[Graewoulf]

Documentation File on the harmful impact of the Counterculture of Obamanation on America.

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Barry Soetoro, aka B. Hussein Obama, first Inaugural quote: “I want to FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA!”

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Eveybody is free. Any man can marry any woman without any Problem. That is freedom. What is being asked for is perversion. Those are the facts. To do otherwise is to distort what everybody has always considered marriage to be. That is to pervert what has always been understood! To PERVERT what has always been understood is wrong. Let them consider doing something else!

[longtermmemmory]

this is just the MSM meme to divide people into fiscal and social conservatives.

conservative is conservative.

the reporter is scum for goebling the issue.