Posted on 10/10/2006 7:34:47 AM PDT by ZGuy
The fact that so many Americans are repulsed by Mark Foley's ordinary homosexual behavior should be a clue to the pro-homo media and those in both political parties who think these folks are just like the rest of us. They aren't.
Well, I'm a social conservative. But I have no problem with homosexuals who share my agenda being in a coalition with me and exercising political power.
Of course, R homosexuals do or could cause the following problems for the Republican party:
1. I don't believe homosexuals, as homosexuals, should be held up as role models in public. It's the wrong message to children. As long as R homosexuals are discreet about their problem, that doesn't occur. There is, however, the danger that they will eventually be used to legitimate the practice of homosexuality because they are respected and powerful Republicans.
2. Because most R homosexuals in power are, to some extent, closeted, they are very vulnerable to blackmail. We see some of that happening now.
3. In today's charged climate, I suspect there is a strong possibility of hidden agendas where congressional staffers could have a lot of power.
4. Reactions like yours. The party isn't a church. So there is no requirement, ala Paul, to temporarily exclude sinners from the party until they change their ways. But the secular humanists will and have used this as a wedge, depending on Christian conservatives to act like ninnys and commit political suicide. Of course, the remedy for that is easy. Don't act like ninnys.
There's a lot of better reasons to be annoyed at the R's than a bunch of homosexual staffers.
Political coalitions are often messy and throw unlikely bedfellows together (bad image there). We need every conservative vote and contributor. I'm not willing to run homosexuals out of the party. Besides, if we ran all the sinners out of the party, who would be left?
Darn, there you go ruining a perfectly good thread by making a sincere thoughtful commentary, that isn't knee-jerk ideological or dogmatic, about a complex problem . I suppose you don't let the middle schoolers put the grain alcohol in the punch as well...what a spoil sport.
Can you please explain what you mean? They are not standing up to the smear from the Dems or they are not standing up to the smear from "gays". Or??
Its time to clean house. The Republicans wanted a "big tent"; well, they got it. Its time to shrink the tent or they will lose from here on out.
Exactly. The GOP better start understanding that fact. Also, I just ignore those who will make ANY excuse for a Republican, no matter what they do.
"So long as the PC-crap continues, afraid of offending the faggots and dykes is ruining the Republican Party, simply through the fear of Judicial Activist judges ruling in favor of the deviates as a 14th Amendment contortion."
And this idea of yours is represented by a predonderance of GOP majorities, at the national and state levels, for legislative and Constitutional measures to preserve the traditional views of marriage??? Not. Including the votes of GOP state and national representatives and Senators, some of whose staffs might include a "homosexual"?? Not.
I think that there is not a legislative history in GOP majorities that agrees with your idea.
I was thinking the same thing, but decided not to say anything. Thanks for saying it for me. LOL.
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First, one must assume that if such a mafia exists, there is some evidence that it has achieved some result, in an affect on policies and legislative agendas that it might be seeking.
Second, there is no evidence that such a "mafia" has impacted GOP legislative agendas, at the state or national level, in a way one would assume such a "mafia" would try to do.
As far as the term "lavender mafia" goes, I have only known it to be used and expressed among liberals when speaking of gay activists among the staffs of elected Democrats; and surely there are plenty of examples of Democrat legislative agendas that one could presume might have been pushed by said "mafia".
So, I would have to conclude that this entire tale orginates, as the orgininal "outing" of Foley does, somewhere with those who find some perverse political benefit from suppressing the "social conservative" vote for GOP members in November.
Nice try, but it won't work here.
Another RAT ploy to upset "easily-led fundamentalists" by telling them their GOP leadership loves gays.
True... heterosexuals never do perverted things like trading in older first wives for hot, younger models..... ;)
"As far as the term "lavender mafia" goes, I have only known it to be used and expressed among liberals when speaking of gay activists among the staffs of elected Democrats"
I used "Lavender Mafia" in the sense that it is commonly used to refer to the homosexual network active within the Roman Catholic clergy and episcopate.
Feel free to learn more here:
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/dossier.jsp?did=dossier-lavender-mafia
An interesting thing I have noticed watching the Dateline predators series is that the men going after the girls are just guys; truck drivers, computer geeks, factory workers etc., the men going after the boys are; Preachers, Rabbis, teacher, pediatricians, coaches etc. all well educated, well-to-do professional types. I guess Congressmen would fit in that category.
I have also noticed that when the series started it was girls one week, boys the next, then all of a sudden it became all girls all the time. I wonder if the HRC snet NBC an email telling them to pull the plug on the homosexual angle?
Yet another reason why the Republicans are facing losing seats in Congress. Clean the closet or lose power.
Let's repeat this in bold face. This is all we need to remember.
The POINT being made was that the Church sex abuse scandal was mostly NOT pedophilia. It was pederasty/ephebophilia, gay men and teenage boys.
And, it's about Americans who know better not standing for the truth: that homosexuality is moral degeneracy and mental disorder.
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