Posted on 04/27/2007 3:10:50 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
In a startling departure from his previously stated position on civil unions, Mayor Giuliani came out to The New York Sun yesterday evening in opposition to the civil union law just passed by the New Hampshire state Senate.
" Mayor Giuliani believes marriage is between one man and one woman. Domestic partnerships are the appropriate way to ensure that people are treated fairly," the Giuliani campaign said in a written response to a question from the Sun. "In this specific case the law states same sex civil unions are the equivalent of marriage and recognizes same sex unions from outside states. This goes too far and Mayor Giuliani does not support it."
The Democratic governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, has said publicly that he will sign the civil union law.
On a February 2004 edition of Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor," Mr. Giuliani told Bill O'Reilly, when asked if he supported gay marriage, "I'm in favor of … civil unions."
He also said, "Marriage should be reserved for a man and a woman." Asked by Mr. O'Reilly in the interview how he would respond to gay Americans who said being denied access to the institution of marriage violated their rights, Mr. Giuliani said: "That's why you have civil partnerships. So now you have a civil partnership, domestic partnership, civil union, whatever you want to call it, and that takes care of the imbalance, the discrimination, which we shouldn't have." In 1998, as mayor of New York City, Mr. Giuliani signed into law a domestic partnership bill that a gay rights group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, hailed as setting "a new national benchmark for domestic partner recognition."
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
LOL! You're "not attacking Thompson". Yeah, right. How about posting the FULL quote, then:
"I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. Marriage is between a man and a woman and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that."
No. Yesterday, the day before and all back through time Giuliani was and remains a gay activist. He didn’t suddenly go straight. He was finally persuaded by his politically astute campaign staff (well, duh), that unless he sheds his extreme leftism, he’s going to go down in flames. Giuliani is simply a liar. A power hungry liar who will now do and say anything to try to win the nomination. Look for him to soon renounce Roe vs Wade and a woman’s right to choose as a good constitutional law. Look for him to go duck hunting and claim he’s a lifetime member of the NRA. I also expect to see him denouncing sanctuary cities as national security risks. “Mistakes were made,” etc. The man’s a sleazy lying whore. And he dresses the part.
Thankfully, conservatives see through this clown.
I thought Rudy was consistent and would pander to no one.
But now you want him to evolve?
Make up your mind.
Yeah, you are. You lie like your lib hero. How about taking your contempt for conservatives and conservatism to DU. You've had your iron boot on the necks of conservativism for far too long!
Take heart.
One recent poll stated that 70 percent of Republican primary voters were unaware of Rudy's liberal positions on abortion, gay rights and guns.
Geez.
What a creep (not you).
Do you think Fred Thompson is going to be a hard-ass about gay rights?? He won't be. He works in Hollywood for crying out loud.
Guiliani is certainly trying to run to the GOP right as each week reveals new evidence of his flip-flops.....and you can be sure he'll nimbly segue to the more liberal left side in the general if he wins the nomination.
But then it'll be too late to do anything about it.
Leni
Sheesh. Just keep lying and spinning for your pixie dust fairy, lady. Tells the world exactly who and what you are. Giuliani has never lied about being a gay rights activist. He’s in your face and proud of it. It defines him as a man! Of course he’s going straight tomorrow. Bwhahahahah! What a slimeball.
While I have my differences with Bush on a number of important issues, there is no way you can compare the two. There is nothing conservative about Rudy, but he thinks that the fear campaign he is running pretending he is the only candidate who can fight the WOT will be enough to obscure his otherwise liberal agenda. No thanks, I ain't buying it, and I hope my fellow conservatives can open their eyes to Rudy's cynical ploy before it is too late.
If he marches in their parades, is a keynote speaker at their fundraising events and offers to be the first mayor in the nation to marry a gay couple, I think that you can call him an activist.
Heck, he marched in gay parades. And his cross-dressing in some cases was for gay fundraisers.
Rudy Interviewed by Hannity... "GIULIANI: Marriage should be between a man and a woman. Here's exactly the position I've always had. And it's the same -- and I feel the same way about it today that I did eight, 10 years ago when I signed the domestic partnership legislation: Marriage should be between a man and a woman. It should remain that way."
*coughStonewallVeteranscough*
Take it somewhere that people talk civilly about promoting liberals, socialists, socialism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, gun control, illegal aliens, etc. Hint you won’t find it here. Take your conservative trashing to a place where people will appreciate it. Try DU.
And out-of-context quotes used to run down actual conservatives (as opposed to gun-grabbing, abortion-endorsing, gay-rights-peddling, tax-increasing, government-growing liberals) don't appeal to me either.
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