Posted on 09/26/2007 5:49:53 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
Thompson's refusal to back a nationwide ban on gay marriage has irritated potential supporters.
Fred Thompson is failing to meet expectations that he would rally widespread support from Christian conservatives, and he almost certainly will not receive a joint endorsement from the loose coalition of "pro-family" organizations, according to leaders of the movement.
Many religious conservatives, faced with a Republican primary top tier that lacked a true kindred spirit, initially looked to Thompson as a savior. But the former Tennessee senator has disappointed or just not sufficiently impressed the faith community since his formal campaign launch earlier this month.
While Christian conservatives once seemed willing to readily give Thompson the benefit of the doubt earlier this summer, when questions were raised about his lobbying for a pro-abortion-rights group, they are not willing to turn the other cheek anymore.
Even some on the religious right who remain sympathetic to Thompson are unhappy about his refusal to back a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and were unpleasantly surprised by his confession that he doesn’t belong to or attend any church and won’t talk about his faith.
It was Thompson’s refusal to discuss his faith that is likely to deny him any unified backing from the organizations that comprise the Arlington Group, the umbrella coalition of almost every major social conservative group in the GOP constellation.
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Gary Bauer seems to have problems with Dobson... not Fred!
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They certainly won’t back his “highness” Mr. Romney either-I’d rather back Fred; than that Liberal.
But Weyrich said that after Thompson told members of the group this summer that he supports the Federal Marriage Amendment, the conservative leaders became concerned when they started seeing media reports indicating Thompson didn’t support the measure. Thompson came back again to make his pitch to the group this month and confirmed that, because of his federalist views, he would not back the amendment.
Also, it has been part of the GOP platform as well.
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004
NEW YORK – Republicans endorsed an uncompromising stand against gay marriage Wednesday.....A panel made up largely of conservative delegates approved platform language that calls for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and opposes legal recognition of any sort for gay civil unions.
thats what worries me.
At least Fred isn’t dropping like a stone in the polls, like Mitt.
Dropped 10 in NH.
I support Duncan too, but this is a pinheaded reason to oppose Thompson. We are voting for someone to defend the Constitution, not for the priest-in-chief.
The American Spectator says Dobson is in the tank for Newt.
I truly admire Duncan Hunter. He and Mitt Romney agree on more issues than do Hunter and Thompson (i.e. FMA, border fence, tort reform, Human Life Amendment etc).
Yes. You were supposed to bring the quesedillas.
I said that the day Dobson’s email was leaked.
Surely if two thirds of the country voted in favor of it and congress ratified it I’d be willing to bet Thompson would sign it.
You are good. You had the scoop first, then.
#####I am in no way in favor of using our Constitution to define words that people have known the definition of since the dawn of civilization because it is politically expedient.#####
The problem is, without the FMA, activist left-wing nanny judges will eventually strip every state in the union of their power to define marriage. This will be followed by stripping churches of their tax exemption if they fail to sanction same-sex “marriages”. What libertarian type conservatives are forgetting is that Loving vs. Virginia and the subsequent Bob Jones ruling have ALREADY federalized marriage law.
Many on the religious right don’t understand conservative principles about the proper (limited) role of the federal government either.
Well, it's Dobson's fault that I forgot. That guy never emails the agenda like he's supposed to! I swear, somedays I wonder if I should just join the Calvinists.
There is not much distance from some of America's home grown fanatics and the ones of the middle east. Believe what we believe are we'll kill you.
This is untrue. The only person who turns on Fred Thompson is his wife Jeri.
Of course. Newt is in the forefront of the defense of marriage. He's had, what, three himself?
If all 50 states ban gay marriage i don’t think it would bother him a bit.
####Surely if two thirds of the country voted in favor of it and congress ratified it I’d be willing to bet Thompson would sign it.####
Presidents don’t sign constitutional amendments.
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