Posted on 04/17/2009 1:01:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming 'Religious Party' Steve Schmidt urges Republicans to begin voicing more support for civil unions and gay rights.
FOXNews.com
Friday, April 17, 2009
John McCain's top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
Steve Schmidt, in his first political appearance since the election, spoke at the Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans -- a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans.
He urged Republicans, in the near-term, to endorse civil unions and stop using the Bible as rationale for gay-marriage opposition.
"If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party," he said. "And in a free country a political party cannot be viable in the long-term if it is seen as a sectarian party."
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Tell ‘um brother!
LLS
very true
inform the black and Hispanic community that the Dem want homos, our party does not
we believe in traditional values not some limp wrist ed agenda, in fact remind all those blue collar workers too who are union or the average job.
ext election should topic should be brought to the front
“Goldwater would be/is rolling over in his grave. “
He is, over big government. Free from the senility and influences of his liberal wife that began to besiege his mortal brain I doubt he would give a crap that gays can’t “marry”.
Well, Goldwater said in 1994 when he testified in a Congressional hearing on "gay rights" ...
""You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it."
Personally, I believe government should stay out of the marriage morass and stick to what it does best - contracts and agreements. Give the homos the ability to enter into civil unions and be done with it. Marriage is something for God, by God and of God. The government has no business meddling in it.
I second that.
Yes, and embrace Steve Schmidt's LESBIAN SISTER & HER PARTNER! /s
In any case, Goldwater didn't "create" either. He did revitalize the conservative movement in 1964 to take BACK control of the Republican Party, and deserves credit for that (the last time conservatives had controlled the party prior to Goldwater was the 1920s)
And there's no doubt the Goldwater of 1964 was not in favor of special rights for gays the way Goldwater c. late 1980s was. Lyndon Johnson was briefly caught in a scandal with a closest gay staffer hitting on men in the white house restroom, and Goldwater exploited it all he could and made reference to "Johnson and his curious crew". Goldwater c. 1964 wouldn't be caught dead endorsing "civil unions" or any other special government recognition of gay relationships/living together.
Dittos! There are aspects of human conduct that one can oppose that don't require the supernatural as the rationale behind such opposition. For example, I don't need a supreme being to tell me that I should oppose tossing babies off of a pyramid to please a rain god, either...
They (maybe 5% of the vote at most) vote 70-30 democrat. That sensible 30% is safe for the GOP.
this topic should be brought up in the elections, it is a win situation and lets remind everyone about the homos,, show videos of them on their freak parades, tell the public about what their agenda is.
we most certainly would win and let us voice our opinion publicly instead of being afraid of saying what we think of homos
McCain is using his daughter and his staff to bash the base because he lost again
we need to find a conservative like JD hayworth and get him to take mccain’s place in the next election
I thought they already were in the Demo(butcrack)ic Party.
Taking political advice from Mr. Schmidt would be the same as asking Rosie O’Doughnuts about dieting.
No. But, I do understand mathematics and demographics. Take a look at the last election results. The red is shrinking and it's retreating to the south. A regional party is not a force to be reckoned with. The conservative movement is about to go the way of the Woolly Mammoth in North America because it can't find a way to appeal to people living someplace other than the old south.
That wasn't the question in my post, I asked if he was for changing the meaning of words to appease the opposition.
correct it is time to bring this homo problem to light, let us talk about it and use this subject in the elections, infact concentrate on this subject in districts where we have open seats
guarantee the left will not like it but if we showed videos of them on their parades and told the folks that we think it is better having a man and wife etc. we would win.
if they say bigot hate bla bla thn make an AD saying where is their tolerance to a different view point
IOW mccain had a homosexual advising him to avoid the religious people. No wonder the mccain camp was run so incompetent.
The staffers had no connection to 98% of america. McCAin had a sexual hedonist fringe campaign leader running a McCain campaign to protect a hedonist fringe lifestyle of the DC beltway.
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