Posted on 04/20/2009 5:21:53 AM PDT by kellynla
The government should have no say about marriage, and the plank in the Republican Party platform that calls for preserving marriage between a man and a woman should be scrapped, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R) told CNSNews.com.
Furthermore, the U.S. military should not differentiate between homosexuals and heterosexuals, said Whitman. The former governor spoke Friday at the Log Cabin Republicans’ (LCR) 2009 convention and symposium in Washington, D.C.
The Log Cabin Republicans are a group that seeks to promote homosexual and lesbian concerns within the GOP. In her speech, Whitman spoke about how inclusion can help the GOP become stronger, and she called on the Republican Party to veer in a moderate direction.
“Well, I am somebody who believes in the separation of church and state and that the government, frankly, ought to be out of the business of marriage entirely,” Whitman told CNSNews.com after her speech.
“It ought to be everybody – heterosexual, homosexual. When you go down and register to get married, that’s when the legal transfer of everything occurs and that’s a legal recognition of a relationship – and if you want to get married in a church, a temple, whatever, and you find one, great!” she said.
“Civil marriage, everybody,” said Whitman. “I am not against marriage for gay couples. I just think it would make the issue easier if it was civil marriage for everybody. And I am not against – I mean, it’s [same-sex marriage] not going to threaten my marriage. I mean my 35th anniversary is on Monday. It’s not going to threaten my marriage to have a gay couple married.”
Whitman said that the entire issue of same-sex marriage ought to be removed from the Republican Party platform. That part, entitled, “Preserving Tradition Marriage,” partly reads:
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Certainly I agree with you 100%.
Why do we keep catering to these sick individuals?
It seems an outright attack on heterosexuals that is gathering steam daily.
I dont care if they wish to have perverted sex any way they have it. BDSM, Fisting, anal sex, eating at the Y, I dont care, just shut up and do it , and stop trying to make me and others think if we dont join you in it, WE are the sick ones.
When marriage between one man and one woman forever, ends, this country is done for.
Those who are so eager to destroy marriage, should read about the Russian Experiment conducted during the later 1930s and early 1940s. Although the communists were ideologically opposed to marriage and the nuclear family, their destruction led to such severe problems that they had no choice but to reverse their agenda.
Who made her boss?!
I guess she doesn’t realize she is yesterday’s politician.
Well, my say is this: If the GOP pulls the traditional marriage plank, I pull out of the GOP.
Which of course is what the left wants to happen. They want the GOP to do something totally stupid like this and split the party.
There is one thing wrong with that theory though, if the GOP gets liberalized enough, then it will also split the Dems because some of them will go republican.
The idiots are ones like McCain that think somehow they can do without the conservatives and still win elections regardless of the results of the last two elections.
The RINOs and other Repugs who villify socially conservative values and those who hold them, are traitors. There is no other word for them. They should be honest and become Dems or form their own third party.
They are scum.
Anyone who thinks that there is a default position, other than “civilization founded on eternal spiritual verities” and “civilization founded on men’s whims and desires; [which will soon turn into anarchy, mayhem and then totalitarianism],” is self-deluded.
Urgent call for GOP-apologist, Cedric! Urgent! Code Blue!
Na, Na, Na, Na
Na, Na, Na, Na
Hey, Hey, Goodbye.
Goodbye Christie Milquetoast Rino Feckless Turd Whitman
Someone please tell me what issue this woman was ever conservative about? Everything I’ve read from her follows the standard liberal agenda.
I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps I should have said “per se” addressed in the Constitution. Their legitimacy wasn’t addressed because they were unthinkable, abominable. And they still are.
Well said, Man50D.
**GOP Should Remove ‘Traditional Marriage’ Plank from Party Platform”**
NNOOOO!
There’s nothing subjective about the common sense of Natural Law. I’m guessing Lewis was alluding to something more in the realm of “popular opinion” or “consensus,” not the “sense” that divines universal and timeless truths.
>>There’s nothing subjective about the
>>common sense of Natural Law.
Those who espouse Transhumanism / Postgenderism argue that their doctrine is “Natural Law” - going so far as to argue that homosexuality is an evolutionary step in the human species.
It is nothing less than a post-modern revision of the Nazi “Ubermensch”.
It is the product of subjective reason, and completely at odds with Scripture - which is the (Objective) Word of the Supreme Creator of the Universe.
RTFM. “Read The Field Manual”
Got Shemitta?
Just did a presentation on the two different views of the nature of man, and the conclusions that result from these assumptions.
Man evolved, is evolving, and some are superior to others.
vs
Man is Created and Fallen, perpetually sinful and imperfectible.
Even if man is evolving - he is most certainly irrevocably separated from the Creator, and confined within creation.
Thus the reconciliatory work of Christ, where that relationship is spiritualy restored.
Of course, the humanist’s (Gnostic/Luciferian) presumption that “God is dead, and they are god” is effectively a rejection of that reconcilation - or even the need to be reconciled.
It’s the same old lie:
“Go ahead, eat it... be like God...”
And all conclusory positions on all issues stem from these two basic and opposite assumptions.
Don’t got Shemitta, but I’ll read up. Thanks.
Wow . . . I’m way behind the times! I’m lucky (blissfully ignorant), in some respects, because I didn’t have to study anyone much more radical than David Hume (and I thought HE was nuts!). Sure, these isms are out there; but they’re making no more headway than Hume made, today’s disposable scholarship projects. That they use twisted interpretations of Natural Law can’t come as a surprise—they’re certainly not going to start with ethics as set forth in the Bible! The problem is, of course, that universities today treat all philosophies (and cultures and religions) as equals.
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