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GOP Should Remove ‘Traditional Marriage’ Plank from Party Platform, Whitman Says
cnsnews.com ^ | April 20, 2009 | Josiah Ryan

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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1 posted on 04/20/2009 5:21:54 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: Salvation; NYer; narses; A.A. Cunningham

ping


2 posted on 04/20/2009 5:22:35 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Bitch.


3 posted on 04/20/2009 5:23:01 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: kellynla

OK, I’m waiting to hear the arguments for people to remain in a party that stomps on conservative principles at every turn.


4 posted on 04/20/2009 5:23:55 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: kellynla

Thanks RINO bitch....now leave and go join the ‘Rats where you belong.


5 posted on 04/20/2009 5:23:56 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: kellynla
Whitman should be asked to walk the plank - away from the party. However, that's just a pipedream on my part. It's not going to happen.

Geez....and people jump ugly on me when I say the GOP is dead.....

6 posted on 04/20/2009 5:23:57 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kellynla

Whitman and McCainette should go start their own party.


7 posted on 04/20/2009 5:24:22 AM PDT by Blogger (It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Ben Franklin)
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To: kellynla

If homosexuals want to vote conservative they’re more than welcome to do so. That doesn’t mean they should be accommodated.


8 posted on 04/20/2009 5:24:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: kellynla

Walt Whitman?


9 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:05 AM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: kellynla
GOP WHIG Party Should Remove ‘Traditional Marriage’ Plank from Party Platform, Whitman Says

There, That's better...

10 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:15 AM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: kellynla
Whitman spoke about how inclusion can help the GOP become stronger

Becoming one with the democrat party would help the GOP become stronger, too.

Oh, wait... we've already tried that...

11 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:25 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: kellynla

The GOP has become irrelevant. They just don’t seem to get it.


12 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:27 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr
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To: kellynla

GOP should remove Witless Whitman and any plank smuggler from the party.


13 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:30 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: kellynla
Every dingbat with an anticonservative message is handed a megaphone.

Clueless, statist, loser.


14 posted on 04/20/2009 5:26:33 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: kellynla

If winning means giving up everything you believe in, i would rather lose......Besides, this strategy never works. Being anti-abortion and pro-traditional marriage are the #1 and #2 reasons people vote GOP.


15 posted on 04/20/2009 5:27:22 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: kellynla
Remember when Rush Limbaugh was telling listeners it was a good idea to vote for this woman? Did you remember when Sean Hannity was out promote the candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Voting for RINOs doesn't work.

It's disgusting while Whitman, fat Meghan McCain and others try to destroy what marriage is that both Limbaugh and Hannity remain silent. It's to for those two put up or shut up or admit they don't care about the issue.

16 posted on 04/20/2009 5:27:55 AM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: kellynla

And they wonder why conservatives are leaving the GOP in droves.


17 posted on 04/20/2009 5:28:04 AM PDT by gieriscm (07 FFL / 02 SOT - www.extremefirepower.com)
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To: kellynla
“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.

"In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."

-Judges 21:25

18 posted on 04/20/2009 5:29:44 AM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: rightwingextremist1776

My thoughts exactly, then Chrissey too can have that feel running down her leg.


19 posted on 04/20/2009 5:32:36 AM PDT by biff
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To: kellynla
former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman R(INO) told CNSNews.com.

Slight correction.

20 posted on 04/20/2009 5:33:40 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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