Posted on 08/26/2010 6:28:21 PM PDT by DesertRenegade
Same-sex marriage is back as a front-burner issue in American politics.
First, on August 4, a federal judge in San Francisco held that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, striking down part of the California Constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered an expedited schedule to consider this case, with arguments to be held in December.
Second, former RNC chairman and 2004 Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman came out this week, announcing he’s homosexual, and pushing the Republican Party to support the homosexual-rights agenda. Republicans leaders are beginning to weigh in on where they stand, including on the agenda’s centerpiece: Redefining marriage.
The Republican Party has an official position on same-sex marriage. It’s found in the 2008 GOP platform, which is the clear and uncontestable Republican position until the 2012 convention. When one of your authors (Ken Blackwell) was serving as vice chairman of the GOP Platform Committee, there was a singular focus on producing a party platform that fully reflects the vast majority of Republican Party members.
The GOP platform could not be more explicit: Marriage is the union of one man and one woman. The fundamental institution of human civilization should be preserved as it has been known through the entirety of American history and Western civilization. Supporters of same-sex marriage had the full opportunity to make their case to the party. They made it, and they lost.
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“using it to convince Blacks and Hispanics that they are better off voting Republicans because the Democrats are 100% gay friendly”
BINGO! Ethnic communities are overwhelmingly against the homosexual lifestyle freaks - especially the Black churches. If the GOP got its act together it could galvanize a lot of these groups to oppose this sodomite insanity.
Two days ago, I joined the Veterans Coalition of the Constitution Party. The few weaknesses I see in the CP are absolutely miniscule compared to the moral and patriotic equivocation I see on the part of the Republican Party.
For those interested in comparison, please go to: Constitution Party Page Including Links: Principles & Platform The link to the Veterans Coalition is on that page.
As always, I am a conservative independent, pledging support to any true conservative in any race. Pray, my friends.
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Correct. Good article.
See #66. Should have pinged you originally.
Your link to the Constitution Party isn’t working.
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That's either hopeless defeatism (note my tagline), or the attempt to lower others' morale on purpose.
I don't care which one it is. Someone with that attitude either needs to get some spine or some morals.
I pinged it last night (above) to both lists but heck this needs to get noticed. The traitors in the GOP are either trying to destroy the Republican party on purpose or just trying to push the homosexual agenda and don’t care what happens to the party.
One or the other or I guess both.
The natural family is the very foundation of human civilization. We can see the social chaos due to the partial desctruction right now - rampant divorce, sex outside of marriage, abortion, acceptance and even promotion of perversion, pornography, etc.
Homosexual “marriage” and all the baggage that comes with it will be the attempted final blow.
The social violence and chaos will be unimaginable. And what happens to cultures when there is chaos and violence and a whole lot of feral humans? People actually beg for a totalitarian government.
That is the end result.
Michael steele would be counting on that.
McCain would be overjoyed with that.
RINOs hate republicans.
civil unions are just talking points of homosexuals.
The PRESENT LAW provides for cohabitation agreements. Does the same job, enforcable in court, and generally the forms are free or less than $40.00.
This debate is not about homosexuals, it is about attacking marriage and who controls the core of society. Homosexuals are just tools for the socialists.
No, it's an informed understanding of the practical reality. There is NOT even close to enough support to pass a marriage amendment. If you believe otherwise, you have no idea how constitutional amendments are passed in this country. They're HARD to pass, that's why there has been only 17 of them in the 223 years that have passed since the the first Constitutional Convention and initial adoption of the Constitution. It doesn't take a majority to pass a constitutional amendment, it takes a super-majority. There is not a super-majority of support to ban homosexual marriage.
I also understand how the federal judiciary works, and I watch the Court closely enough to predict how Kennedy will vote on this issue - he's going to vote with the liberals. I think there's even a chance that Roberts and perhaps Alito vote with the liberals as well - we'll see. People forget that Roberts litigated two gay (for the homosexuals) cases when he was in private practice. In any event, it only takes Kennedy to make homosexual marriage the law of the land, and that will come probably sometime in 2012 or 2013 at the latest.
I don't deal in fantasy, I deal in reality. If you think that's "defeatist", so be it.
That's fine for them; let them do what they want in the privacy of their homes and social clubs. It is their insistence on adopting children, infiltrating the schools with propaganda, and LOWERING THE AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT that are the problems.
If a person actually has conservative principles but is constantly telling others stuff like "It's over, it's hopeless, they'll win, get used to it" - they're as bad as that coward in "Saving Private Ryan" who refused to deliver the ammo and caused so many deaths. Cowards can go to hell, as far as I'm concerned.
And those who are not the cowards with supposed principles are just regular leftists (aka "pragmatists" and "realists" - btw, so well described in "Screwtape" and "That Hideous Strength") who want to instill fear and defeatism in conservatives so their side can win.
It's that simple. Read my tagline by C.S.Lewis. He was right.
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