Mehlman: Time for GOP to support gay marriage

CNN Ticker ^ | December 10, 2010 | Alexander Mooney

[Hawk720]

Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee Chairman who last summer announced he was gay, says it's time the GOP publicly support same-sex marriage.

Mehlman's new position – once all but unthinkable from the man who ran former President George Bush's 2004 reelection bid – comes more than three months after he shocked many in Washington with his announcement.

But in an interview with the website The Big Think, Mehlman says he has come to believe that supporting gay rights is a logical extension of the principles the GOP seeks to advance.

"I do hope the Republican Party in the future, will look in the mirror and leaders in the party will think about where we stand and say, 'You know what? The party of Lincoln ought to be about letting adults who love each other to be married.' And the party of Lincoln ought to be about giving people more personal freedom," Mehlman told the website, in remarks published Friday.

[fwdude]

Ken “Wormtongue” Mehlman, go get shot by an elf.

[fwdude]

Sodomy has never been, isn’t now, and never will be a conservative value. It is the antithesis of conservatism... period!

[gogeo]

Ken Mehlman, the former Republican National Committee Chairman who last summer announced he was gay, says it's time the GOP publicly support same-sex marriage...

I've always wanted to ask about statements like this...why now? Was it time two years ago? One? When did it become time? How did you know? What makes it time?

[gogeo]

"I do hope the Republican Party in the future, will look in the mirror and leaders in the party will think about where we stand and say, 'You know what? The party of Lincoln ought to be about letting adults who love each other to be married.' And the party of Lincoln ought to be about giving people more personal freedom," Mehlman told the website, in remarks published Friday...

They've got more personal freedom than they can intelligently use. This is about entitlement, not freedom...access to life insurance policies, pensions, and medical insurance...and respectability.

It burns me that this guy was the RNC Chairman. W, we hardly knew ye.

[gogeo]

Well said.

[Sola Veritas]

“But in an interview with the website The Big Think, Mehlman says he has come to believe that supporting gay rights is a logical extension of the principles the GOP seeks to advance.”

Only a deviant or fool would make such an ILLOGICAL extrapolation!

[heye2monn]

True indeed. An endless system of polyamory, spreading and changing every day, according to the whims and lusts of its “loving” participants.

[dennisw]

This must be Mehlman’s coming out party

[who knows what evil?]

Time for Ken Mehlman to switch to the democrats...

[MrEdd]

Funny how one after another the inner core of the Bush administration keeps giving credence to the allegations social conservatives were making seven nine years ago.

No more RINOs.

Take Tokyo Rove with you Ken.

[Morpheus2009]

How about government getting out of marriage completely and leaving it to the churches?

I’ll support there. There’s no homo marriage in my church.

There are no marriages of this type in my church either. The real fact, however, is that this “marriage” argument ties into what the government doles out and subsidizes, or promotes. People can do whatever they please, according to the laws of this nation, so long as its private, and the “rights” of insurance, adoption, and inheritance are already existent, if one desires for them. This is about using the government as a means to advertise and insult religion, and that’s what people are against. Churches should have their own right to a separate morality from the government, so long as sexual abuse or murder, or theft are not part of what it orders out, i.e. disrupting the order of society.

[LomanBill]

ARTHUR: What happens now?

KEN MEHLMAN: Well, now, uh, Clarke Cooper , Meghan McCain, Mary Cheney and I wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the log cabin, taking The Party(tm) by surprise -- not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!

ARTHUR: Who leaps out?

KEN MEHLMAN: Uh,Clarke Cooper , Meghan McCain, Mary Cheney and I. Uh, leap out of the log cabin, uh and uh....

ARTHUR: Oh....

KEN MEHLMAN: Oh.... Um, l-look, if we built this large wooden Rhinocerous -- [twong]

ALL:  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!  Run away!
      [splat]


LOMANBILL:  Oh, haw haw haw.

[so_real]

"Of course, loving the sinner means refusing to endorse his sin."

Agreed.