Good question....
Wtf is wrong with that man (Simpson)?
For one thing, the GOP including Santorum has NOT focused on social issues. Santorum has committed any sin except being a decent man.
Well Allen, where do you draw the line? Just another anything goes apologist. These folks just want to have a free for all. True anarchists
Simpson ‘useful idiot,’ current FReeper says
Also the claim of homophobia is not based on Simpson “knowing” Santorum, it is based on a public statement by Santorum.
I guess Simpsom believes GOP needs to stand for Gays On Parade. I don’t.
Gays are fine with me, doesn’t mean they have to get married, raise kids, or teach everyone about having “two moms”.
I think Alan Simpson is a skeeve. Go back to the Clarence Thomas hearings, where Simpson started making bizarre sexual remarks.
Government staying out of your private life, means you get to believe what you want to in your private life.
Including, you have the right to uphold a 3000 year old moral tradition. The one our system of liberty and limited government is rooted in.
Simpson was chosen by Obama to be on his econ-ignore team because he’s a dyed in the wool rino.
Santorum has already explained why social issues are important: when the family fails, then America fails.
Is it any simpler than that? These behaviors cripple the family, and that cripples the nation.
It’s like saying, “He Ruskie-Phobic. I thought we were sposed to mind our own business, not russia’s. So, let’s get rid of the military.”
Cripple the military and you cripple the nation.
Not even a real question.
Calling or labeling something WRONG is not invading anyones bedroom.
You seem to advocate anything goes - sexually. As if no one should feel guilty about their ‘leanings’ and that no one really can say what is right or wrong. Rubbish.
In the article, Santorum spoke of bestiality and homosexuality. For the record, BOTH behaviors (and they are behaviors) are wrong, reprehensible and disgusting, having no positives for society at large. So, IF you are unable to say thet homosexuality is wrong, what then allows you to say that bestiality is? That necrophilia is? That polygamy is? Oh, what a slippery slope you find yourself on.
There IS a definition of right and wrong, unchanging per societal winds, called the bible. What was wrong 4000 years ago, surprisingly is still wrong today, despite your desire to believe otherwise.
IF you allow wrong to exist, without calling it out, labelling it as such, it will flourish and we see those fruits today (no pun intended). I for one am not blinded by
gray areas, and moral relativism. It is wrong.
I guess it’s the difference between the Liberterian viewpoint that pretty much says if it doesn’t hurt someone leave it alone, and the Conservative fundamentalist view that if the bible says it’s a sin then government might have a right to “fix” it. This is probably one of the reasons that our founders included separation of Church and State in the First Amendment.
By allowing government to confer special rights, one concedes that our rights come from the government.
Peer inside the skull bone tweets of real gerbalists like Alicia Budicha, Bob Sheiffer, Norah O’Donnell, David Gregory, etc., if you dare.
Notice how carefully they are discussing GOPers.
Better yet, why are the atheists lecturing Christians ONLY and not other believers of other faiths? It gets a little ridiculous!
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works across party lines = criticizes fellow Republicans
No it’s not a good question. Destroying traditonal marriage along with the basic tenants of Christianity has nothing to do with being left alone.
No it’s not a good question. Destroying traditional marriage along with the basic tenants of Christianity has nothing to do with being left alone.
A relative of mine wrote a blog posting that was mildly critical of Simpson back when he was working on Obama’s deficit commission. Was stunned to learn that the ex-Senator TOOK PAINS TO TRACK HIM DOWN, to CALL HIM IN PERSON and to ARGUE AND CHASTISE HIM FOR THE CRITICISM!
What you are dealing with here is an extreme egomaniac who always has to be right and who has an extremely thin skin. To the point that he will spend time and money chasing down any small-time blogger who criticizes him.
I’m waiting for your call, Senator.
homop: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals
I doubt sincerely that Santorum fears homosexuals. What he fears is the damage they do to society and themselves.
I sincerely doubt his aversion to homosexuals is irrational. As a Christian his aversion is to their sin of homosexual actions not to the person and that is very rational.
Homophobia is a nonsense word made up by the left to denigrate anyone that does not agree with homosexual actions.
So I suggest the old fart Senator STFU and MoveOn...........
While Rome burns we will be fiddling with Santorum’s theological views. The economy really is that bad, to the point you could lose many of your religious freedoms. Greece is now ruled by an outside Eurocrat, bankruptcy can also cause severe moral decay.
I suggest someone come up with a factual, poll and election based retort to Neil Bortz type libertarians and establishment type Republicans.
We should NOT try to change minds on the abortion issue or the gay marriage issue, with this work.
We should instead approach them with the “Hey, I respect YOUR beliefs, but you are wrong to say that Social Conservatism is bad for the Republican Party Because history and statistics proves otherwise!”
Show the number of times gay marriage has been defeated at the polls, even in LIBERAL states.
Show the actual exit polls on the abortion issue. NRLC has often highlighted the “prolife increment” that shows that most of those who vote, single-issue, on abortion, vote prolife.
Show the fact that, when it comes to actual LEGISLATION, like Parental Consent, Parental Notification, Informed Consent, 3rd trimester bans, bans on tax funding of abortion, safety regs for abortion provider offices, etc., that the PROLIFE side wins majorities in ANY public opinion survey.
I am a Newt guy, but at this moment I think Rick S. has a real shot.
You Santorum folks need to do your research and come up with factual, statistical, historically accurate responses, however, if you want to help Rick fight off this garbage.
“Elections are not about saving souls, elections are about getting souls who agree with you, to the Polls!”
Show the squishy crowd and the Libertarian crowd that they are WRONG on the “electability” issue.
Then? The naysayers and cowards will be forced to admit that they are opposed to the social conservative message, itself, rather than “electability”.
This, alone, will SILENCE much of the opposition in RINO and Libertarian camps.
Does a fetus with a full complement of human DNA have a right to privacy?
.. does the trip down the birth canal and closure of the ductus Botalli confer the right?