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Veteran Republican senator: Marriage equality ‘is the new conservative position’
www.rawstory.com ^ | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:58 EDT | By Stephen C. Webster

Posted on 03/27/2013 10:42:22 AM PDT by redreno

Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD), a Vietnam veteran who served in Congress for more than two decades, said Tuesday on Current TV that the movement for marriage equality is much like the movement for racial equality, and confidently declared that the Republican Party is now in the process of making the right to marry “the new conservative position.”

“The main thing that caused me to change my mind was my work with veterans groups,” he told “Viewpoint” host John Fugelsang, explaining that he’s worked with a gay couple who want to marry and have a family.

“It’s something like in World War II, we had the African-American veterans who fought, but when they got home they couldn’t vote,” Pressler added. “So now-a-days we have gays in the military — we had gays in the military before, but now we have openly gay people in the military — when they come out we tell them they are not entitled to this civil right.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Philosophy; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: conservativeposition; currenttv; fauxrepublican; homosexualagenda; larrypressler; lgbt; pressler; southdakota; vietnamveteran
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1 posted on 03/27/2013 10:42:22 AM PDT by redreno
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“It’s something like in World War II, we had the African-American veterans who fought, but when they got home they couldn’t vote,”

Huh?
2 posted on 03/27/2013 10:44:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: redreno

Pressler a Republican? Last I checked, he endorsed BHO for president.


3 posted on 03/27/2013 10:44:45 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: redreno

Gay Mafia Money Busy Republicans as easy at it buys Democrats.


4 posted on 03/27/2013 10:45:19 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: redreno

Larry Pressler, whose loss to Tim Johnson in 1996 left us one vote short on a balanced budget amendment. We really don’t need his opinion.


5 posted on 03/27/2013 10:46:05 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: redreno

At this rate, every Republican in DC will be in favor of Gay Marriage by the end of June.


6 posted on 03/27/2013 10:46:32 AM PDT by OKRA2012
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To: redreno

“marriage equality”

So they are going to ensure every man has a cute wife?


7 posted on 03/27/2013 10:47:18 AM PDT by edcoil (If the man was accused of leadership, there would not be enough evidence to convict him.)
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To: redreno

He is an idiot. He is a RINO. He is not a Republican.


8 posted on 03/27/2013 10:48:12 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: redreno

Meaningless politico rhetoric. Republicans have no conservative credentials anymore.


9 posted on 03/27/2013 10:48:39 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: redreno

Thank God this sick bastard is gone from the senate.


10 posted on 03/27/2013 10:49:11 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: redreno

Former?

who?


11 posted on 03/27/2013 10:49:54 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: redreno

Like hell, you degenerate scumbag.


12 posted on 03/27/2013 10:50:02 AM PDT by greene66
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To: redreno
he’s worked with a gay couple who want to marry and have a family.

I hate to break this sad news to him, but nature discriminates too. Even if they pretend to marry, they will only be able to pretend to have a family.

13 posted on 03/27/2013 10:51:09 AM PDT by Pollster1
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

But he’s a Vietnam vet who nursed sick puppies back to health on his lollypop ranch for the poor before serving in the senate.


14 posted on 03/27/2013 10:51:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: redreno

I’d like to say I’ve left the Republican party. The truth is, the party has left me.


15 posted on 03/27/2013 10:52:16 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: redreno

Another fabulous “republican” showing his fabulous reasoning. Certainly the coming divide in the Republican party over gay marriage will be fabulous for democrats. The idiocy of it all is mind boggling, people are going batsh*t nuts every day before our eyes. It is quite a sight to behold.


16 posted on 03/27/2013 10:53:50 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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Sorry but married couples have the POTENTIAL to REPRODUCE and can actually reproduce.

Gays can`t reproduce with gays.

Ergo, there is no such thing as marriage equality cos the evidence supports Male and Female marriages as more powerful and therefore superior to gays getting together.

Ergo if the former is superior, then the latter must be inferior by essence and comparison -

Conclusion: Superior and Inferior by definition cannot be equal.

Sim-ple duhhhhhh

Ergo "Gay marriage" is an oxymoron. =thus the term "gay marriage" is a falsehhood, a lie.

17 posted on 03/27/2013 10:55:49 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Marchione.)
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To: bmwcyle

It’s time for people to catch on to the fact that RINO=Republican=RINO.

Time for a new party—and yes, I know how hard that is.


18 posted on 03/27/2013 10:56:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

YES!
Pressler said he voted for Ubama in 2008 and endorsed him again in 2012.

Pressler is a scumbag with no clue about “conservatism”.


19 posted on 03/27/2013 10:56:42 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: OKRA2012

This is an effort to avoid the Federal Marriage Amendment.


20 posted on 03/27/2013 11:00:07 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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