Posted on 04/04/2013 7:06:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Republican politicians wrestle with same-sex marriage, the daughter of a party icon — former President Ronald Reagan — said in an interview this week that she believes her father would have “been puzzled” by the political fuss and would have supported marriage for gay people.
Patti Davis, a Los Angeles writer and the onetime rebellious daughter of Reagan and his second wife, Nancy, said in a telephone interview that she never discussed same-sex marriage with the former president, who died in 2004 just as it was emerging as a political issue.
But Ms. Davis, now 60, offered several reasons her father, who would have been 102 this year, would have bucked his party on the issue: his distaste for government intrusion into private lives, his Hollywood acting career and close friendship with a lesbian couple who once cared for Ms. Davis and her younger brother Ron while their parents were on a Hawaiian vacation — and slept in the Reagans’ king-size bed.
“I grew up in this era where your parents’ friends were all called aunt and uncle,” Ms. Davis said. “And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times.” She added, “We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”
Once when she and her father were watching a Rock Hudson movie, Ms. Davis said, she remarked that the actor “looked weird” kissing his female co-star. She said her father explained that Mr. Hudson “would rather be kissing a man,” and conveyed, without using the words homosexual or gay, the idea that “some men are born wanting to love another man.” Years later, in 1985, Mr. Hudson died of AIDS.
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Your father loved people but he would NEVER change 5000 YEARS as God gave us MARRIAGE with Adam and Eve, NOT Adam and STeve.
Blame Nancy for those two HORRIBLE kids. Maureen and Michael were raised by Jane, they came out perfectly!!
I do not believe her.
This fits the pattern of homosexualists claiming the dead.
What next John Wayne is a liberal and founded a conservative group in order to support homsexuals?
Miss. Davis has no credibility.
Johnny Mathis was good friends with Nancy.
And Merv Griffin was one of Reagan’s honorary pallbearers.
Whatever his gay rights views were when he was alive are irrelevant. I guarantee you that now he has the RIGHT point of view about gay rights in the place where he is right now.
Jane Wyman’s mothering skills must have been much better, without question. President Reagan must have had so much angst and disappointment with his two youngest. He must have seen that something was amiss with them.
Maureen and Michael were loving and devoted to their dad. Michael did go through an emotional time concerning his adoption, but he has overcome that, matured, and has been a wonderful spokesman for his dad and what he stood for. Maureen was a most loving and supportive daughter. Her premature death was heartbreaking. Both Michael and Maureen honored their father. Patty and Ron, Jr. have dishonored him - shamefully so.
Her entire thesis simply proves how distant she kept herself from her own father, so distant she did not even know her father’s views on some of the most important social/political questions of human history.
It is sad, and ironic that solid conservative Americans, some of who have posted on this very thread, have a greater understanding of the views and belief system of President Reagan, Patty’s father.
As we all know, Patti Davis didn't agree with her father on a lot of things, so this interview is meaningless in so far as it tries to go to the question of what would Ronald Reagan think.
I wonder what made Michael Reagan different from his siblings...
See here:
Michael Reagan, the son of the-late President Ronald Reagan, defended his support for traditional marriage on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live” Wednesday, but also rescinded his crass remark that same-sex marriage might possibly lead to the acceptability of murder.
Morgan was critical of Reagan’s March 28 op-ed titled, “It’s time for churches to fight back,” in which he suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states, there will be a dramatic cultural shift in the country.
Reagan wrote that legalizing same-sex marriage “inevitably will lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and no different than traditional marriage. There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder.”
The conservative author and radio host and son of former President Ronald Reagan, told Morgan he retracts the word murder, because people told him that comment went too far, but he stands behind his message that Christian and Jewish leaders must take a stand and defend traditional marriage en masse in public and on television.
Morgan, who’s Catholic, said he understands the religious argument against same-sex marriage, but added that he believes it’s the same argument that was used to prohibit interracial marriage. He then noted the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia in which the court ruled that states’ laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
In Reagan’s opinion, the two issues are not comparable. He said the laws that prohibited interracial marriage were wrong, which is why he stands by God’s laws.
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Maureen was conservative too
well, if the Prophet Samuel couldn’t discipline his sons such that the Israelites had to demand a King when he grew old... I guess getting 50% right with your kids is better.
No she wasn't. I knew her and the people around her. She was a classic GOP moderate.
Oh, the Times just figured Michael is just another firebreathing conservative neanderthal who has yet to fully evolve. It shows how they regard all conservatives. That birdcage liner of a "newspaper" can't go Tango Uniform soon enough!
You can bet your bottom dollar that BMG's rabid opposition to Reagan in 1976 when Reagan challenged Feckless Ford was rooted in Ford's enthusiasm for abortion and Reagan's opposition. On that basis, Ayn Rand endorsed Ford over Reagan in her Ayn Rand Letter. Goldwater, Ayn Rand and Gerald and Betty Ford, as social issue revolutionaries, have no legitimate place in the post-Reagan GOP and conservative movement.
On homosexuality, Reagan opposed the Briggs Amendment in California which would have banned homosexuals from employment as teachers in government schools, noting that if the issue were sexual abuse of minors, no such abuse whether homosexual or heterosexual was acceptable and all such behavior was criminal, and that, in the absence of such criminality, the sexual inclinations of the teacher were irrelevant. That is a loooooooong way from approving homosexuality much less homosexual "marriage."
While governor of California, Reagan signed a somewhat permissive abortion bill and changed his mind completely within a year and even went personally door to door as governor circulating initiative petitions for the attempted repeal of the statute he had signed.
The posthumous attempt to revise Ronaldus Maximus into an amoral or immoral knee-jerk libertinian on moral issues is a disservice to the great man's earned reputation. Note that the sourced article is in the New York Slimes and the source is a largely discredited Patti Reagan who NEVER supported her father politically but now tries to emerge (genetically???) as an expert on his ideas, giving her aid and comfort to his enemies.
She never talked to him about it but she knows what he thought about it... riiiight
“He’s dead... I can pull anything out of my ass and you lamestream presstitutes will print it”, said Ms Davis
Maureen's death was a huge shot to the gut for me.....I thought she was just FABULOUS!! I watched her on CSPAN with other White House children(actually adults) and she just SHONE!!! LBJ's daughter told the most PITIFUL, disgusting stories about her dad, and Maureen told UPLIFTING FUNNY stories. What a loss.
We can’t know what Reagan’s views would be, but Patti’s views would be a slam dunk for that reporter.
Thanks for the ping!
Oh yes we can and WE do! He spoke about marriage and homosexuality.
See the quotes in post-9 and you'll know why Reagan's stated view was censored by the NY Slime and their political dummy Patti.
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