Murkowski becomes third Republican U.S. senator to back gay marriage

Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | June 19, 2013 | Yereth Rosen

[2ndDivisionVet]

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska publicly backed gay marriage on Wednesday, becoming the third Republican senator to do so as she spoke out ahead of potentially landmark rulings from the Supreme Court on the issue.

Murkowski, 56, wrote in an essay posted on her Senate website that her decision was swayed, in part, by meeting a lesbian couple from Anchorage, one of whom was in the National Guard, who had adopted four children.

"This first-class Alaskan family still lives a second-class existence," Murkowski said in her essay.

Her announcement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a challenge to California's ban on gay marriage and a separate lawsuit targeting a provision of federal law that denies same-sex couples certain benefits.

She joins Republican Senators Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois who earlier this year joined dozens of Democratic senators who support gay marriage. Twelve of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage.

Public opinion polls show a majority of Americans believe gay couples should have the right to wed, and Murkowski said in her essay that her decision was consistent with attitudes of "more and more Alaskans," especially the young.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Of course she did.

[Gay State Conservative]

[cripplecreek]

her decision was swayed, in part, by meeting a lesbian couple from Anchorage, one of whom was in the National Guard, who had adopted four children.

Oh big hairy assed deal. Hell one of my oldest friends is gay and I don't support gay marriage and neither does he. He's also not real fond of gays adopting children either.

[mohresearcher]

Just what we wanted: another RINO going the gay way.

[Viennacon]

Pathetic wretch. This old hag has been a RINO since day one. She’s more of a joke than Susan Collins.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

She probably wants to marry an Eskimo gal.

[DuncanWaring]

I thought Murkowski was formally not Republican.

[Yosemitest]

Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.

It was given by our Heavenly Father to test us
to see ... if we will OBEY our Heavenly Father,
and abide by His commandments, statues, and ordinances.

Someone once asked

"Why are they [homosexuals] all so angry?"

The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE".

rep·ro·bate \ˈre-prə-ˌbāt\ a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.


Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6.




2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.

They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.

3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3.

And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.

But will we OBEY our Heavenly Father?

[Pollster1]

Murkowski becomes third Republican U.S. senator to back gay marriage

Describing Murkowski as a republican is like describing Obama as an American.

[MichaelCorleone]

My support for the legalization of organized crime was in part a result of breaking bread with Tommy Lucchese one night at Carmines.

You can understand my position, can’t you Lisa?

[cuban leaf]

Hmmm. I wonder if I was wrong to leave the republican party back in 2004...

[BillyBoy]

Hmmm. Major typo in the headline and article. It refers to that socialist hag Murkowski as a “Republican U.S. senator” I don’t recall her being elected to the Senate as a Republican. I could have sworn that Republicans nominated Joe Miller and this witch ran against him.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

In other news, The Bible is still against homosexual marriage...you may win PC points by being PC but I am not sure you get any points by opposing the Almighty’s plan for one man and one woman to leave his father and join togeher in Holy Matrimony
Freegards
LEX

[cuban leaf]

Just what we wanted: another RINO going the gay way.

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Hate to break it to you, but the CONSERVATIVES that claim to be Republicans are now the RINO’s.

[cripplecreek]

Who said I oppose God?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Did anyone think this evil old harpy would do anything else?

[nickcarraway]

Thanks John Cornyn.

[traditional1]

"This first-class Alaskan family still lives a second-class existence"

First Class family, made up of two sex deviates?

This crap is sooooooo disgusting (promotion/pandering for the sex deviate vote, and the Progressives' intentional destruction of the Nuclear Family).

[nickcarraway]

She wants Bush to finally be able to marry Putin.

[yarddog]

I always thought of Alaska as a conservative state. Actually a very conservative state.

How in the world did she get elected there? There had to be massive voter fraud but that doesn’t seem to bother Republicans, they always just roll over and play dead when it comes time to fight.