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George W. Bush on Gay Marriage, Immigration, and Why Obama Kept His Terrorism Policies
ABC News ^
| 7/7/2013
| Chris Good
Posted on 07/07/2013 9:11:35 AM PDT by markomalley
President George W. Bush cautioned against criticizing gay couples, saying in an interview on This Week that you shouldnt criticize others until youve examined your own heart.
Bush had waded into the revitalized same-sex marriage debate last week - if only barely - in a comment to a reporter in Zambia, who asked whether gay marriage conflicts with Christian values.
I shouldnt be taking a speck out of someone elses eye when I have a log in my own, Bush said last week.
In an interview in Tanzania with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, the former president explained his comment further.
I meant its very important for people not to be overly critical of someone else until youve examined your own heart, Bush told Karl.
As president, Bush opposed gay marriage, and Republicans pushed ballot measures to ban it at the state level. The topic has seen rejuvenated discussion after the Supreme Court overturned the federal ban on same-sex marriage, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; amnesty4illegals; bush; bush43; bushbegone; doma; georgebush; georgewbush; goaway; homosexualagenda; jonathankarl; nomorebushes; tanzania; zambia
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To: trisham
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posted on
07/07/2013 4:07:13 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: Guenevere
122
posted on
07/07/2013 4:07:42 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: DoughtyOne
Is this a Freeper Editorial?
If not, why not?
123
posted on
07/07/2013 4:11:14 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
To: Lazamataz
I’ll polish it up, and post it on it’s own thread in a few days.
It will get less than ten responses.
I believe it’s the core of what ails us. This isn’t as popularly accepted as some folks think it is though.
124
posted on
07/07/2013 4:18:13 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: DoughtyOne
125
posted on
07/07/2013 4:27:18 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: TADSLOS
Thank you. I appreciate it.
126
posted on
07/07/2013 4:30:18 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: DoughtyOne
Sounds like a mighty wind to me ...The (in your mind) Non conservative Bush’s happened to nominate and get appointed all of the Judges on the Supreme Court that voted the way you wanted on the Gay Marriage issue
Anthony Kennedy ( a Reagan appointment) voted the other way
So much for all your wonderful blather
127
posted on
07/07/2013 4:50:01 PM PDT
by
woofie
(rns everyne a)
To: DoughtyOne
Right on. I am so sick of these moral and intellectual inferiors like Bush lecturing us. Like we need them to tell us what to think, what to say, how to vote.
I just laugh at their idiotic condescension.
128
posted on
07/07/2013 5:08:31 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: DoughtyOne
Eloquent, moving poet. I would just add that it took a took the extraordinary leadership of Reagan in 1980. It's even harder now because
129
posted on
07/07/2013 5:18:49 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
To: woofie
Woofie you’ll be able to find a point to game once in a while if you wish to carry Bush’s luggage for him. I could just as easily ask you who gave us ObamaCare? Do you remember?
Roberts became a hemorrhoid on the ass of the U S on the day he came up with an indefensible test.
130
posted on
07/07/2013 6:19:35 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
131
posted on
07/07/2013 6:20:12 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Thanks DDDFD... You’re right.
132
posted on
07/07/2013 6:21:07 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: DManA
133
posted on
07/07/2013 6:21:38 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
To: markomalley
What does homosexual “marriage” have to do with sin?
To: markomalley
George Bush obviously was never against gay marriage or abortion, he just said hat he had to to get elected. What issues was he conservative on again?
To: petitfour
You know, “sodomy” and “thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman” and all that stuff.
You’re kidding, right?
136
posted on
07/07/2013 7:12:59 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: markomalley; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; Impy
I played the clip of the interview and it sounds like he wants to stay out of it (the debate.)
Good! We have enough headaches without him taking sides,
137
posted on
07/07/2013 8:02:30 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
To: sickoflibs
Anyone who out of cowardice doesn’t stand up for the truth is helping us go to hell.
So he is either a coward or a social liberal.
Fie on both.
138
posted on
07/07/2013 8:15:25 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: little jeremiah
139
posted on
07/07/2013 8:47:55 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
To: little jeremiah
140
posted on
07/07/2013 8:55:10 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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