Posted on 11/05/2013 1:55:48 AM PST by markomalley
In Maine, a congressman running for governor came out as gay. In Hawaii, lawmakers girded for a vote to legalize same-sex marriage. And in the U.S. Senate, seven Republicans joined the Democrats in a landmark vote to ban workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
From one end of the country to the other, the overlapping developments on a single day underscored what a historic year 2013 has been for the U.S. gay-rights movement - "the gayest year in gay history," according to Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign, the movement's largest advocacy group.
Yet each of Monday's developments, while heralded by activists, revealed ways in which the gay-rights debate remains complex and challenging for many Americans.
Republicans, for example, are increasingly split on how to address gay-rights issues - some want to expand their party's following, while others want to satisfy the religious conservatives who make up a key part of the GOP base. More than 40 percent of Americans remain opposed to legalizing same-sex marriage. And even some prominent gays remain uncertain whether they should make their sexual orientation known to the world at large.
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The position is never to do something because it's the right thing to do.
May God have mercy.
So besides the obvious ones (Kirk, Lindsay, Portman), which other 4 RINOs voted for this?
If the republicans are little more than dem lite,
What is the point of supporting a republican?
Time for conservatives to stop the madness of socialism and this un-American mooselimb punk obammy.
Susan Collins on Maine co-sponsored the bill, and these are the other six Republicans who voted “Aye.”
Kirk
Portman
Heller (NV)
Hatch
Murkowski
Pat Toomey
Graham was either a “No” vote or an abstention (I’m not sure which one at this point).
There are many who now accept homosexuals and even turn their Church’s into houses of filth run by Homosexual Bishops and Priests.
Sex bot homo and hetero plays a much too important part in American lives today.
And we'll keep getting RINOs or Democrats until we stop trying to take the easy way out by blaming the "GOPe", and start trying to win Americans over to Conservative values.
That's why I no longer buy all that "faith in the American people" rhetoric. The country has gone down the drain.
Pat Toomey has turned out to be a Quisling of the first order. Conservatives went to bat for him on two occasions against Specter and he seems to look for ways to give them the middle finger. As for Ayotte, she’s the David Souter of the Senate. Time for New Hampshire to change their motto from “Live Free or Die” to “Live in Fear and Hide”
Time for conservatives to stop the madness of socialism and this un-American mooselimb punk obammy.
...and do what, exactly...vote third party...
...great track record third parties have...
A very small, but significant, percentage of conservatives are simply naively duped by a completely Leftist over-run propagandistic media which sells blatant lies as the truth. My elderly mom, who is a staunch conservative, is one of these who, although knowing the truth, buys into at least some of the falsehoods put out by the big networks. The Zimmerman/Martin fiasco was one of them.
That’s it pal,
just keep supporting crap like McLame, Dole, and Romney.
Rove bot I ain’t
Maybe Graham, yeah, that’s the ticket, just keep
supporting crap like graham cause he is a “republican”?
I want a new party to join. The republican party left me a long time ago.
“Many here still don’t get it. It’s not the GOP that’s turning left, it’s the voters who are electing them that are turning left. That’s why we’re getting RINOs.
And we’ll keep getting RINOs or Democrats until we stop trying to take the easy way out by blaming the “GOPe”, and start trying to win Americans over to Conservative values. “
JMHO but I think the wheel has turned. And it’s not going to turn back.
I have no idea what happens next or where we go from here but I do believe it’s a completely new ballgame.
I think some conservative values will always be appealing to the majority, but I think gay rights and same sex marriage and abortion are here for good. The younger voters seem ok with fiscal conservatism. Social conservatism...not so much.
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