The new GOP? Republican openly campaigns with gay partner

washingtontimes.com ^ | 02/14/2014 | Cheryl K. Chumley

[massmike]

A Republican seeking congressional office and touting a reform agenda has just made history by becoming the first politician on the campaign trail to bring his gay partner to the forefront, with an advertising film.

“I don’t see it as such a big deal,” said openly gay Carl DeMaio, of his campaign ad for California office that shows him holding hands with his gay partner, in The Daily Mail. He downplayed the ad further, saying that it’s not really different from other politician hopefuls who show their “spouse, their children, their household pets” in their ads, the newspaper said.

In the ad, Mr. DeMaio and his partner are seen draped in a rainbow flag, while an off-camera voice says: “He believes in equality and diversity and is a defender of our personal freedoms.”

[re_nortex]

...as long as he supports individual Freedom...

Sodomites stand in fierce opposition to genuine freedom and true liberty for they are deceitful and wicked. They seek to destroy the moral underpinnings of America. Without that firm foundation founded on God's Principles, there is no freedom.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Would this gay campaigning partner be willing to vote for someone who is actually conservative on gov’t spending, education, immigration, war on terror,business and property rights, the 2nd Amendment and everything else even if said candidate did not support state enforced gay marriage and adoption? If so, then I would say his private sexual life is of nobody’s concern. Of course, very few in the GLBT community would be willing to do this.”

If they are campaigning together as a homo couple then you can bet they support state enforced gay marriage and adoption.

Ask them their position on Boy Scouts/..

[freedom462]

So now atheism is in the same category as pedophilia and abortion? It is excessive enough to put homosexual acts between consenting adults in the same category as sexually assaulting children, but now atheism is at the same moral level as abortion and raping children too?

[freedom462]

Fair point. One caveat - a true conservative position on the Boy Scouts would depend on whether or not Boy Scouts get federal subsidies. As Walter E Williams as said, anytime an organization g ts federal subsidies, there are consequences to that and one or the consequences is that there is naturally much less freedom to operate as they want. The true conservative position on the Boy Scouts is that they would need to get rid of any and all federal subsidies and then operate as they which and exercise fully their freedom of association.

[Manic_Episode]

What are his positions? NO WAIT!!!!!!!!!

[aft_lizard]

Except social conservatism and fiscal liberalism kept the south under its heal for a century. I still know many who are registered democrats but vote republican but only for social and not necessarily fiscal reasons. While they may not want to run high deficits, they are very much ok with “smart” and “moral” governance that helps the poor.

[greene66]

Never voted for a Dem in my entire life. I’ve always voted exclusively GOP.

But if confronted with the vomitous option of this GOP pervert on a ticket, I would very well break down and vote for the opposing Dem for the very first time.

[Paulie]

“Neither do I, as long as he supports individual Freedom, fiscal conservatism and is against 0bama in general...”

That's a pretty tall order don't you think? Do you think this guy will not support the homosexual agenda which, by the way, has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with the violation of the 1A, 10A, freedom of association, freedom to do business with whom you choose, freedom of religion, and who knows what other anti-American evils the agenda brings with it.

Even straight Repubs are not fiscal conservatives; absolutely no reason for a gay to be.

You're either fooling yourself or you're trying to fool others on FR.

[re_nortex]

It is excessive enough to put homosexual acts between consenting adults in the same category as sexually assaulting children, but now atheism is at the same moral level as abortion and raping children too?

Well seeing that we disagree about the racial component for the obesity rate in Mississippi (in another thread this evening), it's not surprising that we have vastly different viewpoints concerning sodomy.

Simply put, a Righteous God destroyed with his Sodom and Gomorrah because these so-called "consenting adult" were committing that horrible, disgusting sin. And indeed, I won't backtrack one bit. Homosexuality, a destroyer of life as Almighty God intended, is every bit as abominable as killing babies. The Marxist homosexual agenda is totally on board with both abortion and pedophilia.

[freedom462]

I was in that post asking primarily about your equating atheism with abortion and even more so about equating atheism with sexually assaulting children. It is one thing to say that homosexualism and abortion are int eh same moral category, but atheism being int he same moral category as abortion and sexually assaulting children? Seriously?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Fair point. One caveat - a true conservative position on the Boy Scouts would depend on whether or not Boy Scouts get federal subsidies. As Walter E Williams as said, anytime an organization g ts federal subsidies, there are consequences to that and one or the consequences is that there is naturally much less freedom to operate as they want. The true conservative position on the Boy Scouts is that they would need to get rid of any and all federal subsidies and then operate as they which and exercise fully their freedom of association.”

I donated to the BSs many years and respected them for standing up to gay activists.

When they changed the policy to accept gay kids but NOT adults, which affected very little, I bucked many here and decided to cut them some slack and still donate.

But when that judge forced gay marriage on Utah and those Boy Scouts came out to give free pizza to the newly married gays ON CAMERA, that one did it for me.

I always try to be reasonable but I have my own clear line. They were promoting perversion

And its really a shame. A great organization destroyed by giants.

[BAW]

Carl DeMaio is a good man and has a good track record here in San Diego. I would MOST DEFINITELY vote for him.

[freedom462]

And as far as Southern obesity and marriage breakup rates go, for both of them you would have to show reliable, unbiased studies if you were going to try to back up the claim that Southern blacks are the sole reason why the South as the highest obesity rates and the highest family breakup rates in the nation. Particularly since anyone whose been to the South can readily report on the sheer numbers of overweight locals, black and white alike. Do you have any such useful studies and publications available?

[freedom462]

I actually understand where you are coming from completely. My point was that a key issue was always whether or not the BS were allowing themselves to be dependent on federal subsidies. After all, here on FR, one thing that unites virtually every poster as long been the severe dangers in depending on federal subsidies of any kind, and it may indeed have been that the BS were no exception. If there were getting public subsidies, their hands were always gonna be tied until they made the commitment to be an organization supported entirely by the free market.

[freerepublicchat]

I don't really care -- as long as he agrees that traditional marriage and family formation are special.

Homosexual behavior is an indulgence that is only possible in a prosperous community. And a prosperous community rests on the bedrock of the traditional family.

If civilization suffers too greatly because of family breakdown, many rights and freedoms will disappear, including any right to homosexual relations. The support of the traditional family should be seen as an act of self interest.

[re_nortex]

As far as atheism is concerned, I stand with the foundering principles of this site stated by Mr. Jim Robison, a brave American Patriot:

Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, PRO-GUN, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America.

Mr. Robinson begins his list with pro-God and I take it to mean that all of the other freedoms flow from that most important foundation. In my opinion, atheism is the path toward unspeakable wickedness including abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia and host of other evils. Even Ayn Rand, held in esteem by some here on FR, was an abortionist...and, of course, an atheist.

I'm with Clear Case Guy and will state my case: Without God and Social Conservatism, there is only liberalism.

[re_nortex]

s/foundering/founding/

Wow...that was a very BAD typo, especially with Jim being a Navy guy. :)

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I actually understand where you are coming from completely. My point was that a key issue was always whether or not the BS were allowing themselves to be dependent on federal subsidies.”

The issue isn't that, its that big corps like Lockheed Martin are cutting off their corporate donations over gays(not allowing adult gays to lead the boys).

And BTW guess where most of their contracts are from.

[theneanderthal]

So your take is low taxes? How about we just ignore individuals, allow freedom, and stop spending on gooberment services?

[freedom462]

Fair enough. But the BS would have had to ensure that none of their funding of any kind comes from federal subsidies and that none of their funding comes from corporate donations from companies that rely on the gov’t for their contracts. If any of the BS’s funding came from public money, directly or indirectly through a corporation practicing crony capitalism, it was always going to be very very difficult to effectively justify denying membership to any segment of the population. I suspect this is why many conservative members of the BS failed when they tried and often had to leave the org entirely. Do you at least concur that as long as the BS were not completely funded by private sources and the free market that the issue of allowing certain segments of the population to join was always going to be a major issue that they would struggle with?