Posted on 04/08/2014 5:54:52 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, is making the case for a “live and let live” approach to same-sex marriage in a new television ad buy targeting Western states, just as a federal appeals court in Denver prepares to take up the issue later this week.
“Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,” Simpson, of Wyoming, says in the spot.
The six-figure buy, sponsored by the pro-gay marriage group Freedom to Marry, is slated to start airing on Tuesday on national cable channels, as well as locally in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Colorado.
Those states are within the geographic jurisdiction of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing a gay marriage case concerning Utah on Thursday, and is set to take up another one involving Oklahoma later this month — the cases could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.
“I’m a Republican,” Simpson says. “The party’s basic core is, government out of your life and the right to be left alone.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Orin Hatch, Haley Barbor, etc etc etc.
Yes, when a man can be fired from his job because he believes in traditional marriage we’ve got a problem waaaaaay beyond ‘hole of choice’...
You're right. Seems they're worse than anything they've been able to accuse us of...
Nothing stops two adults who love each other from being with each other.
I remember the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s, and I don’t remember any Baptists, Catholics or Mormons - the 3 religions I have the most experience with - ever doing anything mean to homosexuals, other than saying it is A sin that needs repentance, as do sins like adultery, lying, hate and pride.
The idea that we were “out to get them” is simply a lie. I lived those times. I know better. Unhappily, the average teen was born around the late 90s, and they do not understand the lie they are being peddled.
What they really want is to be able to adopt children and be in-our-face with their lifestyle.
First 3 words tell me all I need to know:
“Former Sen. Alan Simpson...”
““Whether you’re gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,”
And why not extend this to animals and rocks?
No, we know the gaytalk, “two consenting adults”, why doesn’t he say he wants to redefine marriage for every man, woman and child in the nation.
I’ve got to remember the line Michael Medved uses, “gays have a higher median income than straights”. That points to NO discrimination.
Yes, gay sex is a sin. So is being unfaithful... or coveting your neighbor's wife or not respecting your parents. My concern isn't the same as the theologian. My concern is this particular sin is being turned into an effective political movement - one that is starting to appear to be rather totalitarian.
Unfortunately, Reagan was hardly infallible either. He's the one who signed Simpson-Mazolli into law, after all, legalizing millions of illegals and setting the precedent for today's mess. Perhaps he had his own "kinder, gentler" flaws during his second term, no doubt thanks to his Rockefeller Republican VP's influence.
Another progressive shows his colors....
Is Simpsom in favor of Incestuous Marriage and Polygamous Marriage? If not, why not? Has anybody asked him?
After all, if you love somebody...
Of course, he should have known better -they had already forced him to act against his conscious and then failed to live up to the promises they had made in exchange on other issues.
Democrats lie. Democrat enablers lie.
Yes unfortunately this is old news with Simpson, it`s a shame, I used to really enjoy his humor
Not what I'd call a live and let live attitude, Al. So my advice would be to take a gay marital aid and shove it in your mouth so that no more of your stupid words come out.
I never understood this whole charade, "let's forgive millions of illegals THIS time, but from now on we'll be tough on border enforcement." It has the same logic as "let's issue a pardon to all thieves, if in return we can get serious about enforcing laws against theft." Anyone who takes it seriously is either a fraud or a fool.
“if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them,”
I love my Corvette, but I won’t marry it you sick bastard. And if a father “loves” his daughter, you think they should marry?
God, let these RINOS burn in hell
Walking Delusional
That is the lamest way you guys promote gay marriage, you pretend marriage isn't real at all and that we don't even have to deal with gay marriage.
Saving America is impossible with your radical leftist politics.
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