Scott Walker: Gay Marriage Accepted by Young Conservatives [Mar 2013]

NewsMax ^ | 17 Mar 2013 | Greg Richter

[SoConPubbie]

Same-sex marriage is accepted by younger conservatives and won’t likely be an issue in upcoming political races, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said.

Appearing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Walker was asked whether younger conservatives are “more apt to see marriage equality as something that is … what they believe, that is basic rather than as a disqualifying issue?”

“I think there’s no doubt about that,” Walker said. “But I think that’s all the more reason, when I talk about things, I talk about the economic and fiscal crises in our state and in our country, that’s what people want to resonate about. They don’t want to get focused on those issues.”

The discussion stemmed from Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s announcement last week that he has changed his position on same-sex marriage because he wants his son, who is gay, to have the same “joy and stability of marriage” that he has had and that he wishes for his other two children.

Noted Walker: “I’ve had young people ask me …why the government is sanctioning it in the first place?” He suggested it be left up to “the churches and the synagouges and others to define that.”

Republican Ana Navarro noted that “as the youngest person on this panel, I think it’s generational.” It is an issue of tolerance, she said. “I want people who are pro-traditional marriage to tolerate my views and don’t think that makes me less moral or less of a Republican. And I need to tolerate the views of those who think marriage is just a man and a woman and

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[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Jim Robinson]

Uh, if they’re accepting homosexual marriage they’re not conservatives.

[Cicero]

It depends what you mean by “conservatives.”

Real conservatives support traditional, morally healthy families and the right to life.

[FES0844]

And they sure don’t go to church.

[Jim Robinson]

That’s like saying young “conservatives” accept the communist agenda.

[Viennacon]

Bingo! Rather crazy when India elects pro-marriage candidates in a landslide while America slips into backwardness.

[MUDDOG]

Maybe the collapse can hold off for a few more years. Après moi le déluge.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This could mean one of two things

(1) he truly doesn’t care (which is wrong)
(2) he doesn’t want to let it become a sideshow (might or might not be wise)

It could well be succeeding in digging its own grave, in which case it’s legitimate to ask: why interfere.

[Amendment10]

“But I think that’s all the more reason, when I talk about things, I talk about the economic and fiscal crises in our state and in our country, that’s what people want to resonate about. They don’t want to get focused on those issues.”

The anti-conservative liberal media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, undoubtedly has a list of issues that they know will divert the attention of conservatives from trying to stop the unconstitutionally big federal government from stealing more state powers.

[BurningOak]

It is true that homosexuality is a non-issue for young people, simply because religion and church have no impact on their life. The difference between the pro-family and the pro-life movement is that the later has succeeded in framing its arguments in secular terminology the unchurched youth can understand. The pro-family movement has been framed as a anti-gay, Bible based movement, and most post-Christian or pseudo-Christian Americans cannot relate to that.

A revival needs to come before anything can be done against the homosexual agenda.

[SoConPubbie]

A revival needs to come before anything can be done against the homosexual agenda.

True, but it should not stop honorable and Christian men and women from fighting it wherever this evil is found.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

SO what are they going to come to accept next, child molesters and baby killers....oh wait we’re already there.

[demshateGod]

Gay marriage is accepted by NO conservatives.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Fights should be carried out with proper preparation (and, needless to say, good theology).

[SoConPubbie]

Uh, if they’re accepting homosexual marriage they’re not conservatives.

True, and given the way too clever statement on Scott Walker's part where he doesn't state they are wrong and/or takes a strong and continuing stand against Homo Marriage, it raises some big fat question marks where Scott Walker is concerned.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Walker has a big ego like Rand Paul because he beat a few clowns in an election

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/06/scott-walker-to-tea-partiers-lets-focus-on-taking-out-democrats-not-our-fellow-republicans/

[SoConPubbie]

Fights should be carried out with proper preparation (and, needless to say, good theology).

No argument there.

Needless to say, I should not have used the modifier "honorable" for Christian either.

If a man or a woman is truly a Christian, their heart has been transformed and they automatically take up the fight against sin.

There is no such thing as a dishonorable Christian, only Christians.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Younger conservatives” include a lot of traditional Christians and members of other major world faiths that have traditional family values. So this is at best a puzzling ambiguity. It would be better to frankly say it’s wrong but he feels the best support for a conservative movement is not gotten by being a one note Johnny. That is what Ron Paul seems to be trying to say as well. However it would be very easy to outright cede the faux-marriage issue. It is a complex and difficult task. Being rooted deeply in spirituality it needs a spiritual answer.

[Aria]

Why can’t they just live together like so many straight couples? No, they have to demand something they probably don’t even really want or need. One gay guy I talked to said he wanted to get married for the “dignity”. I always saw marriage as protection for the family, the obligation of the father to take care of the mother and children.