Posted on 06/12/2014 7:32:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ted Olson isn’t big on making predictions. The conservative attorney who successfully argued Hollingsworth v. Perry, ridding California of Proposition 8 and allowing gay couples to marry, isn’t willing to guess which gay marriage case will make it to the Supreme Court next. (He’s working on one out of Virginia.)
“Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do … you’re wrong, so I try to stay away from that,” he told Whispers.
Olson also isn’t willing to play political prognosticator, though he said we’d eventually see a GOP presidential candidate who is pro-gay marriage.
“That’s another one I don’t want to predict, but it’s just a matter of time; I’ll do everything that I can to help make that happen,” said the superlawyer, who walked the red carpet at Monday night’s Washington screening of the new HBO documentary, “The Case Against 8.”
One of the first issues that is explored in the documentary, which debuts June 23, is the political enigma that is Ted Olson. Olson, George W. Bush’s solicitor general who won Bush v. Gore, decided to join David Boies, Al Gore’s former attorney and Olson’s nemesis during the 2000 election case, to help gay couples in California get marriage back after Proposition 8, a ballot initiative, was passed by voters in 2008.
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WTH happened to this guy? I know it’s tragic to lose his wife like he did, but SHEESCH!!
Why should the Republican Party concern itself with individual sexual preference. It should never be a national party issue.
Darwin will not be mocked!
I wonder if he found love in the arms of another man since? This is creepy weird, his obsession.
He’s still angry at God because he lost his wife. Too bad he can’t see she would hate what he’s become.
Because it's a great way to run off those extremist conservatives.
/johnny
Watch the freaking news for a day, Ted.
You might notice that the marriage rights of poofters is not exactly a pressing concern.
Well, he may be right, that a GOP candidate may endorse homosexual marriage.
The way our culture has evolved, it’s now considered bigoted and hateful to say you think marriage is a man and a woman.
Beauty pageant contestants find themselves the target of character assassination, if they state a belief in marriage as a man and a woman.
Fast food companies find themselves the target of boycotts if they have a top manager who believes marriage is a man and a woman.
Software company executives find themselves forced out of their company, if it’s discovered that they believe in marriage as a man and a woman, and back that up with contributions to a ballot initiative on the subject.
An uproar will result, if discovered that a character on a TV reality show favors traditional marriage, and makes graphic comments about homosexual behavior and how it is unnatural.
The media and the liberals have decided that this is the ultimate issue, and that if you oppose homosexual marriage, you are a worthless human being, and that no other issues matter.
Ted Olson Vows to Make GOP Pro-Gay...”You’re going to hate Fridays...”
So this guy dies and goes to hell. The Devil greets him and he shrieks, “Oh, woe is me, for I am to spend an eternity of unending torment in the lake of fire and brimstone! If only I’d listened to more Christian radio!”
“Relax,” says the devil. “It’s not all that bad down here. We have some good days. Come on, cheer up! You like beer?”
Confused, the guy says, “Yeah. Yeah, I like beer!”
“See?” the devil says. “You’ll love Mondays. That’s all we do, all day, is drink beer!”
“Really?” the guys asks.
“Yeah,” the devil says, with a smile. “You like to eat?”
“Yeah,” the guy says, cheering up considerably.
“Then you’ll love Wednesdays!” the devil says, beaming. “All we do is eat buffet all day long! How about dry anal sex?”
“Ye— what? No! No, I have no interest in dry anal sex!”
“Oh,” the devil says with regret. “You’re going to hate Fridays...”
That’s a bit like saying that Clinton was impeached for sex. Sexual preference isn’t the issue, the redefining of marriage to something it has been, is. A collateral issue that is every bit as important is that of just who gets to decide.
No, there’s more to it than just Adam and Steve wanting to get frisky with each other at the rest stop.
This shouldn’t be a problem. Most of those still in the GOP are DemocRAT wannabes anyway.
At one time he seemed to be aomewhat sensible - at least for a lawyer.
Now he is eaten up with a case of The Dumbass
So... the law should allow a redefinition of marriage to include the union of two men?
Why not a man and a goat?
Why not a man and a child?
And if we can redefine words to mean anything at all, haven’t they lost all meaning?
It is not the Republican Party that has nationalized the issue. The left has peered yet again into the penumbras and decided that homosexual conduct is a constitutionally protected right, and that acceptance, collaboration, and support for homosexual conduct is an enforceable duty on the rest of us.
Sad what happens to a person who at one point in his life was on the proper path. Now gone astray.
“he said we’d eventually see a GOP presidential candidate who is pro-gay marriage”
Then we’ll see another GOP presidential candidate lose.
because America doesn’t already have a “pro gay” party - whatever that means
oh wait
I can’t help but think that if Barbara were still alive, she’d be kicking Ted’s ass from now ‘til Tuesday.
. . . as a dog returns to his own vomit . . .
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