This may be the game-changer the GOP needs, especially when one considers the current state of public opinion and the trend lines:
By the end of 2012, 12 states and the District of Columbia had support for same-sex marriage at or above 50%. Of these 12 states, all currently perform marriages, civil unions, or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Thirteen additional states presently are within 5 percentage points of majority support. In the last eight years, every state has increased in its support for marriage for same-sex couples with an average increase of 13.6%. If present public opinion trends continue, another 8 states will be above 50% support by the end of 2014.
The obvious historical parallel is also interesting in this regard:
1 posted on
10/21/2014 8:11:17 AM PDT by
e-gadfly
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To: e-gadfly
Complete Bull Crap. For now.
I have no doubt the Repugs MIGHT one day have a serious contender for the top slot who is pro-faggy.
But not in 2016.
2 posted on
10/21/2014 8:14:24 AM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: e-gadfly
We had one in 2012 and probably in 2008 for that matter. In fact, we probably had one in 2000 and 2004 if you ask him today.
3 posted on
10/21/2014 8:15:21 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: e-gadfly
Their 2012 candidate was pro-homo.
Why wouldn’t the 2016 candidate be also?
4 posted on
10/21/2014 8:15:35 AM PDT by
rhinohunter
(Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
To: e-gadfly
Comparing the acceptance of interracial marriage and homosexual marriage is like comparing apples to oranges.
The better comparison would be abortion.
And public opinion is now changing AGAINST abortion.
5 posted on
10/21/2014 8:16:09 AM PDT by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: e-gadfly
If you had told me ten years ago that the state-by-state map would look like that, I would’ve been incredulous.
This all-out campaign by the media, the Democrats, academia, with help from complicit Republicans or Republicans willing to look the other way.. it worked. The homos had a plan, and it worked.
But at some point, the tide has to shift.
To: e-gadfly
This writer shows the absurdity of the purely verbal argument.
No one, who stops to think just what is the function of marriage, throughout human history, should think of this as a rational issue. Marriage is, and always has been, about sanctifying the creation of the biological family, by the mating of the sexes in procreational activity. Marriage has always been consummated by a procreational act--whether it actually results in a pregnancy is not the point.
Same sex "marriage," is an oxymoron. You cannot have a marriage that can never be consummated, even in theory.
There are a lot of people, out there, who are going to feel very, very foolish, when a brave little boy (figuratively) points out that the Emperor is stark naked.
William Flax
9 posted on
10/21/2014 8:24:17 AM PDT by
Ohioan
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To: e-gadfly
12 posted on
10/21/2014 8:31:03 AM PDT by
JSDude1
To: e-gadfly; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson; TheOldLady
"This may be the game-changer the GOP needs, especially when one considers the current state of public opinion and the trend lines: " So you think it's high time for the GOP to approve queer "marriage?"
13 posted on
10/21/2014 8:31:12 AM PDT by
CatherineofAragon
((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
To: e-gadfly
Oh,
HELL NO ! The conservative BASE would NEVER VOTE FORT THEM AGAIN !
This is what we get when we FAIL to OBEY God.
For
it is written:
For whosoever shall commit ANY of these abominations,even the SOULS that commit themSHALL BE CUT OFF from among their people.
Those who support homosexuals are
against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have
NO sympathy for homosexuals!
Homosexuality is a
"Mark" of disobedience.
Someone once asked"Why are they [homosexuals] all so angry?"
The answer is in the definition of "
REPROBATE".
rep·ro·bate \ˈre-prə-ˌbāt\ a. [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]
- 1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
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Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. 6.
- 2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.
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They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate. Titus 1.
- 3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3.
And the reason
"why" is
given in the Bible.
God has
a cure for homosexuals.
But will we OBEY our Heavenly Father?
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just,
that his justice cannot sleep forever."
14 posted on
10/21/2014 8:31:46 AM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: e-gadfly
Game changer? I agree. It will finally complete the divorce of the Republican Party from its social conservative base and allow the formation of the conservative party this county so desperately needs.
16 posted on
10/21/2014 8:32:19 AM PDT by
Colonel_Flagg
("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
To: e-gadfly
Of course the Republicans should have a pro-gay-marriage presidential candidate in 2016, assuming that they want a chance to get the votes of the dozen or so Federal circuit court judges who have decided that their power out-weighs that of the states and the wishes of the voting public at large.
The Republican party hasn’t shown much interest in what the public at large wants, so I guess we’ll be hearing all about the virtues of “marriage equality” from Jeb Bush or whatever other useless globalist drone they push on us.
To: e-gadfly
22 posted on
10/21/2014 8:36:56 AM PDT by
Darksheare
(People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: e-gadfly
We’ve lost this fight guys, it’s time to move on. If they can topple AZ, they wil be in every state. Please, let’s move on, it’s a losing battle.
23 posted on
10/21/2014 8:37:31 AM PDT by
Hildy
To: e-gadfly
Republicans: making a decision to NOT vote them easier by the minute.
To: e-gadfly
Another reason to not vote GOP.
Will these candidates also approve jailing ministers who don’t perform gay marriage or fining Christian businesses who refuse to help celebrate gay marriage??
28 posted on
10/21/2014 8:39:35 AM PDT by
RginTN
To: e-gadfly
One coupling produces children.
One does not (mostly despair)
It is an erroneous comparison to compare the two.
What we really have is an attempt by the political class to allow hedonism as normal to allow them to go public with their sexual behaviors.
32 posted on
10/21/2014 8:41:30 AM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: e-gadfly
Listen noob, this isn't a Republican activist forum. It's Conservative. Push your crap elsewhere.
37 posted on
10/21/2014 8:44:36 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
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39 posted on
10/21/2014 8:46:06 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
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To: e-gadfly
They’ll get such a nominee without me.
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