Posted on 04/21/2015 6:54:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Where do we stand on this so far among the GOP field? Rubio’s a yes, Santorum’s a no, Cruz is noncommittal, Walker said he’s already attended a gay-wedding reception but not an actual ceremony. Anyone I’m leaving out? People are dismissing it as a gotcha but I think it’s interesting as a gauge of whom each candidate’s trying to appeal to. The only real surprise among the five who have already answered is Cruz, whom I would have guessed would be a “no” to please social conservatives.
Free advice from Ben Domenech to the 300 Republican candidates who haven’t yet gotten this question: Use it to make a point about religious liberty.
[J]ust like the 2012 contraception question, it’s not about a pressing policy issue. It’s about trying to find a subject where the natural voter’s response is “what? Don’t be ridiculous”, but Republican candidates’ responses will be a fifteen minute discourse on the finer points of Griswold v. Connecticut.
“Would you attend a gay wedding” is a matter of personal conscience. But that’s why it’s such an obvious opportunity for turning the question back on the actual policy battle at issue, a bit of ju jitsu I haven’t seen from any of the respondents yet. The whole point is that it’s your decision whether to attend or not. Conservatives and (most) libertarians believe people ought to be able to decide whether to freely associate with others themselves, not be dragooned by the force of government into mandatory associations as the secular left maintains. The entire point of religious freedom laws in Indiana and elsewhere is that we want to give people who say “I cannot in good conscience participate in this ceremony” the right to defend themselves in court based on their deeply held beliefs. That used to be a bipartisan principle, and now it’s effectively a monopartisan one – but it’s the right principle. A Republican Party unwilling to defend it has been reduced from a party founded on the idea that no man should work and toil and earn bread where another eats it… to one only ready to smash their clay fire pots and raise a sword in the air for the cause of the Keystone Pipeline and the Medical Device Tax.
As I say, I’m not surprised Perry’s willing to attend. He became more of a “values” candidate near the end of his 2012 campaign as a last gasp to try to get back into the race, but this time he’s running as a jobs-creating executive who’s done his homework on national policy and is ready to lead. The last time he said something that offended gay-rights activists, in July 2014, he quickly walked it back so that he wouldn’t get typecast by the national media as a guy whose appeal lies mainly among social conservatives. From now on he’s the “economy candidate” who happens to also be a full-spectrum conservative. Is that enough to make a dent in the polls after the big 2012 fizzle? Watch the second clip below before you answer.
I am a genetically born homophone, I got the gene from my dad’s side.
We are the most persecuted minority in the country now.
The “flip-flop” is not due to a lack of moral integrity. It is doing battle with the opposition. You know, it is shooting out chaff that protects our pilots from getting a radar fix. This diversionary tactic keeps one alive to bomb the opposition. Say after me:
“The end game is to deliver the bomb.”
“Yeah, I’d probably take the Mark of the Beast.”
Turn the question on the liberal reporter who is probably against capital punishment. Say, would you attend an execution? It’s a legal ceremony. Most liberals find executions as abhorrent as conservatives find gay marriage.
Seen video of their parades. NOT going to the wedding.
who cares?
I do. The family is the foundation of a free society. Destroy that, and we’re done for. The Left understands that, unlike a lot of “conservatives” on FR - those who say “who cares?”
I already wasn’t going to vote for him. Now, if I was into vote fraud, I wouldn’t vote for him twice.
Dear candidate: Would you attend an abortion?
Mr. M and I have two really good long time friends (they don’t know each other though) and found out about ten years ago each was SSA. If one of them sent a wedding invitation we would go. They each know we’re not too happy about the SSA thing.
I care too. The GOP used to profess to be the party standing up for family values, unlike the degenerate Dems. That seems such a laugh now. The GOP is falling all over itself to prove how much it embraces the same deviancy and moral deadness. Both parties... the same rotting stench.
Perhaps the question to Dems should be:
Would you attend a Catholic wedding of two anti-abortion, Republicans.
And, for the vast majority of the liberal intelligentsia, the answer is NO! But yet they profess to believe in tolerance.
Here is a question that should be asked of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Since the liberals and Hillary are champions of or defenders of gay issues, gay marriage, acceptance of gays, acceptance of transexuals,
Why is it then ?
That the Hillary Clinton campaign does not have transexuals dressed like a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade going around with her on campaign stops ?
Live on stage with her parading around with her, having photo ops with Hillary ?
Bad optics ?
The American electrolate not ready for it or condones it ?
This needs to be asked of them and force their hand and expose their hypocrisy..
Your right, but eventually the left will bring it up time and time again to where it’s unavoidable or unbearable.
This man would attend a gay wedding on the same day I got a hysterectomy.
The country is about to be looted by the Clinton Crime Family and their army of minions. So lets all get in a circular firing squad for every candidate on our side, so Hillary and company can waltz into the White House and proceed to steal everything under the sun. The day this bunch leaves the White House for good, I predict the copper piping in the walls of the White House will be missing.
Listened and thanks, great clip.
Sounds like the DNC...
My younger brother is homosexual and moved to Massachusetts, I thought, with the intent of marrying his partner so I have actually had to think about this question.
If time and distance were not a factor and I was made to feel welcome, I might attend a civil ceremony. I would not attend a church wedding because I believe such a ceremony defiles the church where it takes place but were in a civil ceremony with a JP, not a minister, I could be a witness to it.
Truth is, gay marriage is still illegal in most states and ought to stay that way but I couldn’t totally rule out attending one if a) it was in a location where it was legal, b) it were not held in a church or conducted by a minister and c) was for someone whom I felt a sense of obligation to be there on behalf of the family. The chances of all three conditions being met are rather unlikely.
Does this disqualify me from being President?
Never attend a wedding ceremony where you can’t tell the bride from the groom.
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