Posted on 01/13/2016 9:46:28 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 13, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - The next Republican president will "respect" different forms of marriages, including same-sex "marriages," South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in last night's Republican response to the State of the Union address.
"If we [Republicans] held the White House," she said, "we would respect differences in modern families, but we would also insist on respect for religious liberty as a cornerstone of our democracy."
Even the terminology "modern families" evokes the ABC sitcom featuring a homosexual couple raising a child.
The GOP has been uncertain how to respond to the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges case, with only one of the top-tier candidates - Ted Cruz - campaigning for a Constitutional amendment returning the issue to the states.
Many candidates and the GOP's most powerful policy makers have instead said the GOP must "move on" from the ruling, accepting the 5-4 decision as settled law but acting to grant some protections to those who have religious objections to participating in same-sex "marriage" ceremonies.
The speech by Haley, who was hand chosen for the response by the Republican Party's leadership, amplifies that decision to accept redefined marriage as the new normal.
She also agreed with President Obama that Muslims should be allowed to continue immigrating to the United States, calling on Americans to reject "the siren call of the angriest voices."
"There’s a tendency to falsely equate noise with results," she said. "We must resist that temptation."
She later admitted her remarks were directed at Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump.
She concluded by vowing that modern Republican policies will "keep America the greatest country in the history of man. And woman."
I decided to read her speech. Headline at hotair now says she said - Unlike Rubio I don’t support amnesty. Interesting.
About a year before Graham was reelected I called Gowdy’s local office to ask if Gowdy was going to run against him. Lol. Nice lady told me SC didn’t need outsiders in their elections.
Nothing to see here but the usual RINO left wing pandering politically correct bs.
I had a bad feeling about this woman when she started crying on tv after the church shooting blaming the confederate flag
Fake tears and faux outrage...a despicable performance that sealed my dislike of her.....
pandering to the left, pandering to blacks, and now pandering to Muslim jihadists..
She is not pandering;pandering at least has a political benefit...she is flat out groveling...
UGH. I hadn’t heard about these remarks from Haley. Who is now an official bought-and-paid-for-GOP-whore.
Nikki is at the least a homophile. I doubt she is a dyke, but people often get caught doing things for money and power.
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