Posted on 04/19/2015 1:21:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NASHUA, N.H. – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has attended a wedding reception for a gay couple, he said Sunday, though the potential 2016 contender still believes marriage should be between a man and a woman.
“That’s certainly a personal issue. For a family member, Tonette and I and our family have already had a family member who’s had a reception. I haven’t been at a wedding,” Walker said when msnbc asked whether he would be willing to attend a gay wedding. “That’s true even though my position on marriage is still that it’s defined between a man and a woman, and I support the constitution of the state. But for someone I love, we’ve been at a reception.”
The Wisconsin state constitution had banned gay marriage until a federal judge ruled the ban unconstitutional in 2014. Wisconsin newspapers reported that Walker attended a reception for his wife’s cousin, Shelli Marquardt, shortly thereafter. After a brief period, an appeal halted gay marriages in Wisconsin — but they resumed late last year when the Supreme Court rejected the appeal.
Walker isn’t the only potential GOP candidate willing to attend such events. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who announced his presidential bid last week, told the cable network Fusion that he would participate.
“If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events,” Rubio said....
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I didn’t know he did this. Nevertheless - I think McCain is damaged - or something - by his time as a POW. I suppose that’s being generous.
So if McCain did this then yes, I’d consider him an enemy. I don’t like the guy anyway.
Well said!
Attending a gay wedding reception is like attending the May Unicorn Convention insofar as both entertain imaginary notions.
I think you're right.
Can you tell me if Cruz would attend? He seemed reluctant to say.
I would not go. Wouldnt make a big deal about it, just would not go.
You're inferring you have a perfect candidate, please give us his name. We all want to vote for him.
In all my years I strove to vote for the lessor of the evil men.
He doesn't really seem like a Conservative politician in many ways.... more like a republican politician.
Cruz is squishy on wetbackery, less so than the rest, but the reality is deport them or give them the vote.
Wisconsin gopE (Reince Priebus, Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson).... Birds of a feather....
And what are you going to do when you find out about Cruz’s downfalls? He is not perfect either.
He only went to the reception. So I guess he said no too.
You’ll be changing your tune once he is nominated because you know that he did not attend a gay wedding. Can you read????
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Curiously this kind of news consolidates the conservative votes where they belong.
My family are all raging heterosexuals, so it probably won't come up, but I think I'd probably go if it were someone I truly cared about.
I will say that those who go on about gay weddings weakening traditional marriage... well, they should speak for themselves. My marriage, warts and all, does not depend on what kind of ceremony homosexuals hold. I'm secure that the joys we've shared, the storms we've weathered, the bond that unites us... has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone else's wedding, gay or not.
To be honest, I think gay marriage is an insignificant threat to the Republic compared to open homosexuality in the military.
The problem is that people who have a demonstrable lack of the fear of God have not an iota of inhibition about “evolving” away from the damn lies they told as a candidate. We have majorities in Congress full of such liars, for whom real conservatives pinched their noses and voted, that care not a whit about the abortion holocaust or the economic enslavement of many generations of survivors to come.
I see.
He didn’t inhale.
It would seem that Cruz and Walker are the two that scare the Left the most. Too bad we have some here who feel the same way (not you - just a number of "overthinkers" who dwell with us).
More GOPe “Acts of Love” acceptance in the name of political expedience.
What do you expect from men and women who were mostly attorneys in the real world? Tell me all about the one you know who is honest?
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