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....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
he is courting the homosexuals’ votes.
I cannot believe how many unmitigated morons are on FR these days. He did not court ANYONE. He was asked a trap question by a media member who wants to scuttle his nomination. He answered it honestly, by noting a family event that he attended that might pleasantly surprise many of the knee-jerk haters on the Left... so the knee-jerk morons on the Right go after him instead. SMH.
I swore I wouldn’t vote for Romney, especially after he said that homos who “love each other” should be able to adopt children. I prayed about it, and I was pretty sure I was receiving guidance to refrain from it. Then Benghazi happened and I caved. I gave him my vote.
The next DAY, when I went to pray, God wasn’t there. Well, He was, but He was teaching me a lesson. That lesson went on for a few years.
I’m not going to jeopardize my relationship with God again by voting for some politician who approves of queers, no matter who the opposition might be.
BTW, Jonty, I have been where you are. I cast a clothes-pin vote for McCain in 2008 (it was for Sarah really), and also for Romney in 2012. I’m not proud of it, and I will not be showing up again.
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We’re passed Walker now, so who cares?
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>> “Including birthday parties where the parents are not married.” <<
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Not married in God’s eyes, or in the state’s eyes?
Marriage licenses were not created by God.
I would have had difficulty in voting for McCain myself.
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>> “I think his steering gear has come loose.” <<
His steering wheel has the Chamber of Commerce’s hands on it.
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If you want to beat the GOPe, you keep grinding their gears. Make them spend hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle to get their candidate and you send the money to your candidate. At some point, they either run out of money or they start listening.
A dig at the conservatives eh?
No, just their decision process.
Same here.
Evangelical turnout was higher in 2012 than 2008, and Romney won 79% of the Evangelical vote, the most republican vote of any group.
So what are you going on about?
So you disagree with conservatives on politics, I don’t think that shocks anyone here.
This doesn’t surprise me since Walker has done Nothing to support traditional marriage and has declared gay marriages in his state legal going back to last June.
Maybe, we just don't know, he wouldn't answer the question when poised to him.
Well, I shouldn’t be surprised. Walker threw in the towel real quick when a federal judge was pushing homo-marriage on his state. And Walker’s comment on Indiana and the homo-fascists there was incredibly lame. Maybe he’s tough on unions, but he sure doesn’t seem to give a damn on the Gay Mafia’s attempts to eradicate our religious freedoms.
It’s hard to overstate the amount of abject contempt I’ve begun to hold for the GOP, and the way it either cowers in fear like frightened rabbits, or actively embraces the moral deviancy that has enshrouded the culture. Walker was already pathetic in his wishy-washy amnesty stances, but this just puts the final nail in the coffin for me. The whole blasted GOP leadership seems to be run by creeps and degenerates.
Ditto!
I ain’t falling for this CRAP!
I suppose I’m supposed to vote for the lesbian madwoman crook because Walker went to a gay wedding reception??????
Seven million conservative votes did not appear in the 2012 Presidential election. This gave Obama 4 more years to do what he can to permanently change the country. These absent votes were essentially Democrat votes, because it helped him get elected. You are voting every election, whether or not you choose to show up.
A thousand thumbs up! We'll be lucky if Obama's second term isn't fatal to millions of us.
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