Gay marriage amendment may impact presidential race (Florida)

Bay News 9 ^ | Feb. 10, 2008 | Bay News 9

[bill1952]

>the only reason to vote for me here in Florida is to support the amendment

Ah Joe, I’ve got your back on that one.

note my tagline, although I suspect that your stance will not be terribly popular with the cheerlearers on the Florida board ;^)

[Joe Boucher]

I have never worried about being popular. I just read and make up my mind and if others don’t like it, tuff.
Wish more folks did the same instead of trying to go along with the crowd.

[NonValueAdded]

That might be the only way to get Rupublicans to turn out but it still won’t get them to color in the oval for McLame.

[lentulusgracchus]

If the DemocRATS weren’t so insistent on forcing “gay marriage” on this country through the backdoor, there wouldn’t be the opportunity to use it as a wedge issue to get people to the polls to vote on an iniative or constitutional amdendment and simultaneouly boost Republican candidates.

True, but state amendments won't get it done. This is an Article IV attack on all the States via the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith & Credit Clause. It will require amending the U.S. Constitution to cure.

Karl Rove and George W. Bush knew that when they got state parties to put all those DOMA-related amendments on the ballot in 2004, which makes their use of them an exercise in cynicism, esp. since Bush himself has been behind-the-scenes committed to a gay-friendly policy in the top reaches of the Republican Party, including the appointment of gay men to e.g. the RNC and subcabinet jobs. This gay-friendly stance is documented online. The gay-straight "alliance"-type group at the top of the GOP is Republican Unity Coalition or RUC, their website was

http://www.republicanunity.com/news.htm

Which is now 404 compliant.

They forgot to take down the page cached last month by Microsoft's search engine, visible here, replete with prominent Republican names:

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=72790376977809&mkt=en-US⟨=en-US&w=bc9c32ae&FORM=CVRE2

Charles Francis, listed as a contact for RUC, is an old personal friend of George W. Bush and the spiritus animans behind the RUC. Their basic position is, hey, we're all good tax-paying Republicans, so what if we're gay? Why should we have to put up with those mouth-breathing tent-shouter types in our big tent? We want to make homosexuality and morality non-issues in the GOP. Our party is all about economics, anyway.

The Wikipedia article is here, and there is also an article on about.com:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Unity_Coalition

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"The amendment would ban same-sex marriages."

It does no such thing - you have to have the existence of something in order to ban it. Homosexual "marriage" is a fantasy, and doesn't exist in reality, much less in Florida. The media never missed a chance to show us its true bias - unwittingly.

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"The amendment would ban same-sex marriages."

It does no such thing - you have to have the existence of something in order to ban it. Homosexual "marriage" is a fantasy, and doesn't exist in reality, much less in Florida. The media never missed a chance to show us its true bias - unwittingly.

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Bay News 9's Republican Political Analyst former Governor Bob Martinez said it's not unusual to see hot-button amendments appearing during an election year. In fact- it's pure strategy.

Wrong. Floridians worked hard to get this on the balot two years ago - in a presidential off-year. This is just a deferred result from years of hard work.