Would you have the GOP put that banner front and center...as a principal issue?
How about abortion? Front and center?
While I believe we should all vote our conscience, every time, I think some fight are better relegated to the future if they don't present an immediate threat.
I believe "gay rights" and abortion belong under the 10th Amendment and are not the purview of the Federal Government. However, the Feds have nationalized abortion under Roe and essentially codified the legalization position. That is NOT a fight that will be won over the next 2-4 years.
Currently the "gay rights" issues are being fought on the 10th Amendment stage (in the State Houses)...and I wonder why the GOP or conservatives would want to nationalize them? If anything the "gay rights" movement has a far better constitutional case than the abortionists did.
That, combined with that fact that many independents in the NE and West Coast are agnostic on these issues...but react negatively to "religious zeal", why stir that hornets nest when there's no upside, no opportunity to change the status quo?
I just don't get it...there is an opportunity over the next 2-4 years to place conservative principles in the ruling seats for a generation...the seats that APPOINT AND APPROVE JUDGES...and some would carry the banner of issues at the front of the column, issues which cannot be affected in the near term, which could reduce the chances for victory in the long term.
Do you apply this "logic" to other unalienable rights, or just to the supreme right, the right to life?
However, the Feds have nationalized abortion under Roe and essentially codified the legalization position.
According to the founders of this free republic the protection of the unalienable rights to life and liberty are the reason for the existence of human government.
That is NOT a fight that will be won over the next 2-4 years.
And meanwhile, EVERY DAY in this country more persons are brutally murdered by the abortionists than died from the terror attacks of 9-11-2001.