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SOCIAL ISSUES FADE AS REPUBLICANS COURT CONSERVATIVES ZOT!
Reuters ^ | 6/3/11 | Steve Holland

Posted on 06/03/2011 11:49:11 AM PDT by 57 Red States

Christian conservatives looking to put a Republican in the White House heard a lot about the economy on Friday in a sign that their social issues may take a back seat in 2012.

Many political speakers at the Faith and Freedom Coalition, including Republican White House hopefuls, emphasized jobs, debt and deficits...

In contrast to some previous presidential campaigns, social issues like gay marriage and abortion have not been prominent topics for Republicans hopefuls seeking to replace President Barack Obama in next year's election.

The weakness of the economy has triggered a debate within the Republican Party about whether conservatives should call a "truce" on social questions.

The idea is that Republicans would have a better chance at victory in 2012 if they rally around economic issues....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatism; doublezot; economy; fiscalresponsibility; liberaltrollzot; moralabsolutes; rinozot; smallgovernment; zot
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To: rollo tomasi

I guess we see things differently.


141 posted on 06/04/2011 9:49:41 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: misterrob

TALK ABOUT ASKING FOR IT!


142 posted on 06/04/2011 9:55:52 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Brett11

You are apparently unaware of what “censorship” entails. We’re guests in Jim’s house. He makes the rules. That’s not “censorship.”


143 posted on 06/04/2011 10:26:51 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

That’s true, but I didn’t see a rule from Jim that stated that you had to support drug prohibition in order to post here. He said that you have to oppose abortion and gay marriage, which I do. I don’t believe that gays should have special rights or that babies should be a “choice.”


144 posted on 06/04/2011 11:12:07 AM PDT by Brett11
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To: misterrob

What a d1ckt!


145 posted on 06/04/2011 11:39:10 AM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: Brett11
care to elaborate? You think that just because the hotel fire is not in your room, it doesn't affect you? Right.
146 posted on 06/04/2011 12:34:54 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: little jeremiah
in which all religions agree.

Which is never, unless you want to force everyone into the same religion, say like Sharia?

147 posted on 06/04/2011 12:37:55 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: itsahoot

Surely you’re not serious.

Jefferson wasn’t referring to eensy little things, the major things. Which are the same in all religions, even Buddhism.


148 posted on 06/04/2011 1:11:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: TheOldLady

You are such a FRiend! *hugs*


149 posted on 06/04/2011 1:13:15 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: 57 Red States

We keep on hearing this same disproven lie.


150 posted on 06/04/2011 1:14:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: stuartcr

>> “When looking at the big picture, I don’t think social issues are that important to governments.” <<

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Nonsense.

Without government support, the DD up, DD down, ‘diversity’ agenda would have died 50 years ago.


151 posted on 06/04/2011 1:18:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

*Hugs* to you too. Since you do the horrible job most of the time, I thought I’d leap up off my fat [unladylike word] and give you a hand for once. ;-)


152 posted on 06/04/2011 1:26:50 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
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To: TheOldLady
There sure has been a lot of cleanup to do lately. So many troll guts splattered over so many threads. You really have to be careful where you walk on some threads so you don't accidentally step in the putrid foul stuff....

Just the other day I was meandering through this one thread and all of the sudden some troll got the zot and guts flew every were! I was covered in the nasty stuff from head to toe and had to sneak off and take a shower (and I had to give my pimpbuster uniform a good cleaning too, as I happened to be wearing it at the time). I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed, but the foul troll smell just refused to come out for a long time. So I remembered that some people take tomato baths after they encounter a skunk, so I though, "Why not?" I filled up the bath with as much tomato sauce as I had (mixed with warm water) and just lay there for a while. When I came out, I smelled like a tomato, but the troll smell was mostly gone. I did some more rinsings and put on perfume after that so I am fine now.

Whatever you do, don't get to close to a troll about to be zotted!

153 posted on 06/04/2011 1:45:01 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: TheOldLady

Hey, I’m against all crony capitalism and subsidies. ;’)


154 posted on 06/04/2011 5:19:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Brett11

Ah, now that’s really the million dollar question isn’t it? I’m pro-life, and I wouldn’t call myself anti-gay, but I’m against gay marriage and do indeed have a problem with gays being openly so around children. So certainly no one would call me pro-gay.

However, when I think of “social conservatives” I think of the Moral Majority protests outside of my neighborhood 7-11 in my youth. I had no use for them then, and I have no use for them now.


155 posted on 06/04/2011 5:20:45 PM PDT by Melas (Sent via Galaxy Tab)
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To: PDGearhead
The economic issues can be addressed at the same time, but we should start with bringing morals back into our country.

Well, if that's where we should start, maybe someone should take the time to explain how this moral change is going to come about. It's been my experience that individuals do not easily bear moral commandments from government.

156 posted on 06/04/2011 5:31:56 PM PDT by Melas (Sent via Galaxy Tab)
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To: little jeremiah
You ever read Jeffersons opinion on Islam? There is no piece with people that not only want your death, they proclaim that ambition daily. They teach it to their children, they scream it on Al Jazera daily to more people than ever watch a tv in the rest of the world.

You figure we can all just get along?

157 posted on 06/04/2011 5:59:45 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Progressivism, Support Palin, or get used to it.)
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To: itsahoot

Generally I leave Islam out of the equation; but even in the Koran the general moral standards are the same. Aside from the “it’s fine to kill/lie to etc infidels” part.

But the moral standards (okay fine to leave Islam out) are virtually standard in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, even Jainism and other minor religions.

Again, leaving Islam out. And anyway, much of what is now considered Islamic stuff is in the Hadiths which were written at least 100 years after Mohammed so who knows if stuff in the Hadiths is even “real” Islam - (from what I’ve gathered, I could only force myself to read some of the Koran itself) or just “tradition” which has been tacked on. Like FGM etc.

I’m not talking about “getting along” so much as promoting moral absolutes being supported by government as they are standard human morality, necessary for human civilization. IOW no government mandating or promoting immorality, which is what is happening today.

AFAIAC Islam needs to be defeated and put back in the closet, just like faggotry. And oddly enough many Islamic countries have huge traditions of pederasty...


158 posted on 06/04/2011 6:14:12 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh, very well. Me too.


159 posted on 06/04/2011 8:40:06 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
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To: little jeremiah

You realize of course we have such a system in place already, it is called the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Sadly most people know less about those documents than they do their own religious tenants.

The problems arise of course when people rely on clergy to interpret for them what they must do, just like Congress and the Supreme Court. Then you have lawyers involved, sort of like inquisitions.

While I am no scholor, I am aware of the book of Revelation’s predictions of the mega church. Even better I believe those phropecies, and the message of Salvation that is within.


160 posted on 06/05/2011 10:09:06 AM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Progressivism, Support Palin, or get used to it.)
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