Posted on 05/12/2012 7:44:19 AM PDT by markomalley
A memo sent out by a Republican pollster has been making the rounds online for its conclusion that the party needs to embrace gay marriage as part of its platform because of recent trends showing increased support for this important social issue. Jan van Lohuizen, who worked as a pollster for George W. Bush in 2004, made the case that the GOP should be fighting for gay marriage as a conservative issue, by emphasizing that “freedom means freedom for everyone.”
The memo contains polling data showing that not only is support of gay marriage steadily increasing with the American people at large, but that a majority of Republicans now support “extending basic legal protections to gays and lesbians” like the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and hospital visitation rights for gay and lesbian partners. Van Lohuizen stresses that this position does not mean gays and lesbians would be given special treatment, but instead ensures they are given the same protections under the law as everyone else.
“People who believe in equality under the law as a fundamental principle, as I do, will agree that this principle extends to gay and lesbian couples; gay and lesbian couples should not face discrimination and their relationship should be protected under the law. People who disagree on the fundamental nature of marriage can agree, at the same time, that gays and lesbians should receive essential rights and protections such as hospital visitation, adoption rights, and health and death benefits.”
He also explains how the GOP can frame support of gay marriage as a conservative issue.
“As people who promote personal responsibility, family values, commitment and stability, and emphasize freedom and limited government we have to recognize that freedom means freedom for everyone. This includes the freedom to decide how you live and to enter into relationships of your choosing, the freedom to live without excessive interference of the regulatory force of government.”
In other words, “Jan van Lohuizen” is gay and he wants conservatives to go against their morals and values to appease his lifestyle choice.
Why don’t we all just register as democrat/communists and be done with it?
“Jan van Lohuizen” just WHO is THIS guy?!
Making me pay for anther's lifestyle isn't freedom.
No thank you.
Yeah, the vote in North Carolina shows how much supporting the true definition of marriage is a loosing position. Get real!
If you saw the neighbor boy trying to mate with a knothole in the fence, or his cat, you’d scream and demand that he get therapy. But if he tries to mate with the anal canal of another male, it’s OK. Trying to mate with another male’s anal canal is as insane as trying to mate with a knothole or cat. What kind of baby are they trying to produce.....a pencil?
After Obama lost all those points for supporting gay marriage?
On my local talk station, there was a black fellow who was an ardent supporter of Obama who turned completely against him once Obama began supporting gay marriage. He said it was completely against everything Christian and proved to him that Obama never really believed in God.
Is there a Complete Disconnect between Everyone in DC, and the American Public? 30-plus states say this guy is wrong!
Mediate is a left wing operation. Run by former head of MSDNC
Named Abrams .
Believe nothing from that website .
We are never going to win this war in the gay media. Also, this is just another bogus non-issue intended to deflect attention from failed economic & fiscal policies.
My advice to the GOP is not to “embrace” (yuk!) gay marriage but to mokusatsu the issue. Don’t go fight your enemy on his home field, make him fight on yours.
Gays are free to marry like everybody else. They should be able to marry a person of other gender, like everybody else. But gays don’t want to marry. They want something else.
Some fag I guess.
Click here if you're interested in checking out a party that remains true to the natural law moral basis of this free republic.
If Holy Matrimony is a Lost Cause, well, that’s a hill I’ll fight and die on.
Some causes are worth fighting for, even some lost causes.
And damn the turncoats, sellouts and jellyspines to hell.
Their kind was also plentiful in other eras. In WW2, they were called Quislings.
No, we at least have a GOP POTUS nominee that is severely conservative.
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