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Glenn Beck Defends Gay Marriage: Republicans Need To 'Expand Our Own Horizon'
Business Insider ^ | 12/11/2012 | Grace Wyler

Posted on 12/11/2012 9:48:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I disagree with Beck’s position.

But I don’t think he is actually defending gay “marriage”. He is adopting a neutral position.

Beck’s position ignores human nature, changes centuries of natural law for the benefit of a very small subset of 2% of the population and presents very difficult concerns for adoption.

But it is not support of gay “marriage”


21 posted on 12/11/2012 10:03:54 AM PST by kidd
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To: SeekAndFind

Who ever thought Beck, a Mormon, knew or obeyed the things of God?

Same sex marriage is satan’s idea of marriage and Beck agrees with that.


22 posted on 12/11/2012 10:03:54 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: SeekAndFind

The LDS church will permit gay marriage within 20 years. With their polygamous history, they’ve already scrapped the one man/one woman original design.


23 posted on 12/11/2012 10:05:48 AM PST by lurk
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To: SeekAndFind
This is what you get when you try and get your government to interfere with what your God has ordained.

Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.

Until then, they will use government to over-right your Religions tenets, starting with marriage.

For those of you who are slow of thought, that is what Glenn was say. Nothing more. Nothing less...

24 posted on 12/11/2012 10:06:51 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Supporting gay marriage doesn’t take government out of the equation. It uses government to force the rest of us to recognize something we don’t recognize.

It isn’t a limitation on the power of government; it is an further intrusion of the power of government into an area where it has not previously intruded, to overturn a moral tradition of thousands of years of standing.


25 posted on 12/11/2012 10:08:47 AM PST by marron
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To: Republican Wildcat
Two people of the same sex cannot be husband and wife - it has nothing to do with “bigotry” or “discrimination” - it is simply reality.

What if their church or religion says they can?

26 posted on 12/11/2012 10:08:56 AM PST by ansel12 (A.Coulter2005(truncated)Romney will never recover from his Court's create of a right to gay marriage)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Two people of the same sex cannot be husband and wife - it has nothing to do with “bigotry” or “discrimination” - it is simply reality.

Exactly.

27 posted on 12/11/2012 10:09:52 AM PST by marron
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To: ansel12
"What if their church or religion says they can?"

Their religion can say that a cat is an eagle but doesn't mean the cat will be able to fly. Reality is reality.

28 posted on 12/11/2012 10:11:05 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Dead Corpse
Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.

If only it were that simple. I rather think that the activist homosexuals would continue to attempt to compel/coerce everyone to bend to their will.
29 posted on 12/11/2012 10:11:12 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: stuartcr
The question is why is the government involved in our marriage?"

No, the question is why do you consider yourself a conservative.

30 posted on 12/11/2012 10:11:22 AM PST by SwankyC
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To: SeekAndFind

You just lost me, Glenn ... for good unless you repent.


31 posted on 12/11/2012 10:11:43 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Dead Corpse

RE: Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.

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That implies that all tax deductions for those who are “married” are out the window.

How about immigration? Should government recognize an immigrant’s spouse if he/she were to be given a green card?

My point is this — IN PRACTICE, how do you get government OUT of marriage when they DO have to recognize certain unions in their day to day operations?


32 posted on 12/11/2012 10:12:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how Beck’s fangirls will defend this. Will we be called “haters” because we don’t agree with this idiot?


33 posted on 12/11/2012 10:12:59 AM PST by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: marron

In America we all knew what marriage was until Mormonism came along, then by 1862 the federal government had to step in to stop polygamy.

Today Mormonism, Islam, any cult, any homosexual church or new religion, can define it for themselves, if there is no common definition.

Since marriage has to be recognized from state to state, there has to be some agreed on definitions.


34 posted on 12/11/2012 10:13:23 AM PST by ansel12 (A.Coulter2005(truncated)Romney will never recover from his Court's create of a right to gay marriage)
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To: Psalm 144

Government seems to be involved in marriage already, since they are trying to force priests and pastors to perform marriages, and they are passing laws that say, in effect, “you vill do this, und you vill like it!”


35 posted on 12/11/2012 10:14:01 AM PST by MondoQueen
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To: SeekAndFind

Tonight I CANCEL my Subscription the “The Blaze”. NO MORE BECK FOR ME EVER!


36 posted on 12/11/2012 10:15:36 AM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: presently no screen name
Who ever thought Beck, a Mormon, knew or obeyed the things of God? Same sex marriage is satan’s idea of marriage and Beck agrees with that.

Quite a chasm of difference between not wanting government involved in marriage at all and supporting gay marriage. But then that's totally lost on all you "conservatives" isn't it.

You know. Conservatives being the people oppposed to oppressive govt. Or are you just opposed to the liberal's idea of oppressive govt?

37 posted on 12/11/2012 10:15:59 AM PST by SwankyC
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To: SeekAndFind
He doesn't get it. If he wants the govt. to get completely out of regulating marriage, he'd have to change 10,000 laws and regs in 50 states and eliminate all marriage-based benefits, including those related to taxation, property, insurance, survivors' rights of all kinds, liability for debts, custody of/responsibility to children, etc.

He's not really proposing this. He's just making noises which ultimately boil down to: sanity must yield to insanity -- and then, oh, by the way, law, medicine and education will be bent to the agenda, dissenters will be hounded, marginalized and prosecuted, social organizations and human services will be queered, church-related institutions will be beaten down to the ground, out Kindergartners will be forbidden to assume that Family Day means Moms and Dads, and our 5th graders will be memorizing the key principles of dildo hygiene and safe sodomy.

"Other than that, of course, it doesn't affect a thing."

My respect for Glenn Beck just sank to a new low: not because he's wicked, but because he's stupid.

38 posted on 12/11/2012 10:16:05 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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To: SeekAndFind

I never cared for beck,always thought he was a phony conservative and this proves it to me.He just cares about the money.Too many so called conservatives are nothing but rinos.


39 posted on 12/11/2012 10:16:12 AM PST by ohiobushman (Only in N.Y.C can u buy beer by the case,liquor by the gallon,but be a criminal buying a soda!)
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To: Dead Corpse

There is this thing called “family law”. It deals with issues of child custody, tutorship, financial and social responsibilities and so on. So that dependent children and sometimes spouses are cared for, healthy and hopefully not utterly ignorant. Every civilization has family law, and every government deals with it, either well or poorly. Not dealing with it at all is an example of dealing with it poorly.

For those of you who are slow of thought.


40 posted on 12/11/2012 10:16:22 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Not so "commanding", not so "inevitable".)
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