Posted on 01/17/2013 10:44:03 AM PST by Brightitude
DEMOCRATS (109 VOTES)
My party should support it: 97%
My party should oppose it: 0%
My party should avoid the issue: 2%
Other: 1%
"Marriage equality is a vote-getter for Democrats and a vote-loser for the party of the last century, the Republicans."
"More and more states are adopting marriage equality, and it is time for the U.S.A. to lead on this issue."
"No issue has changed more dramatically than support for gay marriage over the last 10 years. In 20 years, it won't even be an issue."
"It's a nonissue. Americans support the concept. Let's move on!"...
REPUBLICANS (99 VOTES)
My party should support it: 27%
My party should oppose it: 11%
My party should avoid the issue: 48%
Other: 14%
"Wouldn't it be fascinating if, for once, the Republicans were on the front side of a historic wave, rather than thrashed around in the undertow?"
"There is a conservative case in favor of gay marriage that can easily be made around the issues of smaller government and lower taxes."
"We can't be a party that supports a zone of personal freedom and then try to use federal power to curtail it. Plus, we increasingly look prejudiced, and not a little stupid, on this issue."...
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He’ll be back then.
Yes, it’s very likely. It’s as if we’re so wonderful they just can’t stay away!
It’s a mental disconnect for them.
In real life, they grab your backside and can’t understand the concept that “NO” means “NO” without the added impulse of a fist through their face backing it up.
I like the picture!
Note that "Lord God of hosts" means "Lord God of about a million warrior dudes like this one, with flaming swords." At every Mass! More crowded than we think!
In Spanish, it's Dios de los ejercitos, God of the Armies. I just wish some of them would keep Frank under control ...
A long leash might work.
So another immoral turd is shown the door!
Awesome!
Robert Erhlich was the only Republican governor of Maryland since 1969. But near the end of his first term, he appointed a gay judge to the Family Court. He never got a second term. PC was more important to him than his party, his state, his religion or his country.
Sellout.
Moron.
Frank would scream.
We try to work things out so that one of the teens can be home with Frank fairly often, but it's difficult with people in so many different choirs and activities. The Spanish congregation is used to my making insane and ever-more-vigorous gestures to restrain Frank, short of screaming "Stop that or I'll knock you unconscious!" into the microphone.
The finger-snap followed by throat-slashing gesture usually provokes some chuckling.
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