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This may be the game-changer the GOP needs, especially when one considers the current state of public opinion and the trend lines:

By the end of 2012, 12 states and the District of Columbia had support for same-sex marriage at or above 50%. Of these 12 states, all currently perform marriages, civil unions, or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Thirteen additional states presently are within 5 percentage points of majority support. In the last eight years, every state has increased in its support for marriage for same-sex couples with an average increase of 13.6%. If present public opinion trends continue, another 8 states will be above 50% support by the end of 2014.

The obvious historical parallel is also interesting in this regard:


1 posted on 10/21/2014 8:11:17 AM PDT by e-gadfly
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50 posted on 10/21/2014 8:54:48 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Fag this, fag that...sheesh, don’t you homos ever get tired of pontificating about what you do in your bedrooms and how the rest of us just need to not only embrace it but support and celebrate it?

GTH already...so sick and tired of fags...you’re abnormal...you have a deviant sexual desire...your deviant sexual proclivities are what DEFINE you, nothing else.

I won’t ever accept it let alone anything else with regards to HOMOSEXUALITY.

Homosexual because there’s nothing gay about it.


51 posted on 10/21/2014 9:06:30 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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This person who has this opinion must live in the liberal republican bubble. I don’t why this thread even should be allowed here. Its seems like someone is advocating for this. Romney was in support and did so by rewriting marriage from one man and one woman to 2 people having some protections under the law to be recognized as a legal marriage. He didn’t win. People were repulsed by this. So, they can try another candidate and the base will not put the stamp of approval on that candidate. It’s not marriage. It’s not gay friendly. It’s a homosexual behavior. Can’t we get away from the political correct cover, it’s not normal to the majority of human beings. I will never accept that as marriage. There’s a lot of violent behavior in the same homosexual community which is again covered up by this media. Have you ever seen a 59 year old man chase down a 17 year old boy. I have. The liberalism of these republicans of wanting to be liked by their oppositions are truly dangerous for the society as a whole. You will Never. Ever. Change God’s law. Not happening. No man has a right to change the moral compass that was already given from a higher authority. Who gives this author the right to be all powerful over others. His law is right. God’s law is wrong. You can’t have it both ways. This is indoctrination of acceptance by those who Decide to do this and to those who want their loved ones to be accepted. These people want their self worth (by accepting these choices of their actions) validated. The courts can force man’s law on paper, it won’t work.


52 posted on 10/21/2014 9:06:44 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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None of this addresses *WHY* Homosexuality is becoming popular.

It is fine to talk about polls, but you need to get to the root underlying problem which is driving the polls. What is driving the polls is homosexual propaganda disguised as entertainment and piped into millions of households every day.

Politics are downstream from culture, and what is rotting the culture is the Perverts in Hollywood who create this propagandatainment.

If Hollywood (and New York) were devoting as much time to rehabilitating the image of Satan Worshipers, we would be seeing a spike in the popularity of Satanism.


53 posted on 10/21/2014 9:07:26 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds

56 posted on 10/21/2014 9:13:23 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Crispy fried troll on sale at aisle 3.


57 posted on 10/21/2014 9:15:30 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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58 posted on 10/21/2014 9:16:18 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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You might be kind enough to credit the guy who came up with the chart. It's an XKCD comic. Randall Munroe.

You might also consider that what you see is a cultural trend being forced down the throat of an otherwise supine public. It isn't a good thing.

59 posted on 10/21/2014 9:16:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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A “Republican” who gives up on God, family, country is no Republican.

No surrender, no retreat!!

Give me liberty or give me death!!


63 posted on 10/21/2014 9:27:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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This thread has been spindled, bent, folded, stapled, parindled, and faxed to outer Borneo.
No, you may not have another.

Pulled on 10/21/2014 8:55:14 AM PDT by Ninja Moderator, reason:

Failure to pay applicable troll licensing and spay/neuter fees.


64 posted on 10/21/2014 9:35:23 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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I will NEVER accept this sexual perversion garbage, period.

These perverts should be shunned back into the closet.

I don’t care how many laws are passed by the fools in this country, there is no way that the sticking of a males penis into another males anus and calling it sex, is ever going to be normal and their so called marriages will never be seen by me as legitimate. These people are sick, sick, sick.

As for biracial marriages, I have no problem with that and I see it as normal....and it damn sure isn’t perverted.

Do you like Gladiator movies?


66 posted on 10/21/2014 9:53:37 AM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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68 posted on 10/21/2014 10:03:15 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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TAKE THY FAGGOTRY ELSEWHERE, BUT LEAVE THY HEAD AS MY PRIZE!!

BUT THE CARCASS IS MINE (urp)...

74 posted on 10/21/2014 10:20:47 AM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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Way to lose another election


77 posted on 10/21/2014 10:26:42 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Another No matter what thread filled with cheshires demanding compromise and abandonment of principle. Some day I may well ride lightning. But I was right about the infiltration and the existence of the ‘cheshire/Freeper left.

And this thread proves it.


78 posted on 10/21/2014 10:29:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("Refusing to vote against unprincipled people made Obama President. " - agere_contra)
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I have pretty much decided to stop voting altogether. This makes me think that decision is the right one to make.


97 posted on 10/21/2014 11:53:23 AM PDT by madprof98
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Did you pay the child a living wage for doing that chart?


118 posted on 10/21/2014 12:21:17 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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It's not a matter of the next nominee endorsing gay marriage. It's more about it not being an issue. And indeed, with so many other issues to worry about, it probably will be downplayed.

The attitude will be: if you want to keep your same-sex marriage ban, you can keep your same-sex marriage ban; if you want to keep your same-sex marriage, you can keep your same-sex marriage.

If that sounds weak-kneed or mealy-mouthed or like a prelude to deception and betrayal, so be it. It probably is, but it's also what will probably happen.

P.S. "The Daily Caller" was supposed to be a conservative site, wasn't it? When they talk about this as "marriage equality" it's a sign of the changes going on.

152 posted on 10/21/2014 2:53:16 PM PDT by x
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Same troll.


155 posted on 10/21/2014 4:16:24 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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If they do, he or she will not get my vote.


159 posted on 10/21/2014 5:13:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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