Posted on 02/09/2016 8:53:30 AM PST by wagglebee
CONCORD, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Does Donald Trump support the gay agenda or oppose it? On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, observers are still scratching their heads about where the GOP frontrunner actually stands.
Trump has repeatedly and consistently said he supports the natural definition of marriage, but can a President Trump be relied on to promote it resolutely and cogently? It is this question that has many marriage activists expressing concern about his increasingly likely hold on the GOP nomination.
In fact, the National Organization for Marriage has gone so far as to say that Trump has “abandoned” the pro-marriage cause.
Trump himself underscored the problem on the weekend when he told a New Hampshire television station that from the White House he would push “equality” for homosexuals even further forward.
A cable news reporter self-identifying as a lesbian asked him last Thursday after a rally in Exeter, "When President Trump is in office, can we look for more forward motion on equality for gays and lesbians?"
“Well, you can and look - again, we're going to bring people together. That's your thing, and other people have their thing,” Trump told Sue O’Connell of New England Cable News. “We have to bring all people together. And if we don't, we're not gonna have a country anymore. It's gonna be a total mess.”
Following the comments, Trump appeared Sunday on ABC’s This Week program with George Stephanopoulos and would not commit to appointing Supreme Court justices who’d overturn Obergefell, though that would be his “preference.”
“We’re going to look at judges. They’ve got to be great judges. They’ve got to be conservative judges. We’re going to see how they stand depending on what their views are. But that would be my preference,” he told Stephanopoulos. “I would prefer that they stand against, but we’ll see what happens. It depends on the judge.”
Trump’s comments follow his statements during a Fox News Sunday interview last week, when he said, “If I'm elected, I would be very strong on putting certain judges on the bench that I think maybe could change things, but they've got a long way to go.”
“[Marriage] should be a states rights issue,” Trump continued. “I can see changes coming down the line, frankly.”
When asked by Fox if he “might try to appoint justices to overrule the decision on same-sex marriage,” Trump replied, “I would strongly consider that, yes.”
The real estate mogul criticized the Supreme Court for the Obergefell decision imposing homosexual “marriage” on all 50 states last June, but then later in August, Trump voiced support to NBC News for banning companies from firing employees on the basis of sexual orientation. “I don't think it should be a reason” to fire workers, he said at the time on Meet the Press.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and a number influential evangelicals have endorsed Senator Ted Cruz in the race for president. The Texas senator has not only committed to appointing pro-marriage justices, but says the president and the states can rightly defy the “fundamentally illegitimate” ruling just as President Lincoln defied the Dred Scott decision.
NOM has also been highly critical of Trump, saying he has “abandoned” their cause. The organization said in its January 27 blog post just prior to the Iowa Caucus that “Donald Trump does not support a constitutional amendment to restore marriage to our laws. Worse, he has publicly abandoned the fight for marriage. When the US Supreme Court issued their illegitimate ruling redefining marriage, Trump promptly threw in the towel with these comments on MSNBC: ‘You have to go with it. The decision's been made, and that is the law of the land.’”
NOM had said the week before that Trump “has made no commitments to fight for marriage, or the rights of supporters of marriage to not be discriminated against and punished for refusing to go along with the lie that is same-sex 'marriage.'”
New Hampshire voters have been tracked as showing support for homosexual “marriage,” as a poll last February showed 52 percent of Republican NH primary voters saying opposing gay “marriage” is unacceptable.
The latest CNN/WMUR tracking poll shows that overall 33 percent of likely Republican primary voters support Trump, giving him a growing 17-point lead over the nearest GOP contender. RealClearPolitics polling average in the state puts him at 31.0 percent support, with Marco Rubio second at 14.7, John Kasich third at 13.2, and Ted Cruz fourth at 12.7.
Knowing how to make money is a good start toward knowing how to stop spending it for nothing. It also gives the prudent person great leverage in stopping graft and corruption!
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Lawrence Tribe’s professor, Alan Dershowitz, said Cruz was his brightest.
Tribe is a gratuitous action appointee, not a genuine professor. {Politics matter at Harvard)
A Statesman as opposed to a politician. I totally agree!
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Trump has lost more money than he has made, but fortunately for Trump, it was “Other People’s Money” that he lost.
But somehow, much of that money that he lost managed to end up in the coffers of one of his subsidiaries, just like magic!
Helps to have friends in high places.
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Yah only hears the prayers of believers.
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Trump is no statesman, that is absolutely certain.
He is a thug.
My assessment is that he is closer to Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.â€
― Samuel Adams
“What is it the gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God. I know not what coarse others may take, but as for me GiVE ME LIBERTY or GIVE ME DEATH!”
Patrick Henry
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Your twisting and lies are the pain, and yes he will take them away at the appointed time.
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Tag line.
BUMP
I will agree with you on that.
If Cruz through Abbott were allowed to go back and argue the case, which I do not know if they could or could not at that point, I wish they would have, too.
It probably would have been argued using the 10th amendment, would be my speculation on that.
(My turn to speculate, LOL).
He was assigned those cases and he did his job. He DID have the Constitution on his side after all. Pretty heavy weight I’d say along with 200= years of “Tradition” and precedence.
Are we to assume that the next President can wave his hand and end Gay Marriage and Abortion? Is that what people here actually think?
You will notice that Trump agrees with Ted Cruz that Gay Marriage is a State issue, not that it matters now. The SCOTUS eviscerated the Tenth Amendment with their Ruling.
At best, a President can sign a Bill restricting some aspects of Abortion, but he cannot eliminate it. He cannot do a thing about Gay Marriage. In fact, I’m waiting for the supporters of Incestuous and Polygamous Marriage to get on board now that the SCOTUS opened the flood gates.
Reagan didn’t end Abortion while President. As Governor of CA he signed a Bill approving it. That didn’t stop most people her from Voting for him as POTUS, twice.
I’m a Cruz guy first, with Trump as my second choice, but this is just another exercise in futility.
You are far too over the rails to make any sense anymore. give it up!
Are you trying to say Tribe did not teach Cruz? Deflection, anyone?
I wish there was a video of Trump making these comments.
If this report is true then this is a major strike against Trump imo. We know pretty well that Trump probably does not read FR and is consequently probably not familiar with the fact that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called LGBT ”rights.”
We now have to question if ”Christian” Trump ever opens his Bible.
The 10th amendment was eviscerated by Abraham Lincoln.
“If this report is true.....”
Why don’t you simply view the video and see it is NOT true before you start hypothesizing?
Have you taken your meds lately?
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