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.
I am shocked, shocked, that Puritans would misquote anyone, or burn witches. Round up the usual suspects.
Here’s the interview, the homosexual pandering starts around 2:30:
http://www.necn.com/on-air/as-seen-on/NECN_020416_BROADSIDETRUMP_6pm_NECN-367745781.html
I saw it wagglebee.
You are taking it out of the context of everyone pitching in to solve problems.
A question comes in about equality for gays while trump is talking about all the problems, and this lesbian asks if there will be equality for gays, and Trump says sure and that everyone will be united to fight our problems.
That’s what’s going on and pulling what amounts to something like seconds out of an entire interview is erroneous application...otherwise known as taking out of context.
Since the days of the Founders, American has had exactly ONE extremely wealthy president whose wealth was not largely the result of inheritance. This president was an orphan at age nine, raised by relatives and attended college on a scholarship, yet made so much money from the mining business that he retired by the time he was forty and continued earning millions from his investments for the next fifty years. His name was Herbert Hoover.
Do you mean the wall that Mexico will pay for and that will have a great, yuuuge, welcoming gate that will let the "good ones" come back right away? Got it.
But I guess that if Mexico refuses to pay, we won't get the gate? Tough luck, as they say in Queens.
I have a fear that Trump could be a combination of Nixon meets Hoover, and I am not talking about the Watergate stuff.
With all due respect wagglebee, I do not know where you are coming from regarding your misguided stance on homosexuality and the law.
More specifically, regardless of pro-gay interpretations of the 14th Amendments (14A) Equal Protections Clause by state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices, note that the Founding States had originally decided that the states did not have to respect the rights protected by the Bill of Rights (BoR). Only the federal government had to respect such rights.
So even if the Founding States had expressly protected LGBT rights in the BoR, the states did not have to respect such rights.
And even after 14A was ratified, both John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, and later the Supreme Court, clearly indicated that 14A applies to the states only those rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, LGBT protections not among those rights.
”Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” - Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
” 3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” - Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
Again, since the states had never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT rights before 14A was ratified, the states not obligated to respect constitutional rights anyway, such rights did not automatically exist after that amendment was ratified.
I am not a Trump supporter, but the wall is the only thing he seems to get any traction with.
He can’t seem to stake out a consistent position on any other issue.
Trump has stated endlessly that marriage should be between a man and a woman. He will work to have same sex marriage repealed and leave the issue up to each of the states. You guys ought to pay more attention!
No, I'm not at all misguided.
I am unaware of ANY LAW at the state or federal level that has EVER denied rights to homosexuals.
Did states have laws against sodomy? Sure, but this was about a sexual act, not a person's sexual orientation.
Did states have laws prohibiting certain people from voting? Sure, but it made no distinction about sexual orientation.
Did states have laws banning homosexuals from being married? NO! Homosexuals have ALWAYS had the same rights of marriage as anyone else, e.g. if they were of age and not otherwise barred from marriage (incarcerated, etc.), they were free to marry another person of the opposite gender. Even during the period of the abhorrent anti-miscegenation laws, nothing was said about a person's sexual orientation.
No, what homosexuals have been seeking now are SPECIAL rights that have NEVER been granted to anyone.
He also said he intends to push gay rights.
So, Trump is either a liar or a liberal.
Or just says whatever to get elected.
Jimmy Carter wants Trump as president because Trump has no core values and will be “malleable” in DC. That’s all one really needs to know about Trump.
You can TrusTED a hell of a lot more than you can trust Trump who changes his positions on a monthly basis.
Which St_Thomas_Aquinas is talking?
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February 9, 2016 at 10:25:16 AM CST · 33 of 49
St_Thomas_Aquinas to uncitizen
Who is the target audience of this crap who actually believes it? Seriously, who?
Liberal professors, government employees, trust-fund babies and 20-somethings.
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David Bowie had coke-fuelled closet threesome with Mick Jagger, claims late legend’s bodyguard
February 9, 2016 at 10:25:12 AM CST · 11 of 50
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Impala64ssa
Mick Jagger’s 30 year old son was asked recently whether he preferred the Beatles or the Stones.
He replied, “The Stones. But if you were to ask me to choose between the Kinks and the Stones, I’d choose the Kinks.â€
That made my day. Love The Kinks.
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Notes on Cultural Collapse
February 9, 2016 at 10:14:43 AM CST · 7 of 57
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Kaslin
The idea that society can’t police itself — can’t enforce standards regarded as both right and useful — is nonsensical, a cover for weakness, a balm for the economic itch. A Dallas city councilman, noting the city’s efforts to keep the convention hall full, suggests, “If we’re going to compete with Vegas, we have to be prepared to get a little Vegas on us.†Wow! Wouldn’t the author of The Federalist Papers like to hear that one?
You often see that spirit here.
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Pope believes Putin is the man to help Christians around the world
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 12 of 23
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Trumpinator
From the article:
Pope Francis said Putin is “the only one with whom the Catholic Church can unite to defend Christians in the Eastâ€, according to Sputnik.
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Ted Cruz, the presidential candidate who wants to increase the H-1B cap by 500%
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 25 of 97
St_Thomas_Aquinas to xzins
Cruz: ‘Poison Pill’ Amendments Killed Rubio’s ‘Gang of Eight’ Bill
Jeff Sessions: “Ted Cruz was on my side and fought this legislationâ€
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Trump events in NH filled to capacity (videos & photos)
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 63 of 63
St_Thomas_Aquinas to campaignPete R-CT
Trump draws full house at own event as he snubs Fox News debate [Iowa]
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Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 50 of 52
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Cincinatus’ Wife
You must be over the target.
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Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 49 of 52
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Buckeye McFrog
What has he got against carpenters?
“He was a sh***y carpenter, a friend told Politico Magazine. His carpentry was not going to support him, and didn’t.â€
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Bernie Sanders Prevails and G.O.P. Has 3-Way Tie as 3 New Hampshire Towns Vote
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 48 of 52
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Cincinatus’ Wife
My wife was reading me Sanders’ bio yesterday. He was an itinerant hippie carpenter (a terrible carpenter by all accounts) and commie grifter until he became mayor of Burlington at age 39.
Like so many radical socialists, he has never held a steady job in the private sector.
I would LOVE to see his resume matched up against Ted’s in the general election.
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Trump calls Cruz a p___y. Is this really what we want? (vanity)
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 174 of 247
St_Thomas_Aquinas to soozla
Trump did not “call another candidate†that.....a woman in the audience did!!!!!!!!!
Of course.
Did you watch the video?
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Trump calls Cruz a p___y. Is this really what we want? (vanity)
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 173 of 247
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Lib-Lickers 2
IMHO you were a pussy for not spelling it out
Why did Braveheart make the woman repeat what she said?
Trump wanted plausible denial.
“I didn’t say it, she did! I just repeated what she said!â€
Wait for it.
Trump, you Braveheart, man.
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Trump calls Cruz a p___y. Is this really what we want? (vanity)
February 9, 2016 at 10:09:00 AM CST · 172 of 247
St_Thomas_Aquinas to Gaffer
So comparing Trump’s profanities to LBJ makes it OK? LBJ was a goon.
Urinating in a sink, inviting people into his bathroom, showing off his abdominal scar, exposing his private parts: after a while nothing surprises a biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Three New Revelations About LBJ
Nothing would surprise me about Trump.
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Please note post 154. There are multiple St_Thomas_Aquinas answering on various threads at 10:09:00... you never know which one is talking at any given time.
sigh :^(
The legal majority voters of California had exercised their 10th Amendment (10A)-protected power of the people to prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage. But their 10A powers were wrongly ignored by state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-gay activist justices.
And as I said in previous post, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect LGBT agenda rights. So the corrupt feds actually have no constitutional authority to say yes or no to PC, vote-winning LGBT ”rights.”
Really the most amazing part of it is that Trump might actually think he is the man to bring the country together in any way, shape, or form.
Amazing, quite the miracle worker..... but I am going to call them out every time I seem them post. Just like Cruz their candidate, deceitful .
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