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.
He is for small government?
We have illegals invading our country
We are spending billions on health care for non citizens
schools and colleges for illegals as well
free housing and welfare for them and their children
Our country is going broke trying to pay for all of these “benefits” and “entitlements” to non citizens
we have an enemy (ISIS) that is sending over “refugees” to attack us from within
AND OUR BIGGEST CONCERN ARE THE QUEERS? WTF
When your house is on fire, the last thing you should be doing is arguing what color to paint the kitchen.....
Trump is unpredictable. Tge others are very predictable. They’ll get in, do the work their donors demand and we’ll be left out again
Trump supporters have no clue what they are getting into if their man is elected. He is so full of crap and he is playing on their fear concerns to boost himself. He will govern with a very liberal agenda. There will be no wall, there will be no making America great again. It will be like 0bama never left.
Ted smashed the IA turnout record to smithereens. Most Trump supporters initially claimed they preferred Cruz but he wasn’t ‘electable’.That’s changed since they were assimilated into the HIVE.
They wouldn’t go back to Ted if he won NH outright.
Perhaps Trump was "blindsided," but that's what happens when you run for office. The correct answer is, "I will do everything in my power to restore traditional marriage," not some version of "can't we all just get along."
The ONLY thing that Trump hasn't backpedaled on is "the Wall" and I don't believe for a second that he or anyone else could actually get one built.
Re post #15. Cruz is being financed by homosexual millionares who have fund raising dinners in NYC. Do you consider them sexual deviants too?
[He did not say what is claimed here, He responded to a loaded leading question that said it with a deflection saying he wanted to bring people together. Its dishonest to claim he said it and shows desperation.]
This just proves that Cruzers are either complete retards, or have the moral decency of a pile of dog turds to spread these lies around in hopes of people falling for the BS.
I put my money on the former...
Lawrence v Texas was in 2003.
How did Cruz punt on something he wasn’t involved in?
Re post 24- Right on xzins. I agree with you completely.
Sounded like a pretty non-committal answer to me. Bringing together does not mean support in terms they envision.
I did too. This crap is endless. What is not endless that has just come to light is Cruz's tax plan that ends business contributions to Social Security. What that means is that you would no longer have a link between a specific tax and the promise of a Social Security payment.
This is the contrived beginning of the planned end of Social Security. Now some would applaud that (of course, Reagan raised the payroll tax to solidify Social Security)... but think what would happen in the general election once the democrats publish that little bit of information about Cruz - that businesses no longer support Social Security. Cruz would not carry a single state, not one.
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Trump has always, and will always support Queer rights.
Its his NY values.
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It’s just exhausting keeping up with the endless chatter of those trying to parse every single word the man says.
I got words that should be parsed - “afterwards, we can have a dialogue about that” - Cruz on amnesty - SPIT
One deflects when one does not want to be held accountable for one’s position. He is apparnelty concerned about the reaction of those one side of the issue or the other, so he dodges the question.
Sounds a bit “feline”, wouldn’t you say?
“That’s a reason why I still cannot choose between DT and TC.”
Respectfully, I don’t get that at all.
Trump has a long history of being a con man and being a liberal. It’s very apparent he is saying anything to get elected.
Odds are, he knows he’s about to go bankrupt for the 5th time, and this one is for real. His only chance is to become president.
Is this different from Obama or the same?
For all his bluster, the man is astonishingly inarticulate when asked to be specific.
Yes, I don’t recognise this formerly (mostly) family-friendly site anymore. Now I see the phrase “church ladies” being used as an insult on this conservative, Christian site. Since when is it an insult for a conservative to be a church lady, or a church man?
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