Posted on 09/06/2013 1:28:28 PM PDT by Mozilla
Well, well, well Glenn Beck, who I like, just clarified his position on gay marriage. He is in full support of gay marriage. He was interviewed by the New York Times magazine. They brought up his stance on gay marriage.
"How did your fans respond to your support of gay marriage?
I don’t care. The point is that government shouldn’t be involved in marriage.
Did you hear any reaction?
Can we stop dividing ourselves? Do racists exist? Yes. Do bigots exist? Yes. But most of us are not. Most Americans just want to get along. Why can’t we do that? What has happened to us? "
Nice of him to not care to opposite opinions. I then found this:
Glenn Beck And S.E. Cupp Agree That GOP Must Accept Gay Marriage, But How?
When the guy say he is more and more libertarian each day well he means it.
I don't support libertarians. Or else I would be libertarian and not conservative. They are not one and the same. But I try to agree with them where I can. I get libertarians are all about state deciding this issue on their own. But they support it and they say the let the states decide it to not offend the GOP and conservatives who they need to win any elections. Like with Rand Paul. Evoke state rights on every social issue.
As for Glenn, he side-stepped the second questions. He knows it hurts him his stance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I think you are missing the point. You get government involved in this you better make sure you have your hands on the levers to get what you want. At this time, you don’t. That is a fact, not a personal judgement. What a lot of us want is the government to just get of our lives, period. As Mark Steyn has pointed out, the peasants of France under Louis XIV had more personal freedoms than we do in 2013 USA. The kings and nobles of yore did not care what their subjects were up to in their personal lives. We got big shots in DC wanting to tell us what to eat and how much to excercise. It’s for the children, you know. I do not want government to have the power over my personal life. I do not want them to tell me how much to eat. I do not want them to tell me how many guns I can buy, if any. If I want to take a roll in the hay with two broads, I do not want government telling me I can’t. My ideal would be to repeal any laws passed since 1881. If it was legal then, it should be legal now.
I don’t know what that was about, but when you can get around to it, read post 86.
God what a ridiculous childish fantasy, and a way to avoid reality. You can already do what you want and call it “marriage”, you could do that in 1950, it just doesn’t carry weight with the rest of us or in law, or for widow benefits for example.
Do whatever you want, call whatever you want marriage, you and your horse named spot, but it won’t be legal, and it wasn’t legal a 100 years ago, or 500 years ago or a 1000, or five thousand years ago.
We conservatives need your support to fight gay marriage, not for you to give up and start fantasizing about nonsense and worlds that never existed.
Legal marriage is not going anywhere.
Of course you don’t know what it is about, because you are to busy speaking and currently incapable of actually listening or comprehending.
Uh huh, that doesn't make any sense.
You have no clue.
You must be drunk, your posts aren’t saying anything that makes any sense outside of your own head.
Actually government should not be involved in marriage. Marriage was strictly a religious institution not a state institution.
First, that isn't going to happen, so why waste time on fantasy.
Second, that legalizes all marriage, including polygamy, because everything and everyone is a religion if they want to be, and Islam is definitely one, but you can start a new one tomorrow.
Thomas Jefferson, who dealt with marriage law as an attorney, lamented the religious takeover of marriage when the all powerful single church made it a religious ceremony instead of a civic ceremony, during the 5th century, when Rome was starting to lose control to the Popes.
America does not have a state religion, so to say that every church and every religion should define marriage is of course impossible, since Americans can marry without belonging to any religion, besides, that would simply mean that there is no definition at all because there is no single religion or church.
See post 110, you can already do what you want within your own religion, whether you are Mormon or Muslim, or Christian, or the gay goat church, but it may not be recognized as legal yet, for instance the polygamy of the Muslim religion.
Thomas Jefferson can be wrong.
I bet he didn’t work at it as hard as you do, you look at that information in post 110 correcting you, and you decide that the best escape is to make a meaningless crack using the name Jefferson.
Nice compilation of what “you found”. What’s your end game? What you claim is unadulterated BS.
Maybe Mozilla is conservative and opposes the “gay marriage” crowd.
VERY good. It’s what makes Beck such a puzzlement.
And maybe too many folks on FR will see someone's "specialty" post and jump all over someone for a false meme. I recall a bunch twisting their panties because Palin "was all for illegal immigration/amnesty and about a 100 other such crap. Someone who doesn't much care for a pundit, whether it is Rush/Hannity/Palin/Levin/anyone else, reads some tool's post making a false claim, and the FR "I knew it" brigade piles on. I listen to Beck from time to time and of recent weeks he's been warning about the homo creep being used to desensitize us - he's not pro homo marriage.
Beck is pro-homo.
This Beck guy is a fake.
You don’t need marriage to ajudicate child custody issues.
Spoken like someone in the know and despite lack of evidence. I guess that "just having that feeling in ones bones" is all it takes these days.
I hear someone has been gathering a LOT of data that Palin is really pro-illegals/pro-homos/ and a closet Leftist. Can't wait to see the pile on when that bombshell hits FR ... again.
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