Posted on 10/29/2006 9:58:20 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wow! This is news to me. I haven't followed him since he has been out of office. I'm very disappointed to hear about his change of heart. He always struck me as a Christian, himself.
Puh-leeze. Internet gambling? Never so much as heard of it, even on FR, as a federal issue. Obviously there was no big 'demagoguery' or controversy at the time. And that's hardly the sort of thing social/religious conservatives care about, anyhow. Got any less pathetic examples? The *only* thing I can think of in recent memory where social conservatives had any noticeable influence was the Harriet Miers nomination.
Marriage is also a social contract that everyone has a stake in. That's why the state has been involved in marriage from the inception of the Republic. It is fundamental, and we weaken it and destroy it at our peril.
Marriage has already been weakened and destroyed in Europe, and the native populations of those short-sighted countries are rapidly becoming extinct.
Abortion and contraception have already dealt near death blows to the family by relegating its purpose--procreation and the rearing of children--to a secondary benefit at best and a nuisance at worst.
Gay marriage will further weaken traditional marriage in the same way that flooding the money supply with counterfeit bills destroys the value of money.
In the final analysis it isn't the number of abortions or gay marriages in a narrow sense that will doom us. It is the rewriting of the story we tell and believe about ourselves as Americans that will do it.
The story that built this nation was that Americans were virile and fertile, strong, no-nonsense, hard-working men and women who married for life and reared families of children that grew up to be virile and fertile, strong, no-nonsense, and hard-working men and women just like their parents.
That script is being rewritten along a profoundly sick, effete, and passive European model that prizes ease, comfort, and self-pleasure over the hard of rearing families to take on the essential nation and economy-sustaining burdens of tomorrow.
There are limited ways to restore the script. While a marriage amendment will not rewrite the script, it will prevent counterfeit homosexual marriage from being emended into the text.
That's better than sitting on our hands and letting the traditional American family die without a whimper.
Thank you, Dick Armey, for pissing off a portion of the Republican base just before the election. I appreciate that. *rolling my eyes*
This article clearly is an attempt by the MSM, serving their Dem masters, to suppress the conservative vote -- get them mad at the Republicans and have them stay home, so the Dems, lead by Nancy Pelosi can win.
I hope people are smarter than this and won't let the Dems take over the country.
There are a lot of very close races, where a few votes can make a difference.
Sounds like Dick Armey has left politics, taken his conservative mask off, and decided to burn his bridges behind him.
So long, don't let the door hit you, Dicky!
There's something truly disgusting about pulling a stunt like this right before the election. I hope his book hits the remainder table. Liberals won't buy it, and now neither will conservatives. What a jerk.
HAHAHA!!! Where is the MSM and their editorial investigations of the "Nasty old side of the DNC"
I would love to see some articles interviewing Zell Miller and his opinion of the left wing loons that have held the rats party for the last 40 years.
So I wear a breast plate with a cross on it and am a 'mother' of an SOB. Who's asking?
He said it in a book. These days, you've gotta say something sensational to sell your book.
Basically, he's getting paid to trash the GOP.
Um...becoming the majority party?
It's fascinating what you can learn about politicians when they're retired and don't feel the need to court votes anymore.
You're right. The GOP has not pushed thru legislation at the instance of the Religious Right. On the other hand, the Religious Right has not been getting the GOP elected either, so they aren't in a very good position to complain.
The fact is that there really aren't that many Christians in America anymore. You can see that when you're on your way to church on Sunday morning. The roads are deserted.
hmm - a relative description (although the trend of concern is indeed there - each generation must be re-evangelized and it's not been going as well as it needs to of late). Someone has nonthekess pointed out that church attendance on any given Sunday is far greater than the total annual attendance at professional sports events...
Glad he isn't my daddy.
His is just the kind of influence that has used Christians, manipulating us to gain support for Country Club Republicans.
I think you're right. But there's nothing sadder than a man who has spent his life in public service, and then repudiates everything that people thought he stood for.
I doubt if this will endear him to the givers of cocktail parties, because nobody likes a turncoat, not even those who have benefited from his treason.
He has burned his bridges, and will likely live to regret it.
Good point.
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