Posted on 09/26/2007 5:49:53 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
Thompson's refusal to back a nationwide ban on gay marriage has irritated potential supporters.
Fred Thompson is failing to meet expectations that he would rally widespread support from Christian conservatives, and he almost certainly will not receive a joint endorsement from the loose coalition of "pro-family" organizations, according to leaders of the movement.
Many religious conservatives, faced with a Republican primary top tier that lacked a true kindred spirit, initially looked to Thompson as a savior. But the former Tennessee senator has disappointed or just not sufficiently impressed the faith community since his formal campaign launch earlier this month.
While Christian conservatives once seemed willing to readily give Thompson the benefit of the doubt earlier this summer, when questions were raised about his lobbying for a pro-abortion-rights group, they are not willing to turn the other cheek anymore.
Even some on the religious right who remain sympathetic to Thompson are unhappy about his refusal to back a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and were unpleasantly surprised by his confession that he doesn’t belong to or attend any church and won’t talk about his faith.
It was Thompson’s refusal to discuss his faith that is likely to deny him any unified backing from the organizations that comprise the Arlington Group, the umbrella coalition of almost every major social conservative group in the GOP constellation.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It’s amazing how attitudes change in a little more than a year.
I found all of these threads declaring the absolute necessity of FMA, yet when Fred says it isn’t needed, everyone changes their minds. WOW the power of persuasion!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645001/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642802/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640742/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642848/posts
“There is not much distance from some of America’s home grown fanatics and the ones of the middle east. Believe what we believe are we’ll kill you.”
Are you comparing U.S. Christians with Jihadists that blow up buses ful of children and behead “infidels?”
Not a power the President has - nor should he ever.
There are bigger fish to fry. Like illegals, fanatic Muslims and the ChiComs.
The future on this is pretty well predictable:
1) The FMA will fail because libertarians will side with liberals and block it. The libertarians will say they did it to protect states’ rights.
2) The Supreme Court will use the 14th Amendment to strip every state in the union of its power to define marriage, ordering every state to implement state sanctioned same-sex “marriage” with all deliberate speed.
3) The Supreme Court will extend its Bob Jones ruling to homosexuals, and the IRS will move against any churches that don’t perform same-sex “marriages”.
4) The federal government will expand Social Security and other such programs to include homosexuals.
5) Liberals will high-five one another. Conservatives will say “I told you so”. Libertarians will scratch their heads and wonder what went wrong.
Not technically, I guess. But he's been doing a lot of preaching lately...including with "leaked" e-mails.
Where is the Catholic church on Rudy? Where is Mitt on the Catholic church. Where is Mitt on Christiananity? Where are either of them month to month on any issue?
If in fact Fred Thompson has leanings toward social liberalism it could certainly hurt him among many evangelicals. As far as I am concerned, a social liberal will never get my vote. However, I’ll not write a candidate off based on a single story.
Reagan won 23 years ago. I’m talking about today.
It’s amazing how attitudes change in a little more than a year.Everyone? Two of the four links you posted had fewer than 50 replies. And the other two barely had 50 replies. That's an average of maybe 30-35 replies per post.
I found all of these threads declaring the absolute necessity of FMA, yet when Fred says it isn’t needed, everyone changes their minds. WOW the power of persuasion!http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645001/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642802/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1640742/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642848/posts
Not this evangelical. I want my guy to state he believes in God and has a personal relationship with Him. I’m not one to question what that relationship is as I believe it is between Him and Me.
This is all bull Shiite. I’m “one of those people” and I like Thompson. If there is little ole me, there is also millions more around. That makes this article BS.
Andf what about the state where the leader promotes and prevents righteousness from being upheld?
Would you support the man/WOMAN who wantsd to let perversion reign as the law of the land?
I’m part of the religious right. But we’ve got to recognize that we’re a minority. If you insist that your candidate adopt all of the positions of a minority group, he will lose. Pick one or two, and give them some slack on the others.
I think I'm a member of the religious right, and if you're so Brilliant, what positions do we advocate, that would make the Presidency an impossibility?
We had a great list of things which are no longer conservative or important due to Fred Thompson. Guess we have another item to add, lol.
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