Posted on 10/04/2007 12:49:47 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
The Brody File is working around the clock and this time has found video of Fred Thompson talking this week to the Des Moines Register editorial board. He’s explaining his view of a federal marriage amendment. This video has not been out there before. It is now, courtesy of The Brody File. Watch it here.
Part of the transcription reads:
“A judge couldn’t impose this (gay marriage) state or federal unless they had the acquiescence or unless the state legislature moved on its own to put it into law. If a state chose to recognize it (gay marriage) and the Governor signed off and signed it into legislation so be it. My opinion would be that that would be a very bad thing and a very surprising thing.”
His position here is not new. But the words “so be it” may be just a tad bit flip for social conservatives. The marriage issue could very well be a problem for Fred Thompson with many Evangelical voters. I know that his view is not well received with certain Evangelical groups. Comments like "so be it" don't help.
You see, let me try and explain what’s going on here. The millions of religious conservatives who are adamantly for a strict federal marriage amendment believe that marriage IS a one size fits all approach. Thompson is trying the federalism track here but here’s where he gets into trouble. Let’s take slavery for example. Hypothetically, if a state legislature approves slavery and a Governor signs it into law, then “so be it”? Of course not.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbn.com ...
Take it up with the Creator of the Universe.
“accepted societal mores of the day.”
BS most people in the even 1800s knew the property argument was BS, ratioalization of convenience.
I do. No different than a mother paying a hit-man to kill her child.
In other words, we’re your main competition and you want us gone. Understandable. Censorious and cowardly, but understandable.
I'd say the problem lies more in your interpretation of what He said.
It was fully replied to on the other thread and you either missed it or you are a liar like she is. I do not care which or why and will point it out every time you or anyone else try and name drop the worthless traitor sellout.
Cheers !
Explain how a freeper for Mitt is a smear when this is Youtube is in Fred's own word not a doctored tape like they do to Mitt to fit their agenda!
Fred made this Youtube in a way to try not of offend the SSM!
This frightens me.
See post 33 along with my and JimRob’s responses and you’ll understand what we were talking about.
Your candidate, and your shilling, attacks, and lies, are highly dishonorable and beneath the dignity of this website. The decision to excise the Rudybots, who were behaving in similar fashion, was justified, and so is your removal.
please give the link for the #33 is not clear!
What was that suppose to be it took me right back where I started!
It’s just a matter of semantics. The “people” retain the power to cede power but the people in and of themselves have no tangible power.
But don’t confuse rights with power as obviously people have many rights that they have conferred upon themselves though constitutions both federal and state.
**The ONLY reason I can think he does not want to dump the unsupportable federalism argument is that he has some closet homosexuals somewhere on his staff **
Fred’s communications director, Robert Traynham, is openly homosexual.
http://www.race42008.com/index.php?s=Robert+Traynham
rest, it has become so bad that any news article or fact, even a quote by Fred, is considered to be an attack on Fred.
Sad.
So one guy that works for him is Gay and Fred is dumping the marriage idea.
Right.
It could be something about realistic and acihevable goals, but no matter, we’ll go with your unbiased ideas...
I have no idea if the two are connected. Probably not. I simply posted a fact in response to another poster’s inquiry.
You guys are paranoid.
Deb, you owe me a keyboard AND a monitor...
I am still laughing....
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