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To: varina davis

Well, it’s the DemocRATS fault. They’ve been happy for years for the courts to force leftist policies down our throats, so initiatives are a way of fighting back. If the DemocRATS weren’t so insistent on forcing “gay marriage” on this country through the backdoor, there wouldn’t be the opportunity to use it as a wedge issue to get people to the polls to vote on an iniative or constitutional amdendment and simultaneouly boost Republican candidates.


4 posted on 02/10/2008 7:10:40 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

“... forcing “gay marriage” on this country through the backdoor...”

....’thru the backdoor’....heh, heh good pun whether you intended it that way or not.


11 posted on 02/10/2008 7:32:52 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Paleo Conservative
If the DemocRATS weren’t so insistent on forcing “gay marriage” on this country through the backdoor, there wouldn’t be the opportunity to use it as a wedge issue to get people to the polls to vote on an iniative or constitutional amdendment and simultaneouly boost Republican candidates.

True, but state amendments won't get it done. This is an Article IV attack on all the States via the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith & Credit Clause. It will require amending the U.S. Constitution to cure.

Karl Rove and George W. Bush knew that when they got state parties to put all those DOMA-related amendments on the ballot in 2004, which makes their use of them an exercise in cynicism, esp. since Bush himself has been behind-the-scenes committed to a gay-friendly policy in the top reaches of the Republican Party, including the appointment of gay men to e.g. the RNC and subcabinet jobs. This gay-friendly stance is documented online. The gay-straight "alliance"-type group at the top of the GOP is Republican Unity Coalition or RUC, their website was

http://www.republicanunity.com/news.htm

Which is now 404 compliant.

They forgot to take down the page cached last month by Microsoft's search engine, visible here, replete with prominent Republican names:

http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=72790376977809&mkt=en-US⟨=en-US&w=bc9c32ae&FORM=CVRE2

Charles Francis, listed as a contact for RUC, is an old personal friend of George W. Bush and the spiritus animans behind the RUC. Their basic position is, hey, we're all good tax-paying Republicans, so what if we're gay? Why should we have to put up with those mouth-breathing tent-shouter types in our big tent? We want to make homosexuality and morality non-issues in the GOP. Our party is all about economics, anyway.

The Wikipedia article is here, and there is also an article on about.com:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Unity_Coalition

24 posted on 02/10/2008 3:55:28 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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