Posted on 04/13/2009 7:54:26 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans! By David Knowles Apr 13th 2009 10:00AM
Here's a question: Can Meghan McCain, the blog-a-lot daughter of Senator John McCain, help bring the Republican Party into the twenty-first century? Well, with her column at The Daily Beast, and during her many television interviews, she sure is giving it a go. Today's screed, for instance, attempts to light a fire under the Republican posterior on the matter of including gay rights in the party platform:
If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric. As you can image, the road for gay Republicans hasn't been an easy one. Most find the words "homosexual" and "conservative" inherent contradictions, much the same way so many people can't seem to reconcile fiscal conservatism and the bit-tent philosophy of freedom and justice for all.
Later in the piece, Ms. McCain goes on to point out that supporting gay marriage rights does not necessarily come at the expense of other conservative values, like an opposition to abortion:
Recently, a conservative congressman was quoted saying, "If we don't save marriage, we can't remain pro-life." That's absurd.
She also adds:
So if anyone is still confused, let me spell it out for you. I believe life begins at conception and I believe that people who fall in love should have the option to get married.
So, McCain's argument is two-fold. Supporting gay rights is both pragmatic (the overwhelming majority of younger people support gay marriage) and moral (gay rights are human rights). It's an interesting mix. Part Libertarian, part party activist. The pragmatic part runs aground, however, when we consider the nation's views on keeping abortion legal.
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Well said.
You are right to how dangerous this movement is to our liberty.
The agenda of the left is to forcefully re-define the Constitution whereas sexuality of all sorts is considered a special protected right of expression in public while at the same time they attack the expression in public of any and all traditional values (family values, and religious values).
Eventually sexuality will be used as the premise for dissolving parental rights completely being that the leftwing media will continue to fight tooth and nail against decency standards in public and will continue to target childen with campaigns meant to over-sexualize them.
Of course if they can tell the people that they have no right to representation on the issue of marriage or on the issue of whether homosexuality is dangerous to society then they will have set a precedent for denying the people the right to representation on other issues of sexuality including the age of consent.
This serves the leftwing well because with the destruction of family units and parental rights the state can then step in and start being the main force in the indoctrination of every child in society.
“Unlike rape and child molestation it brings harm to those who choose to act on it.”
And Homosexuality doesn’t?
“There are many of us gays who would be fine with civil unions. Its not so much the position as it is the rhetoric of some anti-gays. Treating gays as some homogenous group of leftists who want to destroy western civilization turns some people off.”
A cogent observation. See my #134. IMHO there is a group out to destroy western civilization and no it is not gays. It’s a cultural marxist trend that is the problem imho.
When it came to feminism, the left would call opposition to feminism (and related fetishes like abortion) as “anti-women”. We have the same thing here. opposing the radical activists in any form is ‘anti-gay’.
Obviously throwing bible quotes and calling homosexuals immoral etc. only serves to drive gays to the other side and gives credence to the connection. Still its not a valid one: The interests of the group and the lefts use of that group for social engineering are two things.
At some point, non-radical gays and others would need to balance their own “live and let live” needs with wider concern for society. Do they want to see religious freedom suppressed in order to squash dissent over sexual morality?
If your “NinoFan” means Scalia, you might ponder his view on that.
Yes, my username refers to Scalia. He is one of the best justices on the Court. I admire his general adherence to originalism on the Court, but that doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything as a voter.
And I agree that there is a scary anti-religion storm brewing. Where we disagree is how to best fight it.
she is using “winning with words” by Prof. Lakoff.
He is a left wing propaganda guru. He advocates spining the marriage issue as about two people in “love” because nobody is allowed to be against love.
Thus two men playing with each other private parts is about “love” rather than a private sexual fetish behavior.
Meghan McCAin is a Tokyo Rose for the left.
“ask that you dont make it sound like Im trying to deceive anyone”
You have been honest and open in what you are saying,
so any such indication otherwise was a joke and nothing more.
On the overall topic of “helpful advice” from unhelpful corners like Meghan McCain, I would recommend Stacey Robert McCain. He mentioned how everyone is giving the GOP advice, and it always boils down to “the GOP should be more like me.” There’s a lot more to it than that, of course ...
See this long a worthwhile essay:
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/04/kooks-blue-state-republicans-rick-moran.html
someone PLEASE tell this woman her 15 minutes of fame clocked out on November the 5th
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Interesting discussion on the thread. The pie in the sky idea that the government should "get out" of marriage in the sense of marriage providing no legal protections is just so much hookah-fluff. Married people have always had a different social and legal status than single people and for good reason - protection of children, the household in common, and the marital relationship. Marriage is the foundation of human civilization. Marriage has always meant a man and a woman.
Back to McCain's idiot female issue - a media and liberal driven phenonemon which should be buried soon. It's starting to stink.
Actually the topic is not marriage here per se, but “gays” in the Repub party.
It was said perfectly well up thread - if homosexuals espouse conservative values INCLUDING NO SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS WHATSOEVER then they belong in the Repub party*. Problem is many so-called “gay” Republicans, such as the Log Cabin people, are merely a Trojan horse meant to change the GOP to an arm of the homosexual agenda.
*This is assuming for the sake of argument that the GOP gets is act together and becomes conservative. If that doesn’t happen, all bets are off.
she thinks she is the next jane fonda voice for the young.
no joke.
she is believing the PR spin the DEMOCRATS are telling her, AND she is getting reinforcemtn from clueless Mr. Steele.
This is part of the RINO hip hop strategy.
We need more sex perversion and sex perverts to be exhalted in our nation."
"We need more unrepentant sex perverts to push their overt attack against the Bible into the Republican Party."
not all young people support homos infact most don’t
she’s been a republican for a few months and now thinks she has the leadership and voice to tell the party we have to reach out to homos;
hey Megan your daddy lost, get over it and as far as anyone coming to us then they will on the principles we stand on and not some pandering to a bunch of queers who would never vote for us anyway
we are American, not this or that , the tactic she is doing is the liberal tactic so piss off MCcain’s and join the Dem party
those third parties are a waste of time and energy and splitting to third parties is just a tool for the left.
Let Meghan MccAin and Mr. Steele go off and form a RINO party.
CONSERVATIVES CAN CONTROL THE LOCAL GOP.
Control the Local Republican Party, Control the NATIONAL Republican Party.
Meghan McCain argues you can’t be pro life UNLESS you support marrige between two people of the same sex engaging in recreational sex that has no possibility of producing a human life.
is she serious? or just seriously stupid?
correct
I love my kids, my wife and my dog, I love some friends too
I only want sex with my wife, my young wife I might add as I am not old either(so it is not young people who support it as there is not 10% of the population)
should marry my dog, my daughter, my son I love them
no it is all about sex to these queers.
love has nothing to do with it and to think his idiot hasn’t even been a republican for a year and she has the audacity to tell us to change in the party
last I checked bringing up the homo issue is a win win for us .
Let us remind what is marriage to the public, let us remind the public which groups has the highest child molesting figures, or let us remind the public that the biggest group for serial killers is homos
let us remind the public what they do to each other an dhow they act
take a camera to their freak parades and see their sign s, see their antics etc
she wants to talk about homosexuality then so be it as the majority are against it and the homos do not want us to talk about it either
I swear I wish this woman would just shut the hell up or someone could actually question her on the facts of homosexuality and their agenda
as if right now it is the liberal media propping her up and all because she is going against the base and she doesn’t even see it the brainless media whoring dumb arse little young girl
she hasn’t been a republican for a year yet.
she hasn’t done a proper job in her life
she cries about not getting a boyfriend
who the hell does she think she is to dictate to us what we should change and have to accept.
she may be enjoying the attention form the liberal media but they will get bored of her like they did with cindy sheehan, but both are just too thick and dumb to realise that they will and have been thrown away
More gays. More abortionists. More pedaphiles while we’re at it. Let’s build that big tent GOP RINO’s long for and just pack up, go home, and sit by our TV’s drinking beer. Or something stronger. In this case, something stronger comes to mind.
LOL
geraldo
I have sent mail into fox asking why do they think we should be interested in listening to that buff on geraldo
never get an answer and if anyone is interested in what he has to say could you let me know as I have not found one person yet who even likes him let alone wants to listen to him
We need more REAL Republicans. We do not need more RINOs. If some of them are closeted perverts, I don’t need to know about it. I don’t ask; I hope they won’t tell!
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