Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 04/17/2009 4:51:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
McCain Strategist Warns GOP Risks Becoming 'Religious Party'
Steve Schmidt urges Republicans to begin voicing more support for civil unions and gay rights.
FOXNews.com Friday, April 17, 2009
Steve Schmidt, former top adviser to John McCain during the presidential campaign, is urging Republicans to shift their views on gay marriage. (AP Photo)
John McCain's top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the "religious party" with its opposition to same-sex marriage.
Steve Schmidt, in his first political appearance since the election, spoke at the Washington, D.C., convention for the Log Cabin Republicans -- a grassroots group for gay and lesbian Republicans.
He urged Republicans, in the near-term, to endorse civil unions and stop using the Bible as rationale for gay-marriage opposition.
"If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party," he said. "And in a free country a political party cannot be viable in the long-term if it is seen as a sectarian party."
Schmidt, whose sister is a lesbian and who supports same-sex marriage, said he understands the Republican Party probably won't reverse its resistance to same-sex marriage anytime soon.
But he suggested that the party will be increasingly marginalized if it sustains that opposition long-term.
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mccain strategist, would that be an oxy-moron?
When losers offer advice, ...
Does anyone care what McCain says about anything? He lost, his strategy was a disaster.
Beat me to it!!!
That explains a whole lot about McCain's tepid showing. By rights he should have cleaned the Zero's clock.
Since most Americans identify themselves as Christians, why would that be a problem?
Steve Schmidt already voiced his support for gay marriage. No surprise the McCain staff was bent on backstabbing Palin. She was a threat to some of the moles’ evil, leftist agenda.
God I hope so. The moral values of the politicians who claim to represent us are leaning way more towards non religious!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Schmidt caught the wishy-washy virus from his boss.
Obama said he was against gay marriage. Obama is sitting in the White House.
Or just a plain ole moron
Instead of giving Republicans advice, Steve Schmidt needs to join the Democratic Party.
Please Arizona citizens...vote this guy out of office!!! Don’t be like South Carolina citizens who voted for that reject Linday Graham...supposedly not to many conservatives down in that state. /sarc.
The irony for McCain is that a more G-d-fearing Republican Party would attract more Hispanic votes, as many of them are Catholics and Evangelicals who are against homosexual mock-marriages and abortion.
Obama is sitting in the White with our check books
There are many colorful metaphors I’d like to call Schmidt that are against my religion
LLS
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