Posted on 08/24/2010 10:06:19 AM PDT by TrueRightWing
When Bill Clinton moved to open the military to gays in 1993, the GOP and conservative Democrats led the effort to oppose gay rights. In 1996, Hawaii flirted with gay marriage and the GOP again led the charge against gay equality, culminating in the federal response known as the "Defense of Marriage Act".
Flash forward fourteen years to the present. Gay marriage is ruled a federal right for the first time and the response from the GOP is… tepid. Not one nationally prominent elected official thought the issue was important enough to get worked up over....
Complicating matters for social conservatives, polls show even a majority of Republican voters support abolishing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"....
The list of conservatives supporting gay equality is growing--from the many Republican appointed judges who have ruled in favor of various gay rights cases, to GOP Solicitor General Ted Olson, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and even the ultraconservative former Vice President Dick Cheney. Nowadays Margaret Hoover of Fox News sits on the board of GOProud alongside conservative Grover Norquist; and even Elisabeth Hasselbeck has come out in support of gay marriage rights...
What is happening to the GOP? First our elected officials tire of bashing gays and now our pundits? Perhaps Republicans are beginning to see the writing on the wall. Public opinion is changing rapidly in favor of gay marriage rights....
The religious right may be having a conniption, but younger Republicans increasingly appear to believe that opposing gay equality is inconsistent with a belief in increased liberty and smaller government. Although the religious right will continue to be a strong presence in the GOP for years to come, changing demographics are not on the side of anti-gay forces and the GOP appears to be awakening to this reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at frumforum.com ...
That's funny you should say that -- I saw this thread earlier and the first thing *I* thought was "Fee Fi Fag Frum."
Cheers!
I don't know, but I never get tired of bashing David Frum.
Start pointing people to pics of the Folsom Street Fair (NSFW, and what's more, overtly disgusting).
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Cheers!
“Also, my wife received the spouse survey and it is poorly written as well. About the only thing one can say on these surveys is that they would not recommend the military to anyone if DADT was repealed.”
Mrs Colonel made me sit down with her to finish the thing last night (she’s pretty distant from the day-to-day military, me bein’ a reservist). She did the same thing, and freestyled the “military service is a privilege, not a right” answer at the end. I love that woman!
Colonel, USAFR
Actually, hadn’t noticed before.
Now that you mention it, yikes.
and even Elisabeth Hasselbeck has come out in support of gay marriage rights...
I live in NYC, and she lives not far from me. She has debated, in the past, Rosie O’Donnell.
Well where Elisabeth resides, her Assemblyman is Daniel O’Donnell, Rosie’s brother, and the leader of the same-sex marriage bill in the New York Assembly. It has passed the Assembly, but NOT the Senate.
I was a party leader for the GOP for many years, so I have tried to contact Hasselbeck, in the hope she might get involved in local GOP politics, perhaps running AGAINST Daniel O’Donnell for Assembly.
I have not yet spoken to her, and who knows if I ever will. But I can tell you this. If she supports gay marriage, she will NEVER have the GOP line for any office, if I have any say.
She is a real cutie, and fun to watch on the View. But, finding this out about her.........very DISAPPOINTING!
Let’s get dangerous!
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