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Posted on 09/03/2010 10:22:09 AM PDT by BitterKlingon
Former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt tells Sam Stein of the Huffington Post why gay marriage is now a conservative cause:
"There is a strong conservative case to be made in favor of gay marriage," former McCain campaign manager and fellow same-sex marriage fundraiser Steve Schmidt told the Huffington Post on Tuesday. "Marriage is an institution that strengthens and stabilizes society. It is an institution that has the capacity to bring profound joy and happiness to people and it is a matter of equality and keeping faith of one of the charters of the nation, the right to live your life.
"More and more conservatives are saying that opposition to gay marriage would not be a litmus test for membership in the GOP," Schmidt added. "And more conservatives are making the case that no more do you want big government conservatives in the bedroom than big government liberals telling you how to live your life."
To be sure, the Mehlman fundraiser is not entirely a Republican-driven affair. Some of the big names on the ticket are Democrats, including former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
But reading through the list of attendees, it's remarkable to see how many prominent conservatives are not just comfortable associating with the gay-rights cause but are eager to fundraise for it. Pair that with rumblings from elsewhere in the party (most notably from Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels) that conservatives should have a "truce" on social issues for the time being and the frictions within the GOP tent become even more apparent.
If anything, the hostility between the social conservative element of the party and those less adherent to that doctrine is already palpable. As one prominent Republican who supports gay rights put it:
"I think there is a growing mass of people in Republican politics who are fundamentally sick and tired about being lectured to about morality and how to live your life by a bunch of people who have been married three or four times and are more likely to be seen outside a brothel on a Thursday night than being at home with their kids... There is a fundamental indecency to the vitriol and the hatred directed against decent people because of their sexuality. People have reached a critical mass with this."
FR is a conservative site. We do not appreciate our members fighting against us on our conservative values and issues. If you wish to support homosexual marriage or homosexuals in the military or hate crimes against us for speaking out against government promotion of homosexuality that’s your business, but you’d better do it somewhere else and not on FR. If you value your posting privileges, that is. FR is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-military, pro-traditional American conservatism and it is a privilege to post here. Those who support the godless liberal/Marxist destruction of our free society and our country are free to exercise their free speech rights elsewhere. I won’t stand in your way.
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Listen Frumtard, er, Zort was it?
The butt bandit agenda is not wlecome here.
Go away.
I’ll set aside for a moment that Steve Schmidt’s head looks like something Mark Morford would buy along with a gallon pump jug of lube at Good Vibrations. Leaving that aside, I’m amused at the notion of getting lectured on how to win popular election by a guy who ran the presidential campaign of John McCain, a three-plus-term senator, two-term congressman, Vietnam vet, combat naval aviator and POW, and Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and one of, if not the most, promising new politicians on the right, against senators Barack Obama, who although apparently a personable enough fellow at the time (who knew?) was barely qualified for vice-president, let alone president, and Joe. Freaking. Biden....and lost. Bullet, you suck. Go away.
:-D
Maybe zort/bitterklingon is fruity Frum himself?
Possibly.
Hadn’t thought of that.
About time you got zotted.
utter crap it is high time for the GOP to get in step with the majority of Americans and stop the homosexual agenda.
Itis also high time for those so called conservative talk show hosts like hannity to show video’s of folsom fair etc.
Stop being PC which the left wants us to be and talk about their sick disgusting agenda
Poor dude. You picked a day FreeRepublic experienced technical difficulties to post this silly thread. You didn’t even get the privilege of an appropriate ZOT.
Journolist: All 107 (Known) Members With Their 'News' Affiliations:
89. Sam Stein - The Huffington Post
There is no doubt in my mind that the recent watershed of GOP is pro homosexual this and pro homosexual that articles are ALL part of a coordinated effort by the leftists...
If one takes a step back -it is easy to realize how AFRAID the left is as evidenced by this recent focused flurry of impotent activity... The leftists become more irrelevant with each passing day. Watching them feebly attempt to subvert truth with propaganda is funny -very funny
The journolisters are exposed and irrelevant...
Booo, Booooo, Bitter Klingon. Go hype homo marriage someplace else. :)
Strike One.
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Yet another by a Journolist Goebbels wannabe trying to get conservatives to give up, hide under the covers and not vote in November, feeling "All is Lost! Woe is me!" And oddly enough, Bitterklinger got the zot. The pro-homosexual agenda/leftst etc trolls are getting zotted daily. If you see them, corner them and goad them into revealing themselves beyond doubt! It's fun, and a mitzvah too!
Huff and Piss (oops.. Huff and WEE WEE)
It does not matter WHO says it, how many times they say it, for what reasons they say it, nor even how many are duped into believing it —
“Gay Marriage” IS NOT “Marriage” because MAN does not DEFINE Marriage. Never has, never will.
AND:
NO ONE who affirms so-called “gay marriage” is a Conservative, no matter what they CLAIM to be. A “Libertarian” perhaps. A Republican maybe. A Democrat and a Liberal is certainly within the realm of probability! But in no way, by NO MEANS, a “Conservative.”
ZOT!
No but when we find out they cheated our support should go away. I don’t care if it is liberal or not, cheating is wrong especially in politicians who we put our trust in with important decisions. Character is important at least to me. That is one area where conservatives don’t care and it is surprising.
Character is important at least to me. That is one area where conservatives don’t care and it is surprising.
Say What?
There are millions of conservatives in the US and you’re claiming that none of them care about character?
You’re painting with an awfully broad brush there.
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