Posted on 09/06/2010 9:57:15 AM PDT by LonelyCon
Just two years ago, supporting homosexual marriage was such an extreme, politically radioactive position that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton – both Alinskyite progressives and long-time gay-rights supporters – saw fit to publicly and repeatedly declare their opposition to same-sex marriage.
Today, as the homosexual newspaper the Washington Blade puts it, "conservatives have taken the leadership role in achieving marriage equality."
That's right. Not only have high-profile conservatives like Glenn Beck, "The View's" Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and many others publicly offered their ringing endorsement of men marrying men and women marrying women, but some on the right are, as the Blade reports, actually leading the charge.
Case in point: George W. Bush's solicitor general Ted Olson has been dedicating his time as one of the two lead attorneys who successfully challenged California's Proposition 8, which had enshrined in the state's constitution the fact that, as Hillary Clinton put it, "marriage is as a marriage always has been, between a man and a woman."
Indeed, proclaims the Blade, when it comes to the battle to legalize same-sex marriage, it is conservatives who "have achieved the most important success so far as they are the most willing and most able to take the case to the Supreme Court."
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And S.E. Cupp, a young conservative Daily Caller columnist and frequent Fox pundit, goes so far as to say, "Conservatism and gay rights are actually natural allies. Conservatism rightly seeks to keep the government out of our private lives, and when you strip away the politics of pop culture, it's this assertion of privacy and freedom that the gay rights movement is essentially making."
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“Many good conservative people have been banned or left because if they disagreed with any one point, they were called pro-agenda, anti-FR, and worse.”
Yes, I’m most curious about which poster this one was.
***BUMP***!!
Well said FRiend, and absolutely true and correct.
My uncle used to post here and he warned me that people like you had taken over and so I stay of of these threads. By your calling on others to help you I see that you are also a coward.
If you think I'm a troll read my comments and take a deep breath.
So who were you?
You are a LYING TROLL.
Here is what your FR homepage says:
From a web search got Arizona immigration bill stories here. Liked what I saw and signed up.
This indicates that you had NO KNOWLEDGE of FR prior to the Arizona immigration law a few months ago.
whence911
Since Apr 27, 2010
There was such a time?
And how does this newb know this?
Don't tell me, he lurked for YEARS before deciding to take the plunge and sign up.
Yeah,......
right......
IBTZ
This noob knows an awful lot about FR’s past.
I wonder how......
IBTZ
Statement by the founder of Free Republic March 22, 2004
I posted the following statement to our front page in response to the criticism I'm receiving lately as to not being fair and balanced and perceived mistreatment of trolls and assorted malcontents. Got news for all, I'm NOT fair and balanced. I'm biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom and against liberalism, socialism, anarchism, wackoism, global balonyism and any other form of tyranny. Hope this helps.
Oh, what was your name then.
My uncle used to post here and he warned me that people like you had taken over and so I stay of of these threads.
What was this troll's name?
If you think I'm a troll read my comments and take a deep breath.
Yep, I'll probably be smelling ozone soon.
When I signed up, my uncle warned me not to do it and explained what he went through speaking up for freedom. But I like the sight, except for you.
First you were here before, next it was your uncle?
Make up your mind please.
I am talking about MY posts since I signed up. You sure are hungry for a fight. You agreed with me before on other threads and now I’m a LYING TROLL> What’s your problem?
Destruction of America's Judeo-Christian culture IS NOT freedom.
From a web search got Arizona immigration bill stories here. Liked what I saw and signed up.
More as I learn the ropes. I chose my name to say that we are forgettintg the lessons of 9/11 and are in danger of being too slack with the fanatics because the president wants to hold hands.
Immigration bill controversy has just been within the last few months
From this post:
There was a time on the FR when such a thread would bring out argument and ongoing debate. No more. It's just a cue for everyone to come out and agree.
A few years ago, some posters took over the argument and ran everyone who disgreed with them off the threads and the site. Then the owner came out and agreed with them with his declaration against "homosexualism." Many good conservative people have been banned or left because if they disagreed with any one point, they were called pro-agenda, anti-FR, and worse. We lost a lot of discussion when that happened. But that's the way it is September 6, 2010..............
Perhaps the noob could explain how he's so familiar with FR's history when he claims he just found the website do to a recent controversy.
Oops, you slipped.....
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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You are lying.....
I have read all of that. I did not take a position. I am aware that if tou disageree with the owner you will be booted. I stated what had happened to this issue here before. You vets can run me out of here if you like. If that’s all it takes than so be it.
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