Posted on 02/13/2012 5:41:39 PM PST by writer33
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says Washington state's new gay marriage law is not the final word in the debate.
Santorum said Monday that he is encouraging opponents of same-sex marriage to continue to fight. He held a private meeting in Olympia with a group of gay marriage opponents who are now exploring a referendum to block the new law.
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For those interested.
Good move by Santorum. Be interesting to see if Newt of mittens speaks up.
If Santorum becomes the next POTUS, I’d love to be part of the administration to inform all that science still doesn’t support the born-that-way theory. Part of his administration or not, I’ll debate anybody on live, unedited television on the science of same-sex attraction.
We are going to have the best principled President in decades. Getting rid of gay marriage and all the nonsense that comes with it.....hopefully getting rid of that gays in the military law....getting rid of abortion through constitutional amendment. I can’t believe just on those three items that we don’t have 100 percent support at least on this site.
The left NEVER gives up. We need to be as tenacious.
By the way, I don’t care if gays do whatever they want to with each other, including having a big party to dedicate their love to each other for the rest of their lives. They can open joint accounts, give each other powers of attorney, etc. and I wish them well.
Where I draw the line is trying to force the rest of society into the LEGAL OBLIGATIONS that flow from the institution of marriage, including but not limited to employer health insurance.
God bless Santorum for speaking out fearlessly on an issue that`s treated by so many politicians as a “third rail.” Might as well fight it..it`s not like WA will vote GOP anyway.
The people of my state votes 60/40 against it. Seems to me that that is the end of it but I’m sure its not.
I hope they discover a muted gay gene because when they do, the godless will join the rest of us and end abortion.. for different reasons but an end at least
Perfect timing! this will draw more people out to the Mar 3 Caucus, the last contest prior to Super Tuesday.
That's what California thought.
Rick has been consistent in this both today, yesterday, and every day. He has been consistent when it was popular to be so and when it has been unpopular. He has been a voice of encouragement, often a lonely voice in Washington, for decades. He has taken the arrows for it—he can’t even google his own name in front of his children—but he has been consistent. He could have taken the easy road. He took the hard road. There is no one in politics today that the radical homosexual community hates more than Rick Santorum. Mitt has positions. Rick has convictions. Rick has stood his ground and paid the price. It has been a great honor for me to be able to say that I support him for President.
Of your list, the only thing Santorum MIGHT be able to accomplish is ending the policy of allowing gays in the military - and quite frankly, I doubt he could even do that. He might try, and that would turn into a long drawn out court battle. A worthwhile battle indeed, but one we may lose.
The other issues would require constitutional amendments which don't even have the votes (2/3rds) to pass the House and Senate. If they could get out of the House and Senate, the ban on abortion would never pass the states. The ban on gay marriage might, but again, it wouldn't get out of the House and Senate in the first place.
What Santorum could and would do better than any other candidate in the race is nominate excellent, truly conservative judges. If he got enough on the bench (and at least 1 to replace Ginsberg) we might at least have a shot at overturning Roe in the future. That doesn't end abortion though, and once it went to the state level most would continue to allow it.
I can’t believe just on those three items that we don’t have 100 percent support at least on this site.
Because he can't actually do the things you claim he can. Further, many people don't think Santorum has even the slightest chance to beat Obama. If we nominate Santorum, we are going to be running on social issues in a campaign that just screams to be about how badly Hussein has mishandled the economy. Santorum is a social issue champion, but if we are talking about whether birth control is a good or bad thing for women through this campaign (not just whether the gov't should pay for it), we are going to lose and lose badly. Most women like their birth control, and they aren't going to vote for someone who comes across as a stick in the mud wanting to lecture them on his believe that birth control is bad. We are voting for a President, not a priest.
Libertarians don't see it as a problem, which is why Goldwater is just a memory of things that might have been.
I bet it’s been an honor. Likewise.
Has Mr. Santorum held a private meeting with groups who oppose Obama's "budget" designed to turn America into Greece?
Or is this not important?
“Or is this not important? “
It is..but....an open sewer is still an open sewer, even if it has a perfectly balanced budget.
Right. It's just not a good match for the times.
The GOP nomination situation sure is a muddled mess. Santorum is definitely not my first choice, but if things stay this way, then a brokered convention would be quite the spectacle, and who knows what might happen!
I dunno. It may be that any GOP candidate could mop the floor with 0bama this election cycle. Maybe the discontent really runs as deep as we all seem to think it is...
>> Libertarians don’t see it as a problem
The problem as I see it is giving govt the power to prosecute those whom refuse to support certain forms of ‘marriage’. That’s the govt enforcing its religion on the citizens.
I don’t need no damn govt to validate the sacrament of marriage.
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