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Retired naval officer calls for gay marriage in GOP platform
Wisconsin Gazette.com ^
| Aug 9 2012
| Wig
Posted on 08/09/2012 2:17:35 PM PDT by scottjewell
A retired Navy captain is asking Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to support adding marriage equality to the GOP platform. McDonnell chairs the committee that will propose a platform at the national convention in Tampa later this month.
Retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, in a letter to McDonnell, said the freedom to marry is in keeping with the partys ideology.
If given the opportunity, we will testify in support of the inclusion in the Republican platform of both the repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and the right of same-gender couples to marry and for those marriages to be recognized by our federal government, Darrah wrote.
Quite simply, these objectives correspond with the ideals of the Republican Party opposition to government intrusion in peoples lives and a modern military that supports all service members and their families.
(Excerpt) Read more at wisconsingazette.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012rncconvention; 2012rncplatform; doma; homosexualagenda; mcdonnell; navy
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Ugh :-(
To: scottjewell
... and the Mittens-ization of the party proceeds apace.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:19:16 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
To: scottjewell
And that will be the death of the GOP.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:20:12 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: scottjewell
This clown doesn’t have a full seabag.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:20:41 PM PDT
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
To: scottjewell
Clearly a Democrat-Obama plant who wants to knock the social conservatives completely out of the election.
Particularly now that so many African-American clergy are speaking out against Obama because of his ‘evolution’ towards ‘gay marriage.’
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:21:46 PM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Maybe the thought of a gay marriage plank at the Tampa RNC will awaken Mitzi and make him go anti-gay marriage?
To: scottjewell
Remove him from the committee. Period.
To: scottjewell
Retired naval officer calls for gay marriage in GOP platformIt would be political suicide.
To: Jim Robinson; cripplecreek
Cue the Funeral Music!
It's already here.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:23:51 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(No more Grand Old Progressives! Vote Conservative-Libertarian-Tea Party!)
To: scottjewell
Retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, in a letter to McDonnell, said the freedom to marry is in keeping with the partys ideology. Methinks perhaps Joan was retired from the Navy on a section 8.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:25:10 PM PDT
by
upchuck
("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Log Cabin Republicans announced yesterday that they are part of the process on the platform this time as well.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:26:14 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
("As the light begins to fade in the city on the hill")
To: scottjewell
He’s just mad “Don’t ask, don’t tell” outlasted him.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:27:11 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: scottjewell
Another one irked at the failure of the Chick-Fil-A “kiss-in”?
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:27:11 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: scottjewell
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:27:40 PM PDT
by
VMI70
To: scottjewell
Clueless O turd.
This man is no shipmate of mine.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:28:14 PM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party of NO! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
To: upchuck
Methinks perhaps Joan was retired from the Navy on a section 8. Or a Section Q
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:28:40 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Word Is Out,Harry Reid's Into Child Porn.Release All Your Photos,Harry!)
To: DuncanWaring
Make that She/her.
Misread “Joan” as “John”.
Most inconvenient.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:28:42 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: scottjewell
A "she" retired Navy Captain, and people wondered why people like me didn't want women serving on ships or subs.
She is demanding gay marriage.
Let her go somewhere else (Saudia Arabia, perhaps) to peddle her pro-sodomy ideology.
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:30:34 PM PDT
by
zerosix
(native sunflower)
To: upchuck
"Did somebody say Section 8?"
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:31:44 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
08/09/2012 2:33:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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