Posted on 12/11/2012 9:48:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Conservative firebrand Glenn Beck has joined a growing chorus of Republican commentators in defending gay marriage, laying out a strong case for ending government opposition to letting same-sex couples wed.
"Let me take the pro-gay marriage people and the religious people — I believe that there is a connecting dot there that nobody is looking at, and that's the Constitution," Beck said during a recent segment of his online talk show. "The question is not whether gay people should be married or not. The question is why is the government involved in our marriage?"
While Beck's defense of gay marriage may seem surprising, given his far-right political views and audience, it is actually not new. Earlier this year, Beck said that he has the "same opinion on gay marriage as President Barack Obama" and does not see same-sex unions as a "threat to America."
Still, Beck's public renewal of his support for gay marriage comes at a politically significant moment for the GOP, which is working to reshape its message to appeal to a changing electorate. A Gallup survey released last week found that 53 percent of Americans are in favor of legalizing gay marriage, a number that has been steadily growing for the past decade.
Moreover, by couching his support for gay marriage in a libertarian framework, Beck makes the case for the right to look past differences on social issues in order to broaden their coalition to include all limited government conservatives.
"What we need to do, I think, as people who believe in the Constitution, is to start looking for allies who believe in the Constitution and expand our own horizon," Beck said. "We would have the ultimate big tent."
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No worries eh, I cast myself out the day after the republicans nominated the Masshole, and I will not be back to your party of cowards.
Good luck with future elections......
Amen.
The irony of it all...people want the government to “give” them a “right” and that is where they screw up. As long as the government can give a right it can take it away and they eventually always do.
I've seen your replies on the mary jane legalization threads and yea, in reality there's but a hair's breadth of difference between "conservatives" like you and democrats.
It is amzaing as people who are promoting this gave us no default divorce, aboriotn and every other sexual libertine idea. No what result of all this “Progress” is? More government! All they have done is destroy family which means more government is needed and government to enforce these ideas. The size has grown with liberalization of our sexual mores.
Methinks I’ll head on down to the DMV and demand a license plate for my coffee cup.
Then I’ll head over to the airport and demand air traffic control clear me to jog down the runway flapping my arms and shouting “zoom zoom! I’m an airplane!”
Perhaps you can tell us of this planet YOU live on, where apparently YOU can simply leave elections to US because YOU live immune to the results. Where is this wonderful planet you live on, where you can luxuriate in the purity of your own irrelevance?
In the end, it’s all just blather. You support using the fed gov in a highly progressive manner.
LOL, that says a lot, all I asked was if you agree with Beck, I think that you said yes, you do want to diminish the importance issue of marriage in the republican party.
Glen,
The culture will change for the worse when you endorse the unnatural. By doing so, you promote humanity being its own god. This gravely endangers our children and grandchildren.
You’re just wrong.
No, what it means is that I am intelligent enough to understand that this issue is not a two sided issue - and you are not. There is Federal government, and state government, and so on.
It also shows that I knew exactly where you were coming from, while you thought you knew where I was coming from, but were proven wrong. You and I agree on the morality, we disagree on how to win the war. You are so phariseeical and shallow that your brain cannot contemplate that.
That’s nice, I can pretend to ignore people’s marriages also, but it doesn’t mean anything, they are still married.
Unlike you I don’t support ending marriage in America by making it mean anything, and nothing, by having no definition at all.
They will have to kill me to get me to change my mind.
I only think one thing about you.
Keep your Faith. Do not put your faith in the institutions of mere humans. You will be disappointed every time.
See #149
It is right to quarantine the dangerous.
"Gay": a term that is a euphemism for homosexual. "Marriage": unless redefined, assumes that the partners participating in this union or sacrament are not members of the same sex. "Gay marriage" does not compute (GIGO).
The point is that if we switch to letting any religion, which would mean ALL religions and cults, and atheist identity groups define marriage, then there would be no definition, therefore no marriage in our society at large.
Yet we all know that there has to be a body of law regarding marriage and divorce/children/property, so there we are again, a common law (or authority) defining marriage.
Modern America is a different place from the past, libertarians and liberals and immigration has destroyed our common roots and community, but we still need common laws that apply to us and protect us and our families, and as we travel from state to state.
We have an old saying out here in farm Country:
“A cat can give birth to kittens, in an empty oven, but that don’t make ‘em biscuits.”
The Bible defined marriage for me, apparently the govt defined it for you. Good luck with that.
Huh?
I don’t know what you were saying.
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