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Once 'inconceivable,' Republican leaders sign pro-gay marriage brief
NBC News ^ | 02/27/2013 | Miranda Leitsinger

Posted on 02/26/2013 2:05:58 PM PST by detective

Supporters of same-sex marriage hope for a boost this week when dozens of high-profile Republicans, many no longer in office, submit their legal argument to the Supreme Court on why gays and lesbians should be allowed to wed, bucking their party's platform in a move that one who had a change of heart on the issue said would “strengthen our nation as a whole.”

More than 80 Republicans have signed the brief to be filed in the case of Proposition 8, a California law banning same-sex marriage, according to the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is waging the legal battle against the law. The nation’s high court will hear arguments in the case in late March.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: homosexuals; republicans

1 posted on 02/26/2013 2:06:07 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

This was posted already, like 6 links down on the main page


2 posted on 02/26/2013 2:07:52 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: detective

Nope. All those votes for gay supporting Mitt didn’t send any message to the GOP at all. Nope. Not a one.


3 posted on 02/26/2013 2:08:33 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: detective

I looked at the article and, as I expected, it’s the usual suspects. Meg Whitman, Christie Whitman, handlers from the McCain and Romney campaigns. What a surprise!


4 posted on 02/26/2013 2:10:04 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: detective

Well, they’d better support polygamy too, pandering hypocrites.


5 posted on 02/26/2013 2:10:48 PM PST by Fido969
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To: detective

When a Republican Governor who campaigned as being more pro-homosexual than Ted Kennedy, and who supported and campaigned on homosexualizing the military and Boy Scouts for at least the last 20 years, and who as Governor gave America ‘gay marriage’, is made the GOP Presidential candidate for 2012,then how is this “inconceivable”?


6 posted on 02/26/2013 2:11:00 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: detective

My goat is looking awfully sexy today.. LOL


7 posted on 02/26/2013 2:12:58 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: detective

Republican Losers


8 posted on 02/26/2013 2:13:58 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (RETURN TO MECCA [http://youtu.be/zWQkaDUCJ_Y])
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To: detective
The feral government should not be in the marriage business.

Marriage should be none of their business.

It would really screw up their marriage-destruction plans if religious people just got married in the Church and dispensed with registering with the government.

9 posted on 02/26/2013 2:15:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: detective

It would really screw up their marriage-destruction plans if religious people just got married in the Church and dispensed with registering with the government.


10 posted on 02/26/2013 2:15:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Freaking sicko.

Now a sheep in heels and fishnets....that’s different!


11 posted on 02/26/2013 2:15:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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Once 'inconceivable,' Republican leaders sign pro-gay marriage brief

One problem with pretending that a gay couple can have a marriage is that they are inconceivable in the sense of incapable of performing the fundamental act that consummates a marriage and forms the center about which a family is formed.

12 posted on 02/26/2013 2:18:49 PM PST by Pollster1
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To: Norm Lenhart

This thread is taking a baa-aa-aad turn...


13 posted on 02/26/2013 2:20:57 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
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To: detective

The inevitable fate of a nation, or a political party, that would claim an equal “right” to do what is wholly unnatural and morally wrong, but that won’t provide equal protection for the supreme right, the right to live, of its most helpless, innocent posterity, is predictable, but not pretty.


14 posted on 02/26/2013 2:23:27 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Defend life, liberty, private property, national sovereignty, security, & borders. Keep the oath.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Sure it’s getting a bit wolly ans posters may end up on the lam, but in Obama’s America, the love between eve and I is a normal, healthy thing....


15 posted on 02/26/2013 2:25:46 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

EWE and I (her name is Eve though...)


16 posted on 02/26/2013 2:28:03 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: detective

GOP now stands for “Gay Old Party.”


17 posted on 02/26/2013 2:29:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Fear not! I was assured feet would be held to the fire so this isn’t really happening. Why just this am 2 posters called me names for suggesting the GOP has caved on several issues lately.


18 posted on 02/26/2013 2:33:28 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: detective

would “strengthen our nation as a whole.”

DUMBASS....
Homosex destroys everything it touches........


19 posted on 02/26/2013 2:35:54 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not all people are religious, Islam is a religion and they are polygamous, Mormonism is a religion, Homosexual religions are religions, anything and everything can be a religion.

I don’t want Sharia law to tell me what marriage is and to dictate divorce law and custody rights, and division of property and assets, or decide who is considered married for the military and federal employees, etc.


20 posted on 02/26/2013 2:42:06 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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