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RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to GOP: Don’t go ‘Old Testament’ on gays
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 03/27/2013 10:45:06 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued some words of advice for fellow GOPers: Get in the 21st century with same-sex-marriage issues.

“We do have a platform, and we adhere to that platform,” Mr. Priebus said in a USA Today video. “But it doesn’t mean that we divide and subtract people from our party” who favor gay marriage.

“I don’t believe we need to act like Old Testament heretics,” he said in the USA Today video. Rather, Republicans “have to strike a balance between principle and grace and respect.”

His statements come as the U.S. Supreme Court is due to hear two cases on gay marriage — one on a California-voted ban on same-sex marriage, and the other on the legalities of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans the federal government from giving marriage benefits to same-sex couples.

His statements also come at a time when politicians from both sides of the political aisle are renouncing their past objections to gay marriage. On the Republican side, Sen. Rob Portman – an Ohio conservative with traditional values — just flipped on gay marriage, in part, he said, because of the recent revelations of homosexuality by one of his sons.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; priebus; priebus4romney; priebus4romneyagenda; reincepriebus; rino; romney; romney4polygamy; romneyagenda; romneymarriage
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To: ardara

202-863-8500

let him know as we have just done.

the GOP let in liberals, liberaltarians in to spout their communist agenda like homo marriage and now they tell us to change to suit them , like hell


201 posted on 03/28/2013 12:05:20 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SoConPubbie

This is not a party I can support


202 posted on 03/28/2013 12:07:07 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Can we stick this number up Jim

202-863-8500 and all of us tell the RNC to either adopt conservative stances or they can go to hell.

Sarah Col West and others either lead the party or they make a new party just for conservatives.

Letting in liberaltariansand others only to spout their agenda was he down fall.

Again Jim can we have a call to let them now by phone and mail where conservatives stand on here.


203 posted on 03/28/2013 12:07:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: murrie

this is an attack on religious freedom and if this goes ahead then churches and adoption agencies will be sued.

Well I;ve had it

I could nto careless if we lived in 2150


204 posted on 03/28/2013 12:10:20 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

You don’t have to ask me to call. Each election in recent history has been more critical than the last in terms of continuing freedom in America and we’re now getting mighty desperate. If the Republicans (GOP-e RINOs) blow another one, it may very well be their last shot at it.


205 posted on 03/28/2013 12:16:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Great quotes and oh so fitting.


206 posted on 03/28/2013 12:35:54 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: manc

Good, but personally I’m not going third party if it simply means electing another radical Dem.


207 posted on 03/28/2013 12:44:46 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: TigersEye

No problem.


208 posted on 03/28/2013 1:06:27 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: donna
Maybe you and others deliberately misinterpret what he's saying by following the the WA Times editorialized headline?

The Media would never try to sow seeds of discord among the GOP and its natural allies. /s

209 posted on 03/28/2013 1:12:01 PM PDT by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: SoConPubbie

Now the GOP says we can’t talk about the Bible. Good grief!


210 posted on 03/28/2013 1:12:43 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Reince is a “ special kind of stupid “


211 posted on 03/28/2013 1:19:22 PM PDT by saturn
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To: Blue Highway

You mean Prance Reibus?


212 posted on 03/28/2013 1:30:51 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: darrellmaurina

“If I’m going to get into the exegesis of biblical texts at the level of the original languages and how individual words are to be interpreted...”

If you’re going to teach people about the meanings of words in the Bible, especially that of sodomy, shouldn’t you know what the words mean? Especially if they may be speaking directly to you?

Again, the traditional definition of sodemy includes any unnatural sex act including anal and oral sex. This includes the modern Hebrew definition:

sod·om·y [sod-uh-mee]
noun
1. anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
2. copulation with a member of the same sex.
3. bestiality

Anyone having oral sex is a sodomite every bit as sinful as the homosexuals.

Sure, it may be bothersome to us that other “unnatural” acts are condemned under the heading of sodomy, but you cannot dismiss or blather your way out of the fact that the bible may also be referring to you or me or others on this site who refer derisively to “sodomites”.

This doesn’t make it right, nor am I defending gay marrage or homosexuality, but rather trying lend perspective and maybe help the overly self-righteous among us reflect a little bit on the sinful state of man.


213 posted on 03/28/2013 1:32:34 PM PDT by Owl558 (Think twice before speaking once)
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To: BigEdLB
Looks like 'Reince' is 'evolving' too.

Thats just FABULOUS. YAY for the "Reince Revolution"


214 posted on 03/28/2013 1:34:25 PM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Mr. K

YES.... Fabulous, indeed, LOL


215 posted on 03/28/2013 1:35:29 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: vmivol00

bump


216 posted on 03/28/2013 1:42:11 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Secret Agent Man

But, indeed, it might send them all to hell.


217 posted on 03/28/2013 1:44:14 PM PDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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To: Secret Agent Man

That stood out to me too. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


218 posted on 03/28/2013 1:57:47 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yep, once they’ve normalized fudge packing, they’ll move on to something else. The GOP, if it exists, will have to cave to that.


219 posted on 03/28/2013 1:59:40 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: SoConPubbie

The two central reasons GOP-e turned on conservatives is the butt action agenda and open borders.


220 posted on 03/28/2013 1:59:52 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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