Posted on 05/02/2014 2:42:11 PM PDT by Flame Retardant
A great debate is going on within the Republican Party over how to handle one of the most sensitive social issues of modern times: the definition of marriage.
Supporters of same-sex marriage point to signs that the party is gradually changing its tune on the issue, as it seeks to grow its appeal among younger voters and project a more inclusive image.
While defense of traditional marriage has long been a defining issue for GOP social conservatives, a recent Pew poll found that 61 percent of Republicans under age 30 favor the right to same-sex marriage.
Earlier this month, the Nevada Republican Party removed opposition to gay marriage from its platform.“The movement in favor [of same-sex marriage rights] is moving much faster than many would have predicted in the Republican Party, but it's still a very difficult issue,” says Republican strategist Ford O'Connell....On April 19, most of the Illinois Republican officials who had acted to remove the state party chairman over his support of same-sex marriage lost their party positions.
On April 29, the Washington College Republican Federation announced it had passed a resolution calling for a change to both the state and federal Republican platforms' stance on marriage to make them more "inclusive."
In January, the New Mexico College Republicans agreed to drop language opposing same-sex marriage from their platform.
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What indication is there that the GOP is against gay marriage?
Tiptoeing?
They’ve been trying to force RNC committeeman Dave Agema to resign for the past 18 months for reminding people that support for traditional marriage is in the platform.
The tyranny of a very vocal and militant minority.
What happens when the tyranny of the gay fascists meets up with the tyranny of the Islamic fascists?
The Islamics are much more disciplined and better armed than the gays. And they already have a built-in bias against sharing power with gays.
Or anybody.
They’ll fold on this as they have with abortion; pay it lip service, but the abortuaries are running at full steam. The Republican party believes that social conservatives have nowhere else to go, even though 2012 showed they have the option of just staying home...Because the two parties are simply heads of the same hydra, that is acceptable to Republicans.
The Republicans can go to Hell. I’m a conservative.
WE have lost the gay marriage fight. I really think we should move on. I care more about our fiscal house and the ever oppressive government and land theft. The left WANTS us to keep talking about gays and about birth control because they are losing arguments and then they go and do what they are doing, which is taking over everything in their path. We cannot control the culture and the left has done a fine job of making gay marriage palpable for a large part of the Country. It is not the hill I think we want to die on. That is my opinion.
What hill do you want to die on?
You felt that way long before the marriage fight was lost.
The GOP is THE party of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE,
coverups, endless taxes, endless spending,
polygamy and gay marriage (the RomneyAgenda).
The GOP means GIVE.OBAMA.POWER.
The GOP-e speaks...
This IS a hill I will die on. If I am wrong so be it. But it will be the death of this country in my eyes, because there will be no end and no stopping the decline into the gutter - a decline that could only be corrected with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Welcome to freerepublic, too bad about your political leanings.
Fag marriage has been imposed largely by blackrobes, not statutorily by legislatures. The rants about hills to die on at this thread confuse cause and effect.
The rise of fag marriage acceptance is due to the rise of lawmaking by unelected judges. Until judges once again have to look over their shoulders at a senate of the states, a senate that implements the 10th Amendment, the blackrobed tyrants will continue to legislate our once republic to utopian hell.
Are you promoting the idea that the GOP should become “gay friendly”?
No. I guess I needed a sarcasm tag. I just meant that it is rich that Hollywood, which is so taken by money, and flamboyant living, etc., is now being dissed by the Sultan of Brunei’s policies.
Sorry. I replied to the wrong thread. Ignore my comment.
Just wait till the next election in France. You are going to see the beginning of a transformation. This issue doesn’t just go one way and homosexuals are making a big mistake with their arrogance of behaving like they have won a battle that hasn’t been truly fought. India has reversed course on Gay marriage and we will see the same happen in Europe as conservative immigrant populations assert themselves. France is going to really have a major political upheaval in the next election as I expect we are due for one here though the status quo party machines are fighting it tooth and nail. Most of the world still does not embrace the silly concept of “gay rights” as if butt-banging is a right.
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