Posted on 10/10/2006 7:34:47 AM PDT by ZGuy
Endorse "good" gays like Jim Kolbe and Mark Foley and what do you get? One calling for gay marriage and one resigning in disgrace.
Those people are cancers in the GOP and end up doing far, far more harm than good.
I know of numerous people, with numerous kinds of obsessions, mental troubles, and ultimately harmful moral failings, whom I would stake my life on, if necessary. And we all have rights, but that doesn't make wrong right.
'Nuff said about that. The point is, if anyone fails to vote or wastes their vote on some third party spoiler (excepting Lieberman) and the result is the loss of the Republican House majority, our President will likely be impeached.
Whether the Pelosi mob would want to embarrass themselves in that way or just in others, it would be a harmful step backward. Every law, every judicial appointment, etc. matters.
There is an extensive network of gay Republican high level staff members, something that, as the article points out, has received very, very little attention before now.
There is very, very little known publicly about what these people are or are not pushing or influencing. Just because something isn't proven doesn't make it untrue.
Clearly it's a danger that we may have a group of Log Cabin subversives trying to 'turn' the GOP from within.
I did not "vote" for Foley or Kolbe.
But, you go ahead and leave the GOP over the issue. It will survive and you will have lost the best political home you have ever had.
Square pegs in round holes provide some questions to be raised even for simple conclusions.
To compare sex deviates to socially adjusted "normal" folks is ludicrous....irrational justification for queers that common sense cannot accept does not make one a "bigot", but rather a realist.
...and 2,000,000 conservative Christians.
Don't these folks realize how split the country is. We are practically 50-50.
And we cannot afford to piss off the mainstream of the party -- and, if you look at the marriage referendums, the mainstream of the voting public -- by playing footsie with gay rights activists.
It's ironic that that's exactly what they said about Foley.
He abused our trust! The Mark Foley I knew was upstanding etc etc, this is a Mark Foley I never knew ....
Well, what do you think? Is God behind Al Qaeda?
Wuli, stop making a fool of yourself. Go quote where I said I was leaving the GOP, or shut up.
Don't be such a troll.
Was God behind Nebuchadnezzar?
That's the theoretical parallel being drawn.
"There is an extensive network of gay Republican high level staff members, something that, as the article points out, has received very, very little attention before now."
No. The article does not identify any "extensive network of gay Republican high level staff members". It says there gays who "have held crucial staff positions for decades" [how many???, who decides what is a "crucial" position and who is a "crucial" member of Congress?? The New York Slimes??]
The line "influential role homosexuals have within the Republican party" is an editorial line written by the writers, and yet not substantiated by any evidence they produce, particularly when the intent of that line wants to imply that the "influential role" relates to a homosexual agenda.
The authors might have considered the source for their perception - "news" reports from The New York Times.
When the New York Slimes says: "They have played decisive roles in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers," does the Times tell us, or does Agape even ask: "what legislation", "whose campaigns", "whose careers".
Does the Slimes tell us or does Agape ask the Slimes to demonstrate just where do we see GOP advance of "legislation", "campaigns" and "careers" that, demonstrate advancement of an agenda by said homosexuals. No.
The Times inserts an innuendo and then does nothing to back up where we can see evidence of it, and Agape simply takes The New York Times line, intended to slime the GOP and goes with it; as if The New York Times editorial opinion can be taken at face value.
The New York Slimes has been an apendage of the political left for many decades. The open and stated intent of the founders of CREW and Mike Rogers, the people behind "outing" Foley at this time, is an 11th hour political act to get social conservatives to leave the GOP this November, so that the Dims and the left would get Congressional Majorities.
Agape Press and you want to be their patsies. Go ahead.
And we cannot afford to piss off the mainstream of the party -- and, if you look at the marriage referendums, the mainstream of the voting public -- by playing footsie with gay rights activists.
I 100 percent agree with you that we should NOT cater to the gay right activists, but not kick them either. Well the activists yes. The Log Cabin Republicans who seem reasonable due to them being fiscal Republicans No.
Dem Homos = OK
actually only 19 percent of registered voters are "core democrat voters" while 35% or so are core republicans.
The balance is the "mushy middle" but they are the security moms and the angry men who don't vote for homsoexuals and don't vote for increasing taxes.
If you want an accurate picture look at the actuall passage rates of the marriage amendments.
Off topic but I must contest your tag line.....no way are my St.Louis Cardinals losing....LOL!!!!! All in good fun, I can't wait for the games.
Neither can I. I am happy, btw, that I will not have to lose my lunch like I did in the 80s, being treated to the ugly mugs of such players as Vince Coleman and Willie McGee.
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