Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters.
WALLACE: You are one of the co-founders of something called the Republican Leadership Council which supports candidates who favor abortion and gay rights.
STEELE: Yes.
(watch video)
WALLACE: Does the GOP needs to do a better job of reaching out to people who hold those views?
STEELE: I think -- I think that's an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Within our party we do have those who have that view as well as outside and my partnership with Christy Todd Whittman was an effort to build a bridge between moderates and conservatives.
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You are right. Too many of us are looking for a political solution to a cultural problem.
Totally agree brother. We have to prioritize right now and win one battle at a time. Too bad others can’t understand this.
Read one of my earlier threads, wherein I note that I do NOT support the government either subsidizing abortion or enforcing the ban thereof. Again, government has no business telling women what to do or what not to do with regards to abortion.
Myopia seems to rule the day. Our history is replete with examples of how righteous zeal has been utilized to further
In the 1860’s, it was the crusade “to make Men free” that fired the imagination. The result was a massive growth in federal power, hundreds of thousands dead, the creation of the income tax, the deployment of worthless fiat money (the so-called greenbacks), the suspension of Habeas Corpus, etc. All of this was enacted to force one section of the country (the “Confederacy”) to submit to the abolitionist prejudices of the North. Whatever else you may think of slavery (a deep evil, in my view), we are still dealing with the consequences of that moral crusade.
Let’s not forget the “White Man’s Burden”, that singular doctrine that led us to war with Spain and the growth of empire. Or the Progressive era, which saw the institution of the permanent income tax, the Federal Reserve, onerous labor laws — all for a “good cause”. Let’s also not forget the “War To End All Wars”, which ushered in the creation of manifold government boards and agencies, coordination of agriculture and industry by federal fiat, and the advent of so-called “War Socialism”. To round out the early 20th century, we have the cause of Prohibition, that teetotaler utopia which nurtured disrespect for the law, government corruption, and the growth of organized crime.
The New Deal, enacted to help the poor and needy (again, a good cause) resulted in all of manner of unconstitutional infringements. Who can forget the “War on Poverty”? Who remembers anymore that you could once pick up your relatives at the airport by walking directly to the gate?
All the things that conservatives now despise were brought to life through some moral crusade. No one in 1862 foresaw the Pandora’s box that would be opened through the laying of an income tax, that their descendants would work for the federal government for almost half the year in an enslavement that would horrify the Founding Fathers. Yet, that tax was created and enforced for a “good cause” (to “make Men free”) and made permanent for another “good cause” (so the rich would “pay their fair share”). No one foresaw the day when the federal government would take upon itself the authority to tell a farmer what to grow, when to grow it, and in what amounts — all under penalty of law.
Beware of what you seek, friends. What may appear today to be a “good” may turn out in the future to be an evil you cannot now foresee. Harnessing the power of government to institute that “good” today may only make that future evil more dastardly and greater in magnitude than anything you can imagine. The Founding Fathers knew whereof they spoke when they warned us to guard our liberties from a government hungry to enslave us.
Oh no. I guess I had no idea.
I absolutely agree - 100% - with what you so eloquently wrote.
My apology for assuming your support of government subsidized abortion. However,this does not negate my other position of the baby having no choice whether it will live or die. It has no choice at all. Its fate is decided and someone else’s twisted view of morality is imposed upon it. Protection of innocent human life is a legitimate function of government. If it isn’t,then it has no legitimate function at all. Then all government free or otherwise is quite pointless. Any government that has no regard for the lives of its most innocent and helpless citizens is a government that has no regard for the lives of the rest of us.
Afraid to admit that we were right about Steele's position on abortion?
You were warned that Steele was not pro-life but you turned a blind eye. You refused to acknowledge that his position is that he wants to keep abortion legal and does not want to have the courts overturn Roe v. Wade.
Well, it turns out that Steele is no more pro-life or pro-family than your typical democrat who claims they are both pro-life and pro-choice.
The only reason people were promoting Steele was because he was black and everyone seemed to overlook his positions on gun control, affirmative action and abortion.
BTW Steele has caused me to finally decide to unregister as a Republican. If this is the best the Republicans can do for a Chairman, one who wants to "reach out" to abortionists and people promoting a radical homosexual agenda, then I can no longer be a Republican.
Steele will not "grow" the Republican party by appeasing abortionists and anti-family groups. He is going to do nothing but undermine the party, which he did today.
I totally agree!
The GOP needs to pick CONSERVATIVE leaders and I don’t care if they are white, black, Hispanic, Oriental, Indian, male, female or whatever else. We need a strong conservative who understands the values of this country and this person will almost certainly need to be an orthodox Christian (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant on non-denominational Evangelical, it really doesn’t matter) or a devout Jew (Eric Cantor is someone to really watch in the future).
NOBODY is discriminating against homosexuals and anyone who believes otherwise is just looking for excuses to blame conservatives. And I will not be associated with any party that does not hold innocent life to be sacrosanct — this is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
I agree that the party needs to be open to gays, but abortion is not an issue we need to compromise on. Pro-life all the way.
Spit!
Yep.
“We’re leading the country to Hell, but not as quick as the other guys,” IS NOT a platform I can support.
It's at www.rnc.org. Click the big, silver "My Plan" button.
I really liked what he wrote, and am saddened that fellow FReepers are jumping all over this guy before he's even had a chance. Might help if his comments about gays and pro-choicers were taken in the broader context of his plan, outlined at the above link.
NOBODY has ever suggested otherwise.
There is a world of difference between homosexuals and the militant homosexual agenda.
Steele didn't just say he wanted to reach out to "gays" (I HATE THAT WORD), but he said that the Republican Party needs to reach out to those "who support gay marriage".
Those people can go to hell, because that is exactly where they are headed.
Jhn 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
Expert straw man argument.
Christianity does not support totalitarianism, at least not on purpose. Without Christianity there would be no USA.
What a Difference a Day er Month makes.
Hardly. How can we fool them today.
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