Posted on 06/09/2012 9:24:53 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
But the progress within Republican ranks has also been pivotal, not to mention fascinating. And a compelling character in that subplot just added a new twist to the narrative, one that suggests the rapidly changing political dynamics of this issue and its potential import to a party dogged by an image of being culturally out of touch.
That character is Paul E. Singer, 67, a billionaire hedge fund manager who is among the most important Republican donors nationwide. In just one Manhattan fund-raiser last month, he helped to collect more than $5 million for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
He steadfastly supports conservative candidates. He also steadfastly supports gay rights in general and marriage equality in particular. Along with a few other leading Wall Street financiers, he contributed and helped drum up the majority of the money — more than $1 million — that fueled the campaign for same-sex marriage in New York.
He has given nearly $10 million of his own money to gay-rights initiatives, including the same-sex marriage efforts not only in New York but also in New Hampshire and New Jersey. And that figure doesn’t include his assistance in tapping a broad network of donors for individual candidates. He was pivotal in rounding up about $250,000 apiece for the Republican state senators in New York whose votes for same-sex marriage provided its margin of victory in the Legislature.
Now, Singer says, he’s providing $1 million to start a new “super PAC” with several Republican compatriots. Named American Unity PAC, its sole mission will be to encourage Republican candidates to support same-sex marriage, in part by helping them to feel financially shielded from any blowback from well-funded groups that oppose it.
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The conservative movement hasn't been about single issue special interest groups. If someone gets so upset about a single issue, let them for their own "kill the fags" party and compete for votes.
Dick Cheney and Andrew Breitbart couldn't have cared less who was living with who.
I hope you were being sarcastic.
There needs to be a focus on the young whose attitudes have not yet been poisoned by the mainstream media’s glorification of homosexuality. Children should grow up with a firm conviction that there are plain and simple Biblical principles at stake. It is just too late to do much with some of the adults who seem to have developed a tolerance for defying God’s teachings.
I have considered preparing a pamphlet designed to appeal to young readers and their parents as a medium for explaining the Biblical bases for opposing homosexuality - easy to read translations of the Word’s relevant passages beneath a simple title (”God and Faggotism”) designed to lightly shock and to arouse the attention of young readers.
The key is to get to the young while they are just developing attitudes that will shape their world views as adults.
I think there’s a fundamental issue here that always goes unsaid. Are conservatives willing to associate with gays? The answer often appears to be “no” If a gay couple moves into your neighborhood and invites you to a house warming BBQ, do you attend? If a gay person offers to help you promote a candidate, would you approve? I suspect that in many cases the answer again is “no.” Am I wrong?
Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s take our marching orders from the New York Times!
Figures. The Party nominates a Massachusetts liberal for nominee, and the GOP accelerates its slide toward degeneracy. Looking more and more like the end of the road for this lifelong Republican voter.
If you don’t oppose the radical leftism of the homosexual agenda, perhaps the most radical element of leftism of all, then you are not a conservative.
J Edgar Hoover wasn’t queer and he wasn’t a cross dresser.
J. Edgar Hoover, a real law and order conservative - social conservative - was queer.
He was a social conservative like Nixon was anti communism. Their reputations surpassed reality.
The Republican Party and the Conservative Movement has long been infiltrated by queers and their Homosexual Agenda supporting Sycophants.
Ken Mehlman, Mark Foley, Jeff Gannon and Larry Craig embarrassed the Conservative Movement by being exposed as gay and now even Dick Cheney advocates Gay Marriage.
The GOP, in order to survive, must divorce itself from queers and purge from the party all those who support the Queer Agenda.
In short, there is no conceivable way to separate social institutions from economic factors, or economic factors from social institutions.
Then, of course, there is the fact that "same sex marriage," is an oxymoron. The whole concept of marriage involves the endeavor to sanctify human procreation, and institutionalize the multi-genreational concept of the family--which is the basic building block of both a healthy society & a healthy economy.
William Flax
Cultural marxism always leads to economic and political marxism.
If they were really Conservative, we would not know they were queer.
You are twenty or thirty years too late. Poll high school students today and you will mind them to be for homosexual marriage and all the other social ills, by a pretty good margin.
Either what is in the article is true or it is false. If it’s true, then what does it matter who said it? Apparently Mr. Singer makes no secret of his goals.
Either what is in the article is true or it is false. If it’s true, then what does it matter who said it? Apparently Mr. Singer makes no secret of his goals.
Reality is not divisible. The attack on the respect for normal & traditional attitudes towards sex roles & family formation, is a clear attack on the foundations of any civilization; the continuity of any culture; on the future of a people. When you undermine the foundation, you undermine--indeed, wreak absolute havoc on--what is built on that foundation.
For a slightly different aspect of the same attack on heritage & future, see Is Pursuit of 'Diversity' A Return To Babel.
William Flax
One does not need to purge any of their personal associations in order to recognize that what is being sought by this particular "big spender," is a direct attack on the validity of the traditional processes by which families are formed, and the multi-generational pursuits of a people, crystallize.
Let us not speculate on whether the "big spender," has a personal problem, or has merely bought an obviously flawed argument. The fact is that the argument is hopelessly flawed. Calling an effort to sanctify the muscular exercises in which some people engage, "marriage," is simply on the same level as trying to legislate a geocentric universe. It simply will not fly.
William Flax
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