Retired naval officer calls for gay marriage in GOP platform

Wisconsin Gazette.com ^ | Aug 9 2012 | Wig

[scottjewell]

A retired Navy captain is asking Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell to support adding marriage equality to the GOP platform. McDonnell chairs the committee that will propose a platform at the national convention in Tampa later this month.

Retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, in a letter to McDonnell, said the freedom to marry is in keeping with the party’s ideology.

“If given the opportunity, we will testify in support of the inclusion in the Republican platform of both the repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and the right of same-gender couples to marry and for those marriages to be recognized by our federal government,” Darrah wrote.

“Quite simply, these objectives correspond with the ideals of the Republican Party – opposition to government intrusion in people’s lives and a modern military that supports all service members and their families.”

[scottjewell]

Ugh :-(

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

... and the Mittens-ization of the party proceeds apace.

[Jim Robinson]

And that will be the death of the GOP.

[donhunt]

This clown doesn’t have a full seabag.

[FormerLib]

Clearly a Democrat-Obama plant who wants to knock the social conservatives completely out of the election.

Particularly now that so many African-American clergy are speaking out against Obama because of his ‘evolution’ towards ‘gay marriage.’

[scottjewell]

Maybe the thought of a gay marriage plank at the Tampa RNC will awaken Mitzi and make him go anti-gay marriage?

[liberty or death]

Remove him from the committee. Period.

[concerned about politics]

Retired naval officer calls for gay marriage in GOP platform

It would be political suicide.

[KC_Lion]

Cue the Funeral Music!

It's already here.

[upchuck]

Retired Navy Capt. Joan Darrah, in a letter to McDonnell, said the freedom to marry is in keeping with the party’s ideology.

Methinks perhaps Joan was retired from the Navy on a section 8.

[Ingtar]

Log Cabin Republicans announced yesterday that they are part of the process on the platform this time as well.

[DuncanWaring]

He’s just mad “Don’t ask, don’t tell” outlasted him.

[Olog-hai]

Another one irked at the failure of the Chick-Fil-A “kiss-in”?

[VMI70]

Here is a pic:

http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Joan-Darrah-pictured-right-with-her-wife-Lynne1-300x214.jpg

[grobdriver]

Clueless O turd.

This man is no shipmate of mine.

[Gay State Conservative]

Methinks perhaps Joan was retired from the Navy on a section 8.

Or a Section Q

[DuncanWaring]

Make that She/her.

Misread “Joan” as “John”.

Most inconvenient.

[zerosix]

A "she" retired Navy Captain, and people wondered why people like me didn't want women serving on ships or subs.

She is demanding gay marriage.

Let her go somewhere else (Saudia Arabia, perhaps) to peddle her pro-sodomy ideology.

[Bratch]

"Did somebody say Section 8?"

[cripplecreek]