Posted on 03/11/2014 2:08:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you were wondering why CPAC was so light on traditional-marriage rhetoric from the podium, here’s why. An event populated mainly by young conservatives and libertarians isn’t a good venue for that anymore.
You’ll hear more of it, I’m sure, at the convention two years from now. But at the rate we’re going, probably not too much more. Where will the 30-49 group be in 2016?
The most striking numbers there, actually, are how small the differences are between various Democratic age groups. It’s an astounding consensus to have 18-year-old and 65-year-old Dems both above 60 percent support and within 15 points of each other on a practice that was barely on the cultural radar 20 years ago. Makes me wonder how many senior-citizen votes the GOP picked up over the last decade as the 65+ demographic sorted itself out. And how many younger votes it lost.
Pew’s not the only pollster lately showing majority support for gay marriage among young GOPers, either. A few weeks ago, the NYT/CBS poll found 56 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 in favor of legalized SSM. (Just 29 percent of Republicans age 45 or older agreed.) That’s a rare case of sharp disagreement on an issue among different conservative age demographics. The same poll found the two groups within five points of each other on guns, abortion, the minimum wage, and ObamaCare, The only other prominent outlier was — ta da — marijuana legalization, where 43 percent of younger Republicans support legalization versus only 28 percent of older ones.
Exit question: Given Republican sensitivity to changing demographics and the fact that millennials might be more gettable next time than last, is there a single major 2016 candidate who’s likely to spend much time on gay marriage on the stump? The only one I can think of is Huckabee, who may calculate that his only path to victory is consolidating social conservatives. Everyone else, including social cons like Cruz and Rubio, will probably take a federalist approach to traditional marriage.
Not when it is voting for self worship.
I assume that you're referring to the rejection of biblical Christianity that's been gathering speed for a century or more in Europe and has now become almost universal in that part of the world. The US is a late comer to that road to ruin, but it's picking up speed here at a rate that will soon result in a near total rejection of biblical Christianity here as well as in Europe.
You can put a very large portion of the blame on our public schools for this rejection of biblical truth, and an even larger portion on the great majority of the faculties of our colleges and universities who are very open about their determination to stamp out what they regard as medieval superstition.
LOL, voting pro-God and conservative, is not “voting for self worship”.
Yes it is when the actual persons involved are busy navel gazing and overestimating human power and giving short attention to the actual God. Like to all visible signs you do, in fact.
You can put a large proportion of the blame on actual Christians who have been dropping the ball.
No, either you vote pro-God and conservative, or you get on conservative political forums and attack conservative politics and activism and promote Godless libertarianism, all the time spewing self righteous holier than thou fake God talk while promoting anti-God politics.
Your idea of conservative is just the sort of travesty we are seeing with the student. No wonder it has long shot its wad of credibility.
And you are the one spewing self (human) righteousness. Some nerve you have accusing ME of it.
You have got to settle down.
From posting about me and to me on threads that I’m not even on, to now dragging in another thread to this one.
Take it down a notch.
Federal courts are not state lawmakers
Yeah, why bother telling me that?
Especially since I already acknowledge you saying it, “”With some states legalizing gay marriage, and the federal government accepting those state marriages for it’s employees and military, then it was, and is, going to take some strong politics to reverse this.””
Federal courts are imposing it
One thing that young adults and libertarians are terrified of, is appearing unhip, “unsophisticated”, they desperately want to be seen as trendy and cutting edge.
Yeah I know that in some cases they are, why are you continuing to tell me this?
Indoctrination is awful in schools..tv too, yes...some music.
(And they're loaded and use great caterers).
My friends who are a gay couple, did not get the whole gay marriage thing, and they thought it wasn’t too bright to have gay Scoutmasters, they also did not like fems.
May God help me to never again hold my peace in voice or on paper when my Lord is being ridiculed and scorned by the Christ-hating liberal elite who now have near-total control of this once Christian nation. It's not so much us believers who they hate, although they do despise us, it's our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ who somewhere in their hearts they know is truth and light in both this sin-blighted world and the perfect world yet to come.
When we decided that it was okay for people to “marry” three, four and five times, there was no moral authority left to oppose any OTHER redefinition of marriage.
Same sex marriage isn’t a marriage at all. But neither is divorcing your wife because you’re “unfulfilled” and “marrying” someone else.
And entertainers stage sham marriages that last for a few days or weeks. Conservatives do nothing to change the laws that allow THAT.
How can anybody take us seriously as conservatives when we raise an outcry about the sanctity of marriage being harmed by homosexuals? We’ve ignored its continuous desecration by heterosexuals for decades now.
The same kind of selfishness leads to both sins.
“... If I ever have kids, I would rather die then send them to the public schools of today...colleges too!”
If you haven’t had kids yet, . . . by the time they get to college a good segment of the baby boomers will be retired, suffering from old age or dead. That is why I maintain hope. Many baby boomers rejected their parents conservative values, they will be dealt the same fate. PS - Make sure your kids study something that will allow them to learn to think, make money and enjoy their vocation.
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