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Republican leaders silent as gay marriages become legal in Florida
Miami Herald ^ | 1/5/15 | MICHAEL VAN SICKLER AND MARY ELLEN KLAS

Posted on 01/05/2015 6:16:46 PM PST by Oliviaforever

Leaders of the Florida Republican Party that supported the state’s 2008 ban on gay marriage were mostly silent Monday as throngs cheered South Florida couples given the right to wed.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gopagenda; homosexualagenda; romneyagenda; romneymarriage
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Not just Florida, but GOP Leaders from across the country have been not only been silent, but have condoned gay marriage.
1 posted on 01/05/2015 6:16:46 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

Hows that lesser evil workin for you all?


2 posted on 01/05/2015 6:17:34 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1000...and climbing.)
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To: Oliviaforever

3 posted on 01/05/2015 6:18:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Oh! The unmitigated SHAME of it ALL!!!


4 posted on 01/05/2015 6:18:56 PM PST by SierraWasp (Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
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To: Oliviaforever

Most of the Catholic bishops of Florida are toasting this with their friends behind closed doors.


5 posted on 01/05/2015 6:19:40 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: SierraWasp

Shame should be felt.


6 posted on 01/05/2015 6:20:45 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1000...and climbing.)
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To: Arthur McGowan
"Most of the Catholic bishops of Florida are toasting this with their friends behind closed doors."

If it's happening behind closed doors, how can you know it's happening?

7 posted on 01/05/2015 6:23:08 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Why couldn’t it feel queer???


8 posted on 01/05/2015 6:23:24 PM PST by SierraWasp (Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
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To: Oliviaforever

No point in voting for a party that’s no different than the Dems.

Christian owned businessowners are being sued by homonazis and nothing but silence from the GOP.

If social Conservatives aren’t worth defending then the GOP isn’t worth voting for.


9 posted on 01/05/2015 6:24:36 PM PST by RginTN
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To: SierraWasp

I’m sure many lesser evil voters do feel queer 24/7.


10 posted on 01/05/2015 6:24:54 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1000...and climbing.)
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To: fidelis

The more you know about their personal lives, the more you won’t doubt me.


11 posted on 01/05/2015 6:25:52 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Oliviaforever

Well, if the only “advisers” that you hire are gay, which is the case for Republicans, at least at the national level - guess what - they will tell you to KEEP QUIET regarding gay marriage, and that’s what we see now.


12 posted on 01/05/2015 6:27:39 PM PST by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win.)
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To: Oliviaforever

The judge is ignoring law - not just statute, but the Florida Constitution - and substituting his own definition of marriage and then saying that under this revised definition - actually a lie - the “law” is being unequally applied.

RPOF is showing just what squishes they are. That’s why Scott barely won - he and his administration are squishes. Bondi is derelict in her duty.


13 posted on 01/05/2015 6:31:39 PM PST by Ray76 (/s)
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To: fidelis

As a Catholic, I would not go that far, but I bet not one of them mentions it in a homily or prayer of the faithful. I am sick of the deafening silence in the catholic church at mass on this issue.


14 posted on 01/05/2015 6:32:10 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Oliviaforever

So-called “gay marriage,” or the even-more-obnoxious question-begging “marriage equality,” is an evil thing.

In itself, it’s a joke. Such “marriages” will never be numerous, or enduring. As evil as the whole idea is, it will fizzle out. Sodomy will, however, continue.

The real evil is in giving same-sex couples the “right” to adopt. Besides having their psycho-sexual development screwed up, and being guaranteed to be brought up non-Christian, such children are much more likely to be abused, sexually, physically, and emotionally.


15 posted on 01/05/2015 6:33:38 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Ray76

The Florida Constitution defines marriage the same way it has been defined for millennium. The judge is making up a new definition in defiance of law.


16 posted on 01/05/2015 6:35:51 PM PST by Ray76 (/s)
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To: Arthur McGowan

It will only fizzle out if there are no more people to punish for not accepting it, in my opinion. I don’t think that will happen, and I don’t think they really want it to. I think the whole thing is about using the power of the state to punish and to be able to keep punishing those they know can simply never accept it. It’s the stick they won’t have to put down.

Freegards


17 posted on 01/05/2015 6:41:33 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: Oliviaforever
“In 2008, I joined over 60 percent of Floridians to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman in our state constitution,” said Florida House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, R-Merritt Island, in an email reply to the Times/Herald. “I believe voters on the state level should decide this issue, and not the courts.”
House Appropriations Chair Richard Corcoran, R-Trinity, who becomes speaker in 2016, echoed Crisafulli.
“I believe in traditional marriage,” Corcoran said. “We definitely have a problem with a judiciary not respecting the separation of powers.”

The hack writer for the Miami Hurled rips into the Republicans for keeping their powder dry. I think Pam Bondi did a fine job defending the Constitution of the state which is her sworn duty!

Apparently the pukes that pass for "journalists" in Florida don't give a damn about oaths.

I have said before: Genesis 19, Judges 19, Isaiah 5:20 and Revelation 21:8 are all respected ancient texts that have more wisdom than every little scribble that federal judge Robert Hinkle has eeked out.

The final word will not be one that celebrates wickedness. I know that full well.

And so does everyone else, deep down inside.

18 posted on 01/05/2015 6:48:15 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Ray76

WTF? Bondi took this to the Circuit and to SCOTUS.

She did exactly what she should do.

I am wondering what exactly you think she could done other than her actions.

She didn’t throw in the towel like Christie, Sandoval, or the Republicans in South Carolina and Pennsylvania.


19 posted on 01/05/2015 6:50:43 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Ransomed

Federal judges “shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour”. It’s time Congress throws some of them out.


20 posted on 01/05/2015 6:52:22 PM PST by Ray76 (/s)
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