Posted on 04/17/2015 8:18:46 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The Republican Party's platform formally supports natural marriage. But in what may be a sign of the times, the GOP-controlled Senate has approved a non-binding resolution in support of granting marriage benefits to couples who have contracted same-sex “marriages.”
The resolution asked the Senate's budget negotiators to make sure that "all legally married same-sex spouses have equal access to the Social Security and veterans' benefits they have earned and receive equal treatment under the law pursuant to the Constitution."
Approved by a voice vote, the resolution received no opposition by any senators, nor a request from senators to put the resolution to a roll call vote -- even from the three Republican senators who are candidates for U.S. president, and who oppose same-sex "marriage."
The constitutionality of same-sex "marriage" has not been declared in the United States, though some federal judges and politicians have argued that a right to such unions exists in the Constitution. The Supreme Court will hear what may be the definitive case on the matter on April 28, with a decision expected this summer.
Public opinion polls show that Americans generally support redefining marriage, with approximately 55 percent in favor. Those numbers are higher among younger voters, though nearly three-quarters of Republicans oppose same-sex "marriage."
This isn't the first time Republican senators have supported expanding federal marriage benefits to include same-sex couples. Several weeks ago, a number of senators voted for the same resolution, which passed 57-43. However, given the more conservative majority in the House, the measure is unlikely to be included in the conference budget bill.
Senators who went on the record in support of the resolution weeks ago include Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Richard Burr off North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Dean Heller of Nevada, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
POLITICO notes that electoral politics may have played a role in the votes by Ayotte, Kirk, and Johnson, all of whom face tough re-election campaigns next year.
Portman supported same-sex "marriage" after his son announced he was homosexual.
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Is there any way to move to a different planet?
If they back the same “benefits,” then they are backing counterfeit “marriage.”
Why can they not see this?
> Is there any way to move to a different planet?
No place left to go anywhere on earth.
The whole place is gone insane and subject to every whim of Satan.
We have to wait for the return of Jesus.
One way or another He’s coming for me, so I surrender it all to Him.
Is there any way to move to a different planet?
Mars may soon be off the list of choice planets.
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Someone remind me again why it was so imperative to vote for Republicans last November.
The prospects of a GOP President in the 2016 election are being damaged more by Republican Congress-critters than by the candidates themselves.
I'm thinking about buying an island somewhere and starting my own country.
All is lost. I’m going the Third way.
What is the third way?
Why do people stupidly buy into this sickness?
Where is the new frontier?
The GOP is hopeless, the Democrats are fully demonic, the Constitution Party is just playing at it, the Libertarians suck blood from the democrats half the time, and all the others are assorted oddballs.
And that’s all pretending that a different party would make a difference. I suspect the difference maker might be an EMP that knocked out the media for about a decade.
If I could get my wife to leave our grandkids, we’d be so long gone... I’d have taken Matt Bracken’s advice years ago.
Let me know when you start accepting visas...
[[Why do people stupidly buy into this sickness?]]
Because the man of lawlessness is being let loose and people will be deceived and evil will reign as the new ‘good’.
Definitely. If I were young in this era, I’d definitely be looking at alternative locations and lifestyles.
That is the question of the century. How are so many people so completely manipulated by such a small number of people who want to chose to participate in a perverted sexual act? I am truly amazed at the power wielded by a very small segment of society, and the willingness of smart people to suspend their intelligence to fall in line.
The GOP has become just about as corrupt and morally depraved as the Dems.
Amen!
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