12-03-2006, 04:51 PM
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So Fucking Gay
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 19,714
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
elements of the republican party do not constitute the republican party as a whole. the christian right does not consitiute the republican party. i think that people in general overstate the degree to which people care about this issue or the degree to which people might be opposed to it.
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One of Karl Rove's primary agendas leading up to BOTH presidential elections, and this recent mid-term election, was to put a "ban gay marriage" initiative on the ballots of important swing states.
Why?
To bring the base out to the polls.
I don't think it's possible to overstate the extent to which the Republican Party, or Christian Evangelicals, have been attacking homosexuals.
Now, you may be more of a Goldwater Republican, and more power to you if you are, but you need to realize the percentage of the Republican Party these days (and certainly those calling the shots), that follow libertarian stances are VERY small.
Like it or not, the Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious right.
HOPEFULLY, after the midterms, the more libertarian voices of the Republican Party will start to get heard, although I'm not holding my breath.
As for Christian Evangelicals and their major leaders and organizations? I hear them talking about 1 of 2 things: Abortion or Faggots.
Can't remember the last time I heard Christian Evangelical leaders talking about any other major "sins" like say, ooooooooh, divorce. The bible does a MUCH better job at spelling out what kind of sin that is, compared to the couple of lines it devotes to homosexuality.
Maybe that's because divorce is a sin that about 60% of them are guilty of....... |
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