I assumed by "GOP" you meant an individual, but it's in the party platform. This paragraph with quote is heartening, I think it reflects most sensible GOPs:
Glad the senator chimed in on that one. That seems to be a pretty ridiculous addition to the platform regardless of your approval or disapproval of the practice.
On July 4, 2009 I was in Livingston and missed the fourth parade in Bozeman. Two groups had parades: the tea partiers and a group called Gay Loggers for Jesus. They sold out of the t shirts pretty quick.
I'm about as far to the right on the fiscal side as one can get and vote GOP most of the time, HOWEVER I do NOT agree with the montana GOP on that issue. Who really cares if two guys want to go do the nasty. Is it going to affect how I live my life?? NO of course not. If my fellow conservative breathern would stop spouting that kind of nonsense we might be able to get a few more people to join the party. I know we lose a lot of trust with voters of my age, 35&under, with these statements.
Just as the good/moderate Muslims need to call out their terrorist fringe members, so do normal GOPers need to call out their whack-job brethren. I wouldn't complain if normal Christians also called out their creationist fringe members.
So you think Christians should be called out and pressured into abandoning their belief in Divine creation? Funny how this thread about "live and let live it isn't hurting you" just took a predictable turn.
Everybody is entitled to lunatic fringe ideas, but usually it's bad politics to write them into the party platform. I don't think it is so much on gay issues though. Gay people have civil rights here only because they are protected by the Constitution. If we put it up to a vote, I'd bet we would deny them the right to be school teachers and we woul d allow municipalities to zone areas where it's legal for them to buy houses. I'm not saying I like it, but that's how politics works in Texas and I suspect other Republican states.
This isn't that different than the Texas GOP platform which says, "We oppose the legalization of sodomy. We demand that Congress exercise its authority granted by the U.S. Constitution to withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy." (At the time Lawrence v. Texas as decided, the sodomy statute outlawed "deviate sexual intercourse" (defined as contact of any part of the genitals with the mouth or anus or any penetration of the genitals or anus of another person) between members of the same sex). The same law is still on the books. Texas Penal Code sec. 21.06. I wonder how many other states' GOP platforms have something similar? Edit: Sorry, forgot the link. The Link
And if you think the Republicans are a little right wing now socially, wait until the Tea Party takes over. Anti "gay agenda" is a big part of their beliefs. I finally heard one interviewed who would admit their social agenda, although most refues to acknowledge this is part of their belief system. This was on PBS a few mornings ago.
I think this is a move in the right direction. Next, they should make it illegal for women to speak in church, a la Corinthians 14:34, Fight the good fight, republicans, until all the bible is written into law. Next stop after women talking in church-----outlaw eating shrimp a la Leviticus.
Ahh more talking points. You guys just love when a small, minority fringe group says something out there so you can pin it to the entire GOP. Very classy - and may I say, very in keeping with the spirit of the Internet!
The problem started for the GOP, I suppose, when they had to drop "fiscal" from conservative because they weren't really very good at that and adopt "social" as the modifier to firmly (over firmly?) secure the religious element of the party that was so enthusiastically courted. Embracing abortion as a prominent partisan issue led, in my opinion, to the raising of other issues a lot of GOPs aren't that comfortable with such as homosexual relationships. My guess is that a lot of traditional GOPs aren't crazy about candidates and office-holders determined to insert religious dogma into public education and even the legal system. I hope those traditional GOPs prevail in the long run.
How about all those right wing nuts in California that voted against gay marriage, I believe that was on the ballot where Obama received how many more votes in California than McCain? Interesting that Obama received so many more votes and the Proposition lost? Must be all those right wingers who switched to vote for Obama.......
