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[W:422] So, marriage is destroyed, right?

Craig234

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For years, Republicans ran against gay marriage equality - they used the issue to get Republican voters out.

The message from the activists and practically all Republican politicians was the same: gay marriage marriage equality would destroy the institution of marriage. If you liked marriage, if you liked children, you had to protect marriage by opposing gay marriage equality.

It's interesting to review this as a typical example of a Republican politicization of an issue, now that we have some more history.

I considered pulling up a long list of quotes, but I'll stick with the Republican Senate Majority leader as typical: "Will activist judges not elected by the American people destroy the institution of marriage, or will the people protect marriage as the best way to raise children? My vote is with the people."

That's what he said when Bush's effort to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage failed to get the 60 required votes. Republicans voted 45-6 in favor of the amendment - support for banning gay marriage in the constitution had overwhelming Republican support int he Senate and elsewhere.

So, how are those claims of nearly the entire party holding up now, that the institution of marriage would be destroyed, made so loudly for so many years? It'd be nice if Republicans voters could learn a little something from examples like this about the false, misguided hyperbole the Republican leaders to get votes.
 
What difference does it make! The Homosexual agenda won that round.

What deviant behavior do you want legalized now?
 
WCH said:
What difference does it make! The Homosexual agenda won that round.

What deviant behavior do you want legalized now?
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Did your marriage fall apart?
 
WCH said:
What difference does it make! The Homosexual agenda won that round.

What deviant behavior do you want legalized now?
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Whoosh.

The topic is, were Republicans telling the truth or a lie claiming for years that the institution of marriage would be destroyed, and protecting marriage and raising children required banning gay marriage equality? Were they right, or lying to get bigots' votes for their plutocracy agenda?
 

It's law...wth do you want now?
 
After all that drama, like 4 gay people got married.
 
WCH said:
It's law...wth do you want now?
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For you to learn something from years of Republicans lying. Do you agree that Republicans lied for years that gay marriage equality would destroy marriage, to get votes from people like you? Or are you in denial, saying la-la-la-la-la-la about the issue now, while having supported their false claim?
 

Unlike those on the Left, I have my own opinions and don't rely on Pols to tell me how and what to think.
 
WCH said:
It is part of a larger agenda to destroy decency in this country. It's yet another cog in identity politics to boot.
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Opinion noted and dismissed
 

In exactly the same way the Internet was destroyed by rolling back net neutrality rules, sure. :shrug:

Fearmongering is what fearmongers do.
 
swing_voter said:
After all that drama, like 4 gay people got married.
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Nearly three years ago, over one million gay Americans were married. Would you mind pointing me to one honest post you have made?
 
WCH said:
Unlike those on the Left, I have my own opinions and don't rely on Pols to tell me how and what to think.
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And yet they all come directly from Trump. Strange how every conservative is a free thinker who, completely on his own, comes up with the exact same opinion.
 
20 years ago, Bill Clinton signed Defense of Marriage Act - Washington Times



The point here is not so much about how Democratic politicians are hypocritical, as how much every politician...no matter what their Party...will tell the particular people they are talking to what they want to hear. To get votes.
 
rocket88 said:
And yet they all come directly from Trump. Strange how every conservative is a free thinker who, completely on his own, comes up with the exact same opinion.
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They don't call us "the Right" for nothing.
 
WCH said:
Unlike those on the Left, I have my own opinions and don't rely on Pols to tell me how and what to think.
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Nonetheless, it's a fact what Republican politicians almost universally said. So, since you have opinions, what is your opinion on whether their claims that gay may marriage equality would destroy marriage were true, or lies to get votes from people like you?
 
Harshaw said:
In exactly the same way the Internet was destroyed by rolling back net neutrality rules, sure. :shrug:
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First of all, the claims aren't the same. Second of all, net neutrality hasn't been dismantled. The courts preserved states' rights to keep it, and California as usual has led the nation with the strongest net neutrality law.
 
WCH said:
What difference does it make! The Homosexual agenda won that round.

What deviant behavior do you want legalized now?
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I guess you think that marriage legalizes sex between the married parties that otherwise would be illegal, but that's not true. Nonetheless, same-sex marriage is an accepted standard in the US based on SCOTUS decision and thus is not, by definition, deviant behavior. It may be deviant behavior to YOU, but then so might dancing or eating raw fish.
 
Craig234 said:
First of all, the claims aren't the same. Second of all, net neutrality hasn't been dismantled. The courts preserved states' rights to keep it, and California as usual has led the nation with the strongest net neutrality law.
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Of course they're the same. They're not different just to be less inconvenient to your political preferences.

I know, I know; it's not "fearmongering" when Democrats do it. I expected nothing else from you.
 
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