We Heard . . .
THAT Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s chief strategist in last year’s presidential campaign, is urging conservatives to drop their opposition to same-sex marriage.
In a speech on Friday to Log Cabin Republicans, a gay rights organization, Schmidt said, “There is a sound conservative argument to be made for same-sex marriage.
“I believe conservatives, more than liberals, insist that rights come with responsibilities. No other exercise of one’s liberty comes with greater responsibilities than marriage.”
Schmidt also made a political argument for his stance, noting that McCain lost to Barack Obama by a wide margin among voters under 30, who are generally more accepting of gay couples, CNN reported.
McCain voiced opposition to same-sex marriage on the 2008 campaign trail.
THAT a new political action organization called GOProud has been formed to represent gay conservatives and their conservative allies.
The group’s chairman is Christopher Barron, former political director for Log Cabin Republicans, and its executive director is Jimmy LaSalvia, former policy director for Log Cabin Republicans.
The organization said in a release: “GOProud represents gay conservatives and their allies. GOProud is committed to a traditional conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and a confident foreign policy.
“GOProud promotes our traditional conservative agenda by influencing politics and policy at the federal level.”
This is an excerpt from an email that I recieved from Newsmax.com. Because of my Christian beliefs, I think that marriage is between one man and one woman. I believe that God was the creator of marriage in the book of Genesis. I also believe the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. That city was destroyed because of the evil in it. They were under the judgement of God.
I look at it on the secular side, also. If there is a gay couple, and one of them is in the hospital, the other one doesn't have any rights to look after them. If the Gay Community wanted to label their union under a different name besides marriage, I would be more apt to go for it, like a civil union kind of thing.
When they want to call their union a marriage, I believe that my Christian beliefs are being infringed upon. If they would take it to a more secular level it wouldn't bother me as much. I heard a Catholic Priest that was on Fox News say that it wasn't that we hate the Gay Community. He said that they were the ones who have to learn to control it.
Maybe the Gay Community would stop hating Christians so much if they got their rights through a civil union. How do you all feel about this issue? I would really like to know.
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