“If you’re not vocally pro-life and pro-traditional marriage, I don’t think you can win here because you’re going to get hammered,” added Clovis. “Maybe you could win in New Hampshire, but it’s a different culture.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa caucuses, said that judges upholding a right to gay marriage does not make it morally acceptable for states to give out marriage licenses.
“There’s no such thing in the Constitution as judicial supremacy where the courts make a ruling and it becomes quote ‘the law of the land,’” he said before a speech to conservatives here Saturday, in remarks that drew criticism. “A great example of this is the 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court in one of its most horrendous decisions … said that people who are black aren’t fully human. Now Abraham Lincoln said he wasn’t going to fully abide by that. Nobody argues that Abraham Lincoln should have abided by the Dred Scott decision. We recognize that he had the courage to realize that he didn’t have to enforce something that was morally wrong.”
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Ben Carson on Gay Marriage: “I don’t think it’s over”
“If you dodge the question, then it’s the kiss of death,” said social conservative Sam Clovis, who finished second behind Joni Ernst in last year’s Iowa GOP Senate primary. “Candidates have got to be declarative about where they stand. Period.”
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I say this to all conservatives, libertarians and freedom lovers of all stripes:
Stop with the pet issues and the circular firing squad and the ultimatums of purity. This helps the enemy and the enemy is the socialist party.
Amen to that
If SCOTUS does a Roe on this, you'll see supporters of traditional marriage do what the anti-abortionists have done for 40 years and, yes, Virginia, you will see the country come around to their viewpoint.
It's not morally wrong, but it's destroying the word marriage which covers ways in which male and female relations thrive or fail.
Civil unions would cover same sex just fine.
The difference is activists. Everybody must think the same. Marriage must cover everybody.
The demagogue's art is in encouraging people to have strong opinions about things they don't understand.
This issue is a done deal as far as the government is concerned. SCOTUS will, once again, do the expedient in the moment thing and wave its magical law wand in support of hype and strange.
Then the re-thinking will begin. Helpfully, SJWs will step up the lawsuits forcing religious people -Christians and Jews only, of course-to violate their principles and beliefs to accommodate LGBT principles and beliefs.
Should the 2016 presidential candidates blow their credibility and waste their time on this issue which has not yet gotten to the grim reality stage? NO.
Homosexual marriage is a low hanging fruit. How are you as a presidential candidate going to tell before, during and after the primaries that you are a conservative that is based on how the left has painted all conservatives? How are you going to articulate what you are going to do as president, to get elected as president, run this country and not become an effigy for the left? If you can do that before, during, and after the primaries, you will win moderates, and some democrats.
Do not fall into the leftist traps of demagoguery and frankly, the only guy I know who can do this and has done it successfully so far is Scott Walker.
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