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Nov. 21, 2012 8:29am Eddie Scarry

Ken Mehlman, former RNC chairman and 2004 campaign manager for George W. Bush, makes the conservative case for gay marriage in today’s Wall Street Journal:

Some misperceive the issue of marriage equality as exclusively progressive. Yet what could be more conservative than support for more freedom and less government? And what freedom is more basic than the right to marry the person you love? Smaller, less intrusive government surely includes an individual deciding whom to marry. Allowing civil marriage for same-sex couples will cultivate community stability, encourage fidelity and commitment, and foster family values. …

Conservatives don’t need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. It is sufficient to recognize the inherent conservatism in citizens’ desire to marry, to be judged on their work, and not to be singled out for higher taxes or bullying at school. These objectives can be achieved while also protecting religious liberty, as demonstrated by states enacting civil marriage with exemptions for religious institutions.

Mehlman came out as gay in 2010.

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HumbleMan
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 9:55am
Below is one of 45 stated goals (recorded in the congressional record on January 10, 1963) of the Communist Goals (excerpted from “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen)

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:24am
“Marriage equality”?? That’s an oxymoron. If marriage is no longer the Institution between man and woman- there is no longer any such thing as marriage. The simple fact that you have to put “Gay” or elaborate in any manner- eliminates MARRIAGE as the Institution that it is.
The whole “Gay marriage” thing is designed to divide and disenfranchise, marginalize and exploit for political purpose.
It is a “community organizing” tactic. Here is your proof: The simple solution that everyone can live with is a ‘NEW” Institution or whatever you want to call it FOR GAY PEOPLE. Attacking an Institution is unnecessary, divisive, politically motivated, downright ugly and a manufactured crisis for no purpose other than to drive a wedge between people that otherwise does not and need not exist. ALINSKY!@ ALINKSY/whitehouse.gov

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TMOverbeck
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 10:19am
Then let’s go the “civil-unions-for-all” route and take the “marriage” language out of the law books. I personally have nothing against same-sex couples receiving marriage benefits, and I strongly believe it won’t harm my marriage nor my faith one bit.

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Caremom
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:15am
“And what freedom is more basic than the right to marry the person you love?”-Ken Mehlman
The founders shudder. This is the fallacy of those who trust–not in the GOOD of another–but in the EGOcentric feelings of the FLESH. Marriage is not a right or raw eros seized, but a sacrament meant to reflect the enduring love of God to His children, and for procreation.

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