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S.E. Cupp Tells TheBlaze Why She Supports Gay Republican Groups — and How the GOP Should Handle the Issue

Feb. 28, 2013 9:39am Billy Hallowell

TheBlaze TV’s S.E. Cupp captured headlines on Tuesday after she announced that she’s backing out of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) until gay Republican groups are officially welcomed. Her decision was rooted in the notion that CPAC reportedly allows gay groups to attend, but does not permit them to sponsor the event — something she called a “cop-out” of sorts. On Wednesday, TheBlaze interviewed Cupp to speak further about her views on same-sex marriage and how the GOP should be handling the issue.

First and foremost, we asked Cupp how she believes the party should be handling the complex social debate — one that is increasingly dividing Republicans. In an e-mail response, she explained that the GOP should be celebrating and acknowledging that it is a party of intellectual diversity. This is true not only on the same-sex marriage front, but also on a myriad of other important issues.

S.E. Cupp Gives Her Views on Gay Marriage and How the Republican Party Should Handle the Issue

TheBlaze TV’s S.E. Cupp (Photo Credit: TheBlaze)

“Libertarians, social conservatives and even fiscal hawks have different views on gay marriage, and even within those subsets of the party there are different foundational backgrounds and perspectives on the issue,” Cupp noted. “That’s not a bad thing. What we can’t do, as a party, is castigate or marginalize the conservatives whose support we already enjoy for their positions on gay rights.”

Just as she has defended the notion that the party should embrace gay conservatives, Cupp also spoke about the importance of not disparaging those who disagree with these unions. She noted her personal qualms with the Republican Party’s official stance on gay marriage, but said that she has no intention of speaking out against conservatives who stand in opposition to these rights for homosexual couples.

“There are interesting, well-intentioned and valid religious, constitutional and economic arguments against gay marriage, and those arguments should be given a voice,” she added. “But we allow for nuanced differences of opinion on fiscal issues, national security, foreign policy and elsewhere without questioning each others’ conservative credentials. We should allow for differences of opinion on gay marriage as well.”

S.E. Cupp (Photo Credit: TheBlaze)

Cupp doubled-down on the notion that there is no singular conservative view on gay rights: While libertarians would take a more favorable stance, evangelical Christians would not. As far as the commentator is concerned, neither perspective — or any of the others in between — would be distinguishable as the one, true conservative stance on the issue.

“I’m a conservative who believes that keeping the government out of my private life on a whole host of issues is totally consistent with supporting gay rights,” she said, noting that the finds no conflict between holding right-of-center views and allowing gays to marry.

From Cupp’s statements, some might assume that she’s arguing for the Republican Party to embrace gay marriage. But when asked about the political movement’s future if it fails to do so, she clarified her stance, saying that the GOP doesn’t need to “embrace” gay marriage, per se. Rather than touting the institution, she noted the importance of Republicans being inclusive and allowing gay individuals into the tent.

“Republicans (and Democrats, for that matter) who disagree with gay marriage shouldn’t be forced or bullied into accepting it — but the party does need to embrace gay conservatives, as well as conservatives who support gay marriage,” Cupp said.

As far as her CPAC decision goes, she informed the organizers before making her public statement on MSNBC. Rather than speaking out against event organizers, she reiterated positive feelings about the annual conservative conference, noting that it’s not her intention to use the bully pulpit or to attack CPAC. In fact, she said she’s hoping to work with the group again in the future. But for now, she simply cannot lend her support.

“This year it just didn’t feel like there was a way for me to support my friends at GOProud and [Log Cabin Republicans], promote an inclusive, big-tent party, and participate in the conference at the same time,” she explained.

Regardless of her views on same-sex marriage, Cupp also seems to have the party’s future in mind. Considering the dearth of support the GOP has among minority groups and young people, she said excluding gays simply doesn’t make sense.

It’s “beyond bad manners, that’s bad calculus,” she believes.

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RAGEAGAINSTTHEMACHINE
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:27am
The point is that we are not UN-inclusive. It’s just that I don’t want to know about that! I don’t need to “allow” you into my tent because you’re gay, or because I want to seem more sophisticated and therefore, tolerant. I’m not looking to co opt any group or part thereof. We need people with common sense, conservative values, and more importantly, people who are adept at fighting fire with fire. I’m sick and tired of having our azzes handed to us in the media/public arena because we make logical factual arguments and they over emote. It’s time we had our voices really heard and we have to stop hesitating to play their little game wanting to believe we can stay above. It’s all about that Overton Window!!
I don’t want to know what you do. Keep it to yourself. Do you know how to gain more shares of the language, thereby more control of the conversation? Welcome…

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- RaydocX
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:50am
  I agree with your position, BUT the platform of the party and the sm repeated sound bites of too many GOP politics say otherwise. The plank opposing gay marriage makes the party an adversary of the lgbt community.
  
  And still many educated gay men and women vote republican because they see the importance of fiscal conservatism and the low likelihood of forcing a narrow religious moral view on the country.
  
  Separation of church and stre IS designed to protect against that, as well as supposedly protecting against state persecution of any or all religion (a fact escaping activist atheists and too any federal activist judges).
  
  Welcome Hspanics for thir work ethic and family values.
  Welcome gays for their perspective and sense.
  Emphasize what republicans have done to help minorities and the poor, appropriately criticize obscene profits where they are found. Stand up for the constitution, state and local governing, and, individual responsibility… GOP is not opposed to contraception for women, merely for sTate funding of such. GOP s not opposed to protections of the individual patient, merely opposed to losing the patient in managing the populace.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:59am
  “GOP is not opposed to contraception for women”
  
  And there you go. Please, oh God please explain to me when the Republican party or ANY prominent Republican ever mentioned or tried to take contraception away from women.
  
  Turn off CNN and MSNBC. Put down the DNC talking points.
  
  And by the way, being opposed to gay marriage doesn’t automatically mean you’re “religious”.
  
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- A_CALL_TO_CONSCIENCE
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:28am
  @SOCALISTSLAYER
  
  “I’m a conservative who believes that keeping the government out of my private life on a whole host of issues is totally consistent with supporting gay rights,”
  
  Doesn’t sound like a commie to me. Sounds very freedom minded and consistent.
  
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- thepath
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:41am
  Either you are a conservative, or not. If someone is not a conservative, I respect that, but stop trying to pretend you are a conservative when you don’t believe in conservative values. And stop trying to tell true conservatives what they should now believe in. I have a lot more respect for someone who stands by their beliefs and calls them what they really are. If you are really a liberal, join the democrats, at least be honest. If someone believes in traditional marriage and Adam and Eve, where’s the tolerance and respect for that? At least they are standing by their conscience, their religious beliefs, and not changing according to what Cupp or the “world” tells them they should now believe, because other so called conservatives have “evolved.”
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:47am
  I agree with SE that the Conservative tent is big enough for atheists and LBGT people, but I have a real problem with what she did.
  
  Conservatives don’t really watch MSNBC, Progressives do. So, on MSMBC she informs Conservatives of her grievance with them? For the benefit of whom? If you have a grievance with someone, do you run to their enemies to tell them? If you really wanted a resolution, would you not take your grievance with Conservatives to a large gathering of them, say, like CPAC?
  
  Sorry, calling out Conservatives to an audience of their strongest opponents and boycotting the actual gathering of them can only be done to shame them, bully them, and/or win some kind of points for yourself with their enemies. So SE’s claim that she does not want to bully or shame Conservatives falls flat on its face.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:59am
  There is NO such thing as “gay rights” none, it is no where in the constitution or bill of rights,if S.E. had’nt added the “gay rights” to her statement, i could believe her. But since you did S.E. and you seem to believe “gays” deserve “special rights”, then piss off you moron…..
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:14pm
  This is just an attempt to move the Republican party further to the left as if it isn’t there already. If people want to live in the sin of homosexuality that is their choice just like anyone who chooses to live in a lifestyle of sin no matter what the continuing sin. I don’t care to support or stand with those who choose to live in a lifestyle of sin, that is my choice because by my standing with them I am thereby accepting of and supporting their lifestyle of sin. I don’t so I won’t. If you are an adulterer, I will not support you, If you are a tax cheat (thief) I will not support you, If you are a liar I will not support you, If you are worshiping a false god I will not support you, etc. etc. But I will offer you the message of salvation and I will respect you as a person for we are all made in God’s image and to disrespect you would be to disrespect God. The funny thing is adulterers and liars and tax cheats etc etc. don’t go forming their separate groups and then say let us be a part. Why do homosexuals? Why do they say they want to be a part but then separate themselves by forming homosexual conservative groups and wanting us to accept them sponsoring political events? Would they support The Conservative Group of Adulterers, The Conservative Group of Tax Cheats, The Conservative Group of Liars? I would thing not. But what this really is is what I first said. The communists own the Democrats and now are taking over the Republicans. They always use these tactics.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Cupp adheres to the principle, “Become more like a Democrat, so that you can win an election against a Democrat.” In the end, she is a Democrat, and probably a closet lesbian.
  
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- GoliathsDavid
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Sexuality should not even be part of the conversation. The Constitution guarantees the same rights to all Americans. However, as an individual, it is my sovereign choice who I will serve or create relationships with. To specifically endorse a groups based on their sexual choice completely negates the impartiality our Constitution so beautifully expresses. Beck, Cupp, Paul….their all caught up in the “conversation” and have turned focus away from our Constitution and onto popular notions.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 2:03pm
  Here’s the way I should handle this issue…………….
  
  ………….I will stick to my morals, and ethics, that are founded in my Christian belief, and NOT support anything, or anyone that thinks they have the right to change that.
  
  So I guess I won’t be voting anymore since our gov. has become such a cesspool. Of course, unless we get people like Mr. Ben Carson running for office.
  
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- oildriller
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 2:58pm
  got to go with S.E. on this. I don’t care who you marry. If it’s a sin that something you will have to deal with it down the road, I wouldn’t have sex with another man, but that’s just me. I have met a few gay conservatives and found them to be on the same page as me on 90% of the topics I find important. That’s as good as my straight friends. Conservatives get nailed every time gays or abortion comes up. So maybe we need to leave it alone.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 4:29pm
  The only picture i have ever seen of SE Cupp that doesn’t look like a self promoting, air brushed pseudo pinup is the one that penthouse ran. Us independents would love to know how to get Cupp even remotely out of the media and our lives.
  
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- JellyToast
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:41pm
  Why do I have to “embrace gay anything?” The whole premise is ridiculous. I don’t “embrace” or “celebrate” a whole host of lifestyles from anyone I know. Who goes around demanding everybody “embrace” them? Who does this? Only the homosexual community, for some reason, think their lifestyles are so incredible and awesome that if everybody every where isn’t celebrating who they are and what they do.. they must be protested and confronted and sometimes surrounded by whistle blowing mobs. If you are a conservative, then just be a conservative. Nobody is barring gay conservatives from anywhere. But if you want to wear it on your sleeve and wave a banner and demand we acknowledge “Yes, you are a gay conservative and we embrace you!” it’s just too freaking much! Go get a real life!
  
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- barryswhitehalf
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:42pm
  Liberals are the most used and ignorant people alive.
  Pay attention America.
  Counterfeit marriage ranked dead last on the list of issues influencing voters’ choice for president, but if you listen to the fascists on the left (like SE Cupp) sodomy based marriage is the most critical decision the country has faced in the last 150 yrs.
  SE, the ignorance is strong in you.
  
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- barryswhitehalf
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Driller,
  So we must abandon marriage and being pro-life to be successful in future elections? Funny, I never sas the left in America rewriting their entire platform after 2010 disater for them. Since you clearly don’t know, traditional marriage outperformed the Romney/Ryan ticket in all four states that had referendums on the issue this past November. Being for traditional marriage isn’t a loser, it’s that we need someone who is not afraid to confront the issue and be bold and proud about what they stand for instead of afraid of what the corrupt, fascist media will say about them if they believe as many do in one man/one woman marriage.
  http://www.nomblog.com/30908/
  
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- Chazael
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:16pm
  “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!” Matt 18:7
  
  If you want to uphold/place a stumbling block, because you believe someone has a right to trip over it… woe to you. Nor is that the Spirit of Christ working in and through you, but rather the spirit of the world.
  
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- sootsme
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 8:00pm
  Way back in the day, when my dad talked to me about sex, one of the very the first things he emphasized was that sex is between myself and my partner, and no one elses business. Period. This was considered part of being a lady or a gentleman. Or having some class, if you will. The point I am getting to is that folks that keep their private business private don’t have problems with others’ acceptance, etc. To me, folks with these issues have totally brought it upon themselves, and are reaping what they themselves have sown. A true conservative takes personal responsibility, so let’s see some already. Next case…
  
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- epepep
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:17pm
  Welcome aboard gays! I am straight hetero, all the way, married 33 years. But I am tolerant, to the max. We need to NOT allow a 2012 repeat. I know several gays. It is not as common here in the ultra-conservative area of Texas in which I live (Panhandle) and I don’t understand it (homosexuality), but I don’t Condemn it either. Just don’t throw it in my face, and spit phlegm with your vehemence. I am a hetero, but I do not flaunt it. I do not kiss my wife ostentatiously in public. I support gays in my daily conversations. Just not MILITANT IN YOUR FACE gays. I presume most Republican Gays are great Americans who do not force their choices in people’s faces. They care about AMERICA, just like all Republicans.
  Gays, Welcome Aboard! Vote Conservative. That is usually Republican, but not always. If the Demonrat … errr … Democrat is conservative, and more competent, and brave enough to vote for what is Right, rather than the Party Line, by all means, Vote for him or her. GO GAY REPUBLICANS!
  
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- B_rad
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:40pm
  This issue, more than any other on this forum, leaves me shaking my head. Conservatism has come to mean: Everyone must live in a way consistent with MY conservative beliefs and values. This is every bit as wrong-headed as the leftists and it ALSO a progressive position. Conservatives, by and large, no longer stand for limited govt., they stand for their kind of society and govt. Until that changes and we get back to the “Mind your business” mantra that got this country started, we’re going to continue down this same path to ruin.
  If it neither picks your pocket, nor breaks your leg, what business is it of yours? That doesn’t mean you have to embrace gay “marriage”, but who are you (and what free govt has the right) to tell any two consenting adults they cannot enter into any legal agreement? Marriage is for the church, yet carries specific legal rights granted by the state. There are 2 choices here that are consistent with liberty. 1)Get the state entirely out of marriage by granting no benefits or protections to the union, or 2)Allow any two consenting adults to benefit from those same benefits and protections, so long as they abide the same rules and responsibilities – just don’t call it marriage.
  S.E. is spot on with this one, and until everyone on here takes a wide-angle view of the issue, and stops with their own prejudices, we will not be able to unite and stop the progressive/communist tide.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:10pm
  Okay!!! … Until the federal gov gets out of the local public schools, AND the Dept of Education is abolished, I will be fighting against this sexual indoctrination of my family in the gov at every possible opportunity. And I “WILL NOT” support “ANYONE,” and that includes S.E. Cupp or Glenn Beck in the support of this very unhealthy, aberrant sexual behavior. It seems S. E. and Glenn have no clue about the moral rot that brought Rome to it’s knees … Embracing this aberrant sexual behavior is just one more cut, in the death of a thousands cuts that’s bleeding this country dry of it’s fundamental structure for the building blocks of any nation … the traditional family. There has NEVER been any advanced civilization that has ever equated man/women marriage with same-sex coupling. Even the pagans didn’t do so.
  
  It seems every commentator on the Real News program is a same-sex marriage supporter. They, and I fear Glenn as well, have drunk the radical homosexual activists indoctrination of equating race with a sexual behavior … I don’t know of any former ethnicities, but there certainly are multitudes of former LGBTQs. And so, that comparison is absolutely bogus … and one of the tactics for mainstreaming homosexuality used by Kirk and Madsen in their bk “After the Ball” was to use the bogus argument of equating race with a sexual behavior. Do your homework folks!! Looks like Glenn’s or S. E. Cupp are not going to do theirs.
  
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- cgnick
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:08am
  @NATIVE54
  “Until the federal gov gets out of the local public schools, AND the Dept of Education is abolished, I will be fighting against this sexual indoctrination of my family in the gov at every possible opportunity.”
  
  You sound like Ann Coulter saying she won’t consider legalization of marijuana until we eliminate the welfare state. The problem with you and People like Ann is you have no principle. Either you are for something or against it. If you call that a compromise, I can come up with random BS all day. Example: Until churches start paying taxes I’m going to fight tooth and nail against DOMA.
  
  Are you afraid one of your kids or family are going to come out of the closet? Will you hate them or blame it on imaginary ideas like satin? What is your beef with the constitution and equal rights to all?
  
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- CGray
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:26am
  This is what happens when you let a kid who just emerged from a liberal education be a spokesperson for conservatives.
  
  This caving on conservative values by liberal leaning Republicans is nothing new. They’ve been doing it for over a century. That is why we are in the mess we are in. Many of the talking heads in the Republican Party are liberal. President Eisenhower was a “fiscal conservative and social liberal.” That is not good enough.
  
  The reason Republicans are losing is not because they refuse to accept social liberal ideas but because they are. There’s not enough of a contrast between Republicans and Democrats, so what is the difference who you vote for?
  
  If Repubicans insist on pushing out morality from the Republican platform, they will lose conservatives. When conservatives are let loose to convey their own message to the people, most people will embrace it.
  
  The problem with SE Cupp is that she has only been informed of the gay story from a liberal point of view. She does not know the history of the gay movement, what is was intended for and where it is going.
  
  The purpose of the gay agenda was spelled out by The Gay Manifest of 1971-72 which stated that their intent of pushing gay marriage was to destroy the family. They have stated that the family is the reason why they are oppressed. “The very form of the family works against homosexuality.”
  
  They also wanted to put down Christianity as the dominant influence calling it archaic and
  
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- CGray
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:27am
  RayDocx, “The Separation Of Church And State” is not in the Constitution. It was a part of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the head of the Danbury Baptist Association during his campaign. The pastor was worried about rumors that the Catholics, Congregationalists and others were trying to position their denomination as a state religion. Thomas Jefferson promised in the letter that, if he became President, he would not let that happen.
  
  The Constitution promises the freedom OF religion. Not freedom FROM religion which is what the separation of church and state phrase is used for.
  
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- CGray
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:31am
  (This is the rest of the statement I made above)
  
  They also wanted to put down Christianity as the dominant influence calling it archaic and irrational.
  
  In fact the gay movement was started by the Mattachine Society which was founded by Communists, members of the Communist Party of America. The mission of communists in America has always been to destroy belief in God, destroy morality, destroy the family, and destroy the economy.
  
  “The movement by gays to infiltrate the Republican Party is either a deliberate deception, or an oxymoron that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.” (Ryan Sorba, chairman of the California Young Americans for Freedom). GOProud, for example, supports most of Obamas stand on social issues.
  
  It is also important to point out the connection between homosexuals and pedophiles. This relationship goes all the way back to the 60′s with the alliance between the gay movement and NAMBLA. In fact, today, pedophiles are using the same tactics that gays used in the 70′s to remove the stigma against pedophilia by enlisting the help of the American Psychological Society.
  
  The way to win the debate about gay marriage is not to accept it, but to expose it. That means diving into its history and sharing with the masses how gay marriage will impact their children, their businesses, their churches, their own personal freedom, and their bank accounts. SE Cupp doesn’t understand that.
  
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- wyowumin
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:31am
  S.E. Cupp is, in my opinion, Meghan McCain with a brain–sort of. She’s an arrogant, know-it-all, snot who takes herself and her “brilliant” opinions far too seriously. She’s the reason I won’t watch Real News.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:05am
  @CGray
  
  “RayDocx, “The Separation Of Church And State” is not in the Constitution.”
  
  I know you replied to RayDocx, but let me take a crack at this.
  
  Marriage isn’t in the Constitution either – yet the Supreme Court has held up the right to marry. It has also upheld the separation of church and state. If your sole basis of argument is the wording of the Constitution and you ignore over 200 years of Supreme Court rulings, you’re missing out on a lot of history. By using your reasoning, DOMA is unconstitutional because the Constitution doesn’t give the US government the right to define marriage as one-man, one-woman.
  
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- wilsonj72
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:09pm
  She is grand standing within six month to another year in MSNBC she will be so irreverent like Joe(RINO).
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:20pm
  Gay people want to be “Married” because they think that will make them more acceptable. They are defying the natural order (regardless of why) and yet they want their ABNORMAL to be NORMAL. Sorry, the gay life style is NOT normal. How they deal with it is THEIR business, but they can’t take OUR word and expect it to be alright. It’s not.
  S.E. Culp is really wrong on this. The GOP doesn’t have to bend their values just to attract more people. TRUTH IS TRUTH. RIGHT IS RIGHT. GOOD IS GOOD. IF the Gay people out there want to place their vote on the strength of ONE ISSUE then they’re nuts. It won’t matter what you are when the whole Nation looks like Detroit.
  IF the Gays want a Permanent Union…super. Get your own word. Since there are only about 6 % of you out there, don’t try to push your life-style on my kids..YEARS before I would even begin to discuss sex with them. I don’t tell you to STOP being GAY. I don’t understand it, I am not thrilled by it, but You have to work out your own lives with GOD. BUT S.E.: Why stop with GAYS…why don’t we open our party up to Socialists ? Communists ? What’s the difference?
  
  BTW. OBAMA is just insanity walking. Listening to him is like a fingernail on a chalkboard. We know he’s lying. We know he’s totally corrupt. We know he thinks he is so smart he’s going to fool us. We know he hates the USA and the only reason he’s ‘helping ” anyone is for their vote.
  
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- epepep
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:42pm
  I have heard Rush claim all the Repubs have to do is stay true to their ultra-conservative social policies, their “core principles” and they will win. I do not believe he is correct. I think there are about 35 – 40 percent, tops of inflexible social conservatives. There is another 30 percent in the middle whom that attitude bothers or even scares. I share the ultra conservative values, but I think we are scaring off the middle ground voters by making abortion, gay marriage, etc., into “make or break” issues. We need those middle ground voters to WIN the elections!
  And there are much more important issues than gay marriage and abortion: nearly 17 trillion deficit, high unemployment, decreasing real income, looming bankruptcy for medicare. If we don’t start winning elections, we cannot save America from financial disaster.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:59pm
  @CGNICK
  
  >>You sound like Ann Coulter saying she won’t consider legalization of marijuana until we eliminate the welfare state.<>The problem with you and People like Ann is you have no principle.<>Are you afraid one of your kids or family are going to come out of the closet?<<
  
  Not worried a bit … I love my two extended family members regardless of their sexual confusion … I treat them no different than if they were engaged in serial adultery, or promiscuity… both are of a compulsive sexual nature, and both are very unhealthy and harmful. There's not condoning the behavior, but it doesn't mean I cease to love them ether.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:01pm
  (CONTINUED … @CGNICK
  
  >>Are you afraid one of your kids or family are going to come out of the closet?<>Will you hate them or blame it on imaginary ideas like satin?<>What is your beef with the constitution and equal rights to all?<<
  
  Equal rights doesn'tme an equal behavior … Same-sex marriage is not about civil rights. It’s about validation and social respect. It is a radical attempt at civil engineering using government muscle to strong-arm the people into accommodating a lifestyle many find deeply offensive, contrary to nature, socially destructive and would infringe on the fundamental right of conscience.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:19pm
  (CONTINUING @CGNICK)
  
  “”You sound like Ann Coulter saying she won’t consider legalization of marijuana until we eliminate the welfare state.”"
  
  What about sexual “BEHAVIOR” don’t you understand?? Behaviors are not equal. And many are not recognized by society as something we should encourage and have our children emulate. Harmful, aberrant sexual behavior is one of them … such as homosexuality. Engaging in that behavior results in body trauma, and higher rates of infections of multiple kinds. … even when in (so called) monogamous relationships. Encouraging homosexuality is like encouraging promiscuity. Nether are healthy.
  
  “”The problem with you and People like Ann is you have no principle.”"
  
  If having no principles means being totally against having some folks demand that gov force me and mine into validating their aberrant sexual proclivity … than yep! I have no principles.
  
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- cgnick
  Posted on March 3, 2013 at 10:18pm
  @NATIVE54
  Oh I see. We should make laws that contradict the constitution based upon your opinion of what is an unacceptable “behavior” that “many find deeply offensive.”
  
  I’m sure glad it doesn’t work that way or we might still have Jim Crow laws in effect.
  
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- TrueBlueAmerican1
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:24pm
  Time and time again, S.E. Cupp proves to reader’s of The Blaze that she is simply a liberal who has some conservative fiscal views. She is not a conservative, and certainly not a republican.
  
  If you’re a true conservative, you can’t be a disgusting athiest pig, which is what all athiests are- disgusting, self-righteous liberal pigs who think everyone is a fool but them and their lot. Sad people who, on their deathbeds, will inevitably come to the terrifying realization that they may have been wrong. I pray for them that on that day, when that time comes, they can find the strength to reach out to our Father and that he shows his mercy.
  
  The Republican Party believes in God the Almighty, from whom man’s natural rights are endowed. These natural rights are the basis of our Constituion, and the basis for conservative worldview. If you’re an athiest, then you can’t believe in natural rights and therefore your worldview is Utopian and you are a liberal. So, the fact that she is an athiest presuposses the question of whether or not she is conservative- she can’t be, because she doesn’t believe in God or natural rights. An athiest simply views man as an aminal, the same as any other mammal. Mammals in nature give up there freedom and individual liberty to the all powerful “leader of the pack.” This is what Utopians think everyone should do- give up your individual liberty to the all powerful Leviathan, who will maintain order and compliance of the pack (the
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:24am
“But we allow for nuanced differences of opinion on fiscal issues, national security, foreign policy and elsewhere without questioning each others’ conservative credentials. We should allow for differences of opinion on gay marriage as well.”

Sorry Essy, but we do not allow nuanced differences that go against the principal stands without question. If we need to allow, just to enjoy the added vote, then we jeopardize ever taking the concrete stand on truth.

I don’t follow essy… actually never did.

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- Chazael
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:21pm
  I said this above, but it belongs here with a hearty amen! Once you start from a different root you find yourself producing different fruit (Luke 6:43).
  
  “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!” Matt 18:7
  
  If you want to uphold/place a stumbling block, because you believe someone has a right to trip over it… woe to you. Nor is that the Spirit of Christ working in and through you, but rather the spirit of the world.
  
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sbenard
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23am
SE is what happens when people give up their faith and God as the foundations of their guiding principles. She has accepted many important principles of freedom, but rejected the foundations thereof. That just leads to a gradual meltdown of values and apostasy of principles. I stand with God, not SE!

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- VaARNG_Guardsman
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:37am
  Huh Huh….SE Cupp has lost her conservative prophetic voice.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:58am
  What you folks fail to grasp, in a general election,
  what you would consider the PERFECT conservative,
  could never get elected.
  
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- Fed up in Bama
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 2:18pm
  Don’t be surprisedwhen Glenn comes out in support of Gay Marriage.He’s pushing it. Look at all the stories on ‘The Blaze’. Yesterday, gospel singing group. Today, Clint Eastwood asks for overturn. And of course we have S.E. Cupp.
  Note to Glenn: Conservatives have nothing against ‘gay ppl’. Sin is sin. BUT….that doesn’t mean that we HAVE to embrace ‘gay marriage’. To do so is against God. Wake up. Ppl are using you. ……. AND, a lot of us have about had enough of stripe changing to last us a life-time. Either believe in God or not.
  
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- cgnick
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:24am
  @FED UP IN BAMA
  “Note to Glenn: Conservatives have nothing against ‘gay ppl’. Sin is sin. BUT….that doesn’t mean that we HAVE to embrace ‘gay marriage’. To do so is against God.”
  
  Embracing gay marriage and denying a group of Americans equal rights are two different things. To impede on someones rights because you think it is a sin is not what our constitution stands for. In the US our constitution guarantees equal rights to all Americans. If you want religious rule maybe you will be more happy with the Saudi Arabia. the Taliban or 16th century England.
  
  It’s my opinion that the government shouldn’t be in marriage business at all. Since it is, it should apply equally to all citizens. If you are an adult of sound mind, can take oath and sign the marriage license there is no reason that you can’t get married.
  
  Glenn Beck is really coming around as a Libertarian. He is embracing freedom for all and leaving constitution hating conservatism behind.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:55pm
  @sbenard
  
  So the “foundation” of freedom is for the government–whether state or federal–to dictate whether or not two consenting adults can get married or not? Cons are funny–they rail against big government, except when it comes to things they don’t like, and then they think the government should be able to go right ahead and interject itself.
  
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ConcernedONETOO
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23am
What the hell is an S.E. anyway?? Next……….

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hunter1riley
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23am
So tired of this bigotry. If someone wants to be gay then that’s between him and God. Politically it has nothing to do with me. I won’t validate their choice but if that’s how they want to live then it doesn’t effect me one way or the other. In fact, get the government out of marriage in the first place. Evangelicals holding the GOP hostage over this issue helps the left (staying home rather than voting) and their drive to socialism, which by the way, will result in less religious freedom if history continues to rhyme.

That said, I think Cupp need to suck it up and attend CPAC. She’s a voice on the right that needs to be heard. Perhaps being on the inside will effect more positive change than harping on the outside.

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- NigelTufnel
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:29am
  Yep!
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:32am
  Yeah ,any pedophiles you want to let watch your kids ?
  Just another perversion ,maybe someday some clown will call
  anyone a bigot for pointing of them out too.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:04am
  “Evangelicals holding the GOP hostage…..”
  
  Good lord I wish I had dollar for every time I heard this nonsense. Yea, we’re holding them hostage alright. If by holding them hostage you mean, voting our principles. Here’s the dirty little secret you probably hate but know to be true. We are the overwhelming base of the Republican party. And believe me, they throw us under the bus every chance they get. You don’t like it? Vote Democrat. Of course Democrats are held hostage by godless baby-killers and the Libertarian party is held hostage by drugged up pot-smokers so I guess we all have our hang-ups huh?
  
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- tajloc
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:38am
  They cheat Gay marriage is not a legitimate issue
  Every Christian welcomes Gays into the church BUT some actions are sins…You may come into church but to sit with God you must be repentant and try to change. That means you must see the sin of homosexual acts.
  Oh and you don’t get to redefine marriage…call is civil union and fight for your rights. I might even join that fight. Marriage is between …….
  
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- libertarianchristian
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:14pm
  @hoot….pedophilia is different than homsexuality, there are plenty of hetero pedos out there. and as for homosexuality being a sin, so is premarital sex, masturbation, casting judgement on our fellow man, coverting someone elses property, in some circles swearing, and a whole host of other things, i am sure you partake in seeing as you are not jesus and only he was perfect. not saying you have to love homosexuals or anything of the sort, but accept that they exist and let the matters that involve only them and god matter only to them and god. ironically that is why the right in this country falls towards fascism, they are more often moral fascists where the left are political fascists. the republicans may try to ‘keep govt out of your busines…’ but then out of nowhere, its okay to make you do what they think is right or keep you from doing something they think is wrong based on their own morality. thus taking away any credibility of any argument they give.
  
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- rosegrower
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:41pm
  @Hoot_Owl
  Gays aren’t all pedophiles, and straights aren’t always pristine – there have been plenty of cases in which a male teacher has had sex with his preteen female students. Actually, the issue of gay marriage has taken root because straights – and allegedly religious straights – have made such a hash of marriage that now, anything looks normal. Evangelicals let their kids shack up, then try to coerce their pastor into letting them have a church wedding. Allegedly religious people look the other way when their daughters get pregnant out of wedlock or their sons impregnate someone out of wedlock. We actually use the term “marriage” to describe what Britney Spears did with her high-school sweetie in Las Vegas while in a drunken stupor. Perhaps the conservatives who aren’t walking the walk with regard to marriage had better get their own houses in order before they start critiquing other peoples’ relationships. BTW, I know of several gay people who KNOW what a disaster Obama and the democrats have been to this country – gays included – and they would LOVE to be allied with the conservative movement.
  
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- Dalcron
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:42pm
  Well said, Hunter. I’ve been saying for a long time I have no issues with gay marriage. I have all sorts problems with the government being involved in ANY marriage, be it straight or gay. Marriage is inherently the purview of the church. Always has been, always will be. The great thing about this country is the freedom of religion. So if you find a church that sanctifies same sex marriage, then join them. When it comes down to it, talking with gay friends, most of the arguments for same sex marriage is for the government and medical benefits (taxes and the right to visit hospitalized partners etc). Government should not be involved in marriage in any way shape or form.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 3:02pm
  libertarianchristian
  Are you one of the many people who have quoted Matthew 7:1 flippantly at someone telling them, “You aren’t supposed to judge anyone”? If so, you are wrong and in fact, you may have made a wrong judgment about the person you told that to. Many of you have probably been taught as I was that judging is wrong, but in reality it is often the responsibility of a Christian.
  
  http://www.obeygod.com/judgenot.html
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 4:38pm
  What is interesting is that ‘gay” does affect you. It affects your taxes. Your health care premiums. It affects the courts. It does affect you. Just what do you want to pay for? What do you not want to pay for? What “gay” costs are being passed to you? Plenty. So, wake up. Those of us who don’t want to “pay” for anything “gay” are simply exercising our rights. Like when we all found out that Planned Parenthood received millions of taxpayer dollars to give females their abortions. I don’t want to pay for that or their birth control? They are “liberated” women right? They can get a dam job and pay for their own dam abortions and birth control. When I found out that Starbucks Coffee gives a portion of their profits to Planned Parenthood I stopped drinking their coffee. I don’t have to support a dam penny of my taxes to people or companies I don’t agree with or don’t want to support. It is just that simple.
  
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- barryswhitehalf
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:59pm
  Gay people have civil unions and have legal protection from discrimination and hate (thought) crimes. But liberals won’t be happy until they shove their sexual behavior down people’s throats, esp. children’s (see: required LGBT studies in CA public schools).
  Whenever homosexual sexual behavior is wholeheartedly accepted, religious freedom is always attacked and marginalized.
  Gay marriage affected the Catholic Adoption Services of Massachussetts. They were forced to close down or give babies to homosexuals against their beliefs. It affected a baker in Iowa who didn’t want to bake a cake for a lesbian couple, so he and his business were threatened and bullied. It affected the Episcopal Wedding facility in New Jersey that didn’t want to host a gay civil union reception so they were targeted for harassment and threats.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:14am
  @ ROSEGROWER
  
  (QUOTE) … “”BTW, I know of several gay people who KNOW what a disaster Obama and the democrats have been to this country – gays included, and they would LOVE to be allied with the conservative movement.”"
  
  Then they need to stop demanding that same-sex marriage, and civil unions be equated with historical marriage … the foundational cornerstone of every civilization from time immemorial. Homosexuality does not comport with Natural law. Which the founders referenced often.
  
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- ihasa
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 6:19pm
  Funny that right-wing Christians condemn homosexuals as promiscuous, yet try to deny rights to those that choose to settle down in a stable exclusive relationship.
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23am
There is nothing GAY about H0mosexuality..!
It’s a perversion and unnatural behavior that these Perverts
Who embrace this kind of lifestyle and are DECEPTIVELY
using ‘marriage’ as a means to establish…

That their lifestyle….Is a ‘divinely excepted lifestyle’

Knowing this first ..
THAT IT WAS GOD WHO MADE MARRIAGE.!

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- GOPROUD
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:40am
  Hoot, first off, you are a very ignorant person if you think that people who are gay want to touch your children. That is rude, ignorant and completely false and makes you look like the idiot you are. God will judge you as well. You are not perfect. You are a sinner in the eyes of God. And just as you cast judgment on others and talk trash god will take that into account on your day. YOu think he roots you on to say disgusting things about other people that are false? Think again. Your day is coming.
  
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- GOPROUD
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:51am
  In all honesty HOOT! you are probably the pervert who tries to get close to your neighbors and family members kids. Im sure you already have. Im sure you wife, if you even have one, wonders why you act so weird around your kids. She probably wonders why your kids never look her in the eyes or have closeness issues.. You have probably ruined little tommy an sussies lives cuz you touched them you sick pervert! I think you should get some help. I would never let a pervert like you anywhere near children. I hope the authorities are aware of you actions.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 2:59pm
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/27/parents-of-transgender-6-year-old-raise-complaint-against-school-banning-child-from-using-girls-restroom/
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 3:00pm
  I wish we could talk face to face..!
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 3:09pm
  Are you one of the many people who have quoted Matthew 7:1 flippantly at someone telling them, “You aren’t supposed to judge anyone”? If so, you are wrong and in fact, you may have made a wrong judgment about the person you told that to. Many of you have probably been taught as I was that judging is wrong, but in reality it is often the responsibility of a Christian.
  
  http://www.obeygod.com/judgenot.html
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 3:16pm
  GOPROUD
  Your perversion has rotted your thought process ,
  please seek help before its to late.
  
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- GOPROUD
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 5:15pm
  Get help before it’s too late? Give me a break! You choose what you want to believe out of the bible. You have selective hearing and thought process when it comes to the bible. You have the right to choose and think what you want, no matter how ignorant it makes you. What was it Kerry said, Americans have the right to be stupid? I never agree with that man, but clearly you have made his point. interpret it however you think your little brain should but you are not a perfect christian and chances are you are going to hell along with the rest of the hypocritical christians. I would rather spend an eternity in hell than spend one second in heaven with self righteous POS like you who think they are perfect.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 7:43pm
  goproud
  I do not want you to spend eternity in hell. Please understand what I mean. Your using the
  same taking points the h0mosexual community has been parroting for years.
  
  Although our government is trying to legislate what to consider normal is in this country . They will never be able to change how God looks at any kind of sin . They might as well be giving equality to ANY sin .
  
  So if that’s all you want is for a government to except your way of life. , I believe your going to get your wish the way the direction this country is headed.
  
  But deep down I believe most h0mosexuals desire , is more than that and that’s why we are having such a confrontation in this country.
  
  It’s about changing how Christians perceive h0mosexuality And the only way this can be done, is change the Christian view on sin and more to the point . How the God we worship views it.
  
  But for a Christian to say that any sin is acceptable , is to betray our God ,who tells us he’s the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and what God views as sin a thousand years ago .God views as sin a thousand years in the future .
  
  So if we start making allowances we put our own soul at risk. .
  
  I view ANY Christians that start accepting ANY SIN.. as ‘departing from the faith’ And then THEY risk THEIR own soul in doing so. Not just the people that are committing the sin.
  
  I hope you can at least understand now why as Christians ,we stand so firm on our belief ..
  
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- suzykistaken
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:05pm
  You are absolutely correct and I agree with you…it is unnatural, not of God and one of Satan’s greatest tools. If they would just use control in their thoughts and actions there would be no “gay” at all. They are deceptive and their thoughts and actions are dangerous for our children, grandchildren.
  
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Touchy Touchy Touchy
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:22am
you simple minded bible thumping so called conservatives, complain about the direction of the country and how the democrats are ruining it. But at the same time, your homophobic pronouncements insure that the idiot democrats will stay in power.

You are to bigoted to get out of your own way.

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- TheSurrealTruth
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:35am
  Yeah, that’ll change hearts and minds.
  
  Not sure calling people “bigots” is the best way to convince them of your position. I agree that many Conservatives are waaaay too dogmatic, but talking down to them won’t change a thing. In fact, it’ll only make it worse.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:37am
  This county has a moral bar that should not be lowered to your skewed belief.
  
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- richauthor
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:51am
  ‘Sorry, but you’ve got to understand the difference between TO and TOO to join this discussion.
  
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- BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:05am
  @Touchy- Gotta agree with you. We have to lose all the dogma before it kills us. The gay genie is out of the bottle just like the abortion genie. I don’t agree with either, but shunning people, potential political allies, will do the cause of liberty great harm. I love me some God, but I also believe in reality. Homosexuality and abortion are symtoms of the “grinding down of America”, there is no doubt. We need to focus on the disease, not the symptoms. With perserverance, the symptoms will subside in due course. This is not gay bashing, I just don’t care what two people I don’t know do in their private lives, not one bit. I care about liberty and freedom, and continuing to harp on those already infected by the agenda helps nothing. It only distracts us from the fight at hand. My God knows of the agenda, he ain’t holding grudges, He’s a “big picture” guy.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:16am
  So the genius here who started off by saying – “you simple minded bible thumping so called conservatives…”
  
  Finished it off by saying – “You are to bigoted to get out of your own way.”
  
  Funny how Christophobes never see the irony of their childish rants.
  
  Listen up little man cause I’m gonna ‘splain this once. We don’t hate gays. I personally know gays and am friendly with them. They are nice to me and I’m nice to them. I don’t think marriage can exist in the same sex because my God says so. Now, I would by a hypocrite if I claimed to believe the Bible and then be for gay marriage. If God was for it, I would be for it. But He’s not so, I’m not. I’m not against homosexuals. I’m against homosexuality because the God I claim to worship is against it. But the same God also commands me to be compassionate toward everyone. Compassion does not mean I lay down my conviction. Jesus was compassionate to the harlot but then told her to “Go and send no more” Comprende’?
  
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- barryswhitehalf
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:02pm
  The anti-Christian zealots that run around spouting it’s about “hate” and “homophobia” purposefully misrepresents the true nature of the issue, and such a person is trapped in their own bias and bigotry.
  Sad
  
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- Touchy Touchy Touchy
  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:44am
  @ richauthor, yes I realized I used “to” rather than “too” after I posted it. It was incredibly important to point that out.
  
  @ squidvetohio, careful I beleive it is “sin no more” not “send no more”. richauthor will call you out on that typo, after all that’s the point, right?
  
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Voice of Reason
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:17am
Wasn’t one of the official sponsors of last year’s CPAC a gay republican group? Or was it year before last?

While I have mixed feelings about this issue…….I think for govt. to “rule” on this is an over reach and not one of its duties………AND I have a gay family member……….YET, we as a nation are drifting father and farther from our “roots” and a case can be made that some of our ills as a society are a direct product of this “drift”.

It seems that there should be a “mechanism” in place that would afford gay people in a relationship all the rights afforded straight couples without hanging the marriage tag on it thereby delving into the religious aspects of the union.

If this truly is simply about affording folks the right to visit a loved one in the hospital, share in benefits, etc. thaen there seemingly is an easy compromise. But I fear that there is far more involved here and much of that has to do with rubbing a certain segment of the populations nose in something.

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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:26am
  Do you think the fed should stay out of the definition of marriage and let it up to the state?
  On this one issue, I say keep marriage as defined.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:55am
  Walnut: Can’t we just leave our traditions alone? I agree. Undermine the beliefs of a country then take it over is a progressive idea!
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:56am
  I have sympathy for anyone denied a visit to a loved on in a hospital or has to fight for inheritance willed them, etc.
  
  Changing marriage is a band-aide fix for those kind of problems. Let’s reform laws to respect the rights and wishes of our fellow citizens. We do not need to change the institution of marriage to fix inequality.
  
  Marriage gets special status because we believe that the pairing of one male with one female is the correct way to propagate our country and our species. I am against laws preventing anyone from shacking up with whomever they chose, but I hold marriage up as the example we desire most.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:05am
  @Voice
  
  “Wasn’t one of the official sponsors of last year’s CPAC a gay republican group? Or was it year before last?”
  
  In 2011 GOProud helped sponsor CPAC. It ticked off so many social conservatives that they were ousted from co-sponsoring last year, though told that the group could still attend.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:07pm
  If God says NO it stays NO
  
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cjelephant
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:17am
Hey Blaze – stop giving this woman so much coverage. I know – she wears heavy-rimmed glasses, so she MUST be smart, right?

Cupp’s position on this issue is idiotic. She says Republicans shouldn’t be bullied into accepting gay marriage but they must embrace gay republicans and republicans who support gay martriage.

No. Wrong. Idiotic.

The supporters of gay marriage within the conservative movement are a tiny minority. If Cupp wants to be part of the minority – go for it! But in a political movement the minority movement looks for ways to agree with the majority.

In other words, pro-homosexual republicans are going to have to find ways to be happy agreeing with conservatives on a lot of issues – but they will not get agreement on homosexual buffoonery.

It is absurd to say “well teh majority is going to have to find ways to appeal to every minority position”

This will FRACTURE the party!

The conservative movement is not going to throw out Christians and Christian morality to make S.E. Cupp and her homosexual friends happy. It is NOT happening.

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- joey g
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:27am
  right on…she is a do-do..who cares what she thinks….ass bandits belong at the dem/commie hdgts..
  
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- MDECKER
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:35am
  NEWSFLASH ! The Party is already Fractured! Since Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party has actually melded into a sub-set of the Democrat Party. There is no difference between John McCain and Harry Reid.
  
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glegakis
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:15am
Breaking News! S. E. Cupp has mad skills on water skies as she jumps the proverbial shark. Adios amiga.

She caught MSNBC disease. Let’s hope the rest of Beck’s crew doesn’t catch it.

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- zorro
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:23am
  We all knew it was just a matter of time before she did.
  
  “I’m a conservative who believes that keeping the government out of my private life on a whole host of issues is totally consistent with supporting gay rights…”
  
  A true Libertarian doesn’t want the governmnet to take a stance on the issue let alone give a small percentage of the population special treatment. Get the government out of marriage. Without government protection, society would take care to stop this “gay marriage” garbage.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:08am
  Glegakis,
  
  Correct. I sometimes observe that liberalism takes on viral form. Extended contact can cause deminished mental capacity.
  
  SE will now go the way of Brock from 90′s after he came out and joined the liberal press. Many will say who’s David Brock? Exactly.
  
  SE did not recognize her audience. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
  
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Budrow
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:15am
I had to look her up to see who she was. I found out she is a nobody. A Republican Atheist nobody, that’s all. Also hooked to MSNBC I think. Shes a nice lookin’ babe but is she gay? That would be a shame.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:11am
I like S.E. but I will not change my belief for her. God made Adam and Eve for a purpose and if you stop and think about the way each cell in our body works (if it didn’t I wouldn’t have the ability to be keyboarding this) and each cell and part has a purpose. A group of controversial people does not have to be at every event. God gave each person freewill but that does not mean we have to change our beliefs and values to satisfy a group.

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:24am
  That’s right.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:34am
  I have enjoyed listening to her in the past, but I have told friends she will come out and that is going to be the problem and it will be marriage.
  
  Republicans across the country including here in oregon passed “civil union” laws allowing same sex couples. Union is a government term and is legal. Activist want the government though to define the religious term marriage. That term was defined by God in all major religions. Government wants the power to over ride God. That is the division.
  
  It is that fundamental ability for the left to ban the bible that they are looking for. This is why bibles cannot be carried or see in public in Canada for example. Culp is taking up with those that want the Republican Party to officially split, that would allow permanent leftist control of the US.
  
  Religion and liberalism cannot coexist. That is the problem, that is the trap. Once government has the ability to come into a house of worship and enforce civil rights, it’s over. That is the goal. I know this because Oregons new speaker of the house has stated that. During her swearing in, we heard an “official government prayer”. I have been trying to get a copy to put on you tube. If you do not believe in the war on God, you will change your mind.
  
  Christianity is on the rise would wide, that is what is forcing the issue. Culp has stated that she is an atheist. The two do not mesh.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:59am
  groan.
  
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- Live2BeFree
  Posted on March 2, 2013 at 4:05am
  Here’s the thing…God dont run this country. We have a Constitution that you all say to follow. Well show me where in the Constitution is says marriage is a man and woman. It doesnt. Since when is the Republican Party Christian only. WHOA! There’s YOUR problem….you seem to think that is the only religion that matters. Hypocrisy at its finest. Have fun losing the next several election until you become “saved” by the Libertarians.
  
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searching for the Truth
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:08am
You’re just a wittle girl.

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:06am
Perhaps the best Republican response to the hot potato of gay unions would be ‘That should be left up to the states to decide’ followed by an expression of personal belief. The feds dont need to be involved in regulating perversion between consenting adults.

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- NigelTufnel
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:27am
  Bingo! Fiscal responsibility and King Dollar policies should trump everything! I am as Catholic as the day is long but I could care less about gay marriage. I would rather the gay community be able to grow in wealth and individuality then cater to fears of the evangelicals. Who the bleep are they gonna vote for instead? Or maybe there are a lot of people in the evangelical crowd that like their free-stuff and the hard-stance on faith has kept them voting for conservatives instead. This is a bold move for S.E. It will take time but I really believe it’s the correct move in the long run.
  
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- Native54
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:50pm
  Why would be want to endorse, and embrace a sexual behavior that is so unhealthy for those who engage in it … one of the tactics in Kirk & Madsen’s bk, After the Ball, was to talk openly and loudly about victimization, and discrimination … and NEVER talk or engage about what homosexuals do. We embrace and endorse this aberrant sexual behavior, and in doing so, we inadvertently invite our kids to do sexual experiment with this harmful, aberrant sexual behavior. Don’t believe it’s harmful? Here we go … http://gayterribletruth.wordpress.com/category/medical/ …
  
  JUST A “FEW” EXAMPLES OF HOW HOMOSEXUALITY PICKS ONES POCKET, AND BREAKS ONES LEG ….
  
  “We found that even if homosexuals behave the same way heterosexuals do — in terms of sexual partner numbers — homosexuals would still have a huge HIV epidemic,” Dr. Goodreau said Universities of Washington and New York Sexually Transmitted Infections Journal
  Sept. 13 2010 http://www.drugs.com/news/number-partn
  ers-doesn-t-explain-gay-hiv-rate-9307.html
  
  Study: HIV-positive Practicing Homosexual Men 9000% More Likely to Develop Anal Cancer http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/1338/27/
  
  Drug Resistant Gonorrhea Originates in Men engaging in homosexual Sex, April 13, 2007
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201497.html
  
  Syphilis rates epidemic on homosexual sex, 13 March 2008
  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/mar/13/syphilis-rates-up-on-gay-male-s
  
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PeteOH
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:03am
As a party, we can support equal rights for gays WITHOUT inventing new ones or redefining anything! They can vote, work, own property whatever..We don’t need to support gay marriage or gays being forced on the rest of the military to be generally supportive. Don’t forget, this is simply a sexual preference. *** Why do we let Libs dictate the narrative on this? There is NO gay marriage. In every corner of the globe, in every culture, in every religion in all of history, there has NEVER been gay marriage. You wanna live together… fine! It’s no marriage. However, to be fair, gays DO have the right to marry Someone of the opposite sex, just like we all do! So, this is all about a sexual preference and abnormalities. Keep marriage as is and traditional. Don’t back down. Take a stand! We can tolerate gays. We don’t have to change our morals, traditions, history, definitions & culture to do so.Trying to redefine issues to assert your right is like. HERE! I’m a straight guy trying who talk his wife into threesomes with hot nannies! If you deny me, then you are a hater! It’s just who I am. I’ve know it for years. I’m a “nannysexual” and I demand my rights. Redefine marriage to include my wife and I marrying a smokin’ hot nanny! Yeah… that’s the idea!There is a societal benefit from heterosexual marriage. It’s called PROCREATION! Gay marriage can’t offer that. There is NO gay marriage. Plus, to show my appreciation to society, I promise to procreate wit

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- TheCalvinistPastor
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:35am
  Very well put! This is a slippery slope. The other side will use labels and bully us into not only tollerating thier sexual perversions, they want to normalize, and even have us celebrate it!
  
  Im sorry, but Im not making a show of my sexuality, nor am I having Strait parades, or forcing people to celebrate my religious convictions on Marriage between a man and a woman.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:28am
  Great post.
  
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willbedone
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:03am
Being Gay is an abomination, God said it, I believe it. It is NOT a complex issue.
If you are a fiscal conservative, that is the issue. If you are a progressive, that is the issue.

Remember the KISS rule, You can’t go wrong.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:00am
  You lose this debate bring your god into it.
  Now and fore ever,
  
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- GOPROUD
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:00pm
  I think divorce is also forbiden in the bible but none you go after that. Cheating on your spouse as well. So shouldnt all of you try to help get legislation passed banning it?
  
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- termyt
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:51pm
  It’s not the Conservatives that made divorce simple and took away the legal ramifications for adultery.
  
  Once upon a time, adultery was one of few grounds for divorce with the settlement granting little to the adulterer. No you can have divorce for any reason and adultery has little affect on the settlement.
  I can also think of a rather successful and powerful Speaker of the House forced to resign during the Clinton presidency for marital unfaithfulness.
  
  To say Conservatives don’t care about divorce and adultery is to show an utter lack of knowledge of even recent events.
  
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Shock30
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:03am
Should be a politician. Speaks out of both sides of the mouth. I’m a conservative…but I believe this…wait….what?!

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- lawrench
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:22am
  I feel my political leanings are more conservative than progressive, however lately, I find myself more libertarian. Why is it my business what consenting adults do behind closed doors? The problem that I have with the Gay Movement is not that they want to be treated as people, it is that they want to be confrontational about being Gay.
  
  When I think about the current events of the day, I ask myself what does the Holy Bible say? I keep finding myself remembering render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars, and Obey the laws of the land. What I take from these is that my money, my possesions, are not as important as my soul. My soul belongs to God. Even Jesus obeyed mans law, as we must do as well. So if the government says two people of the same sex can be married, then that is what we have to live with… Again, what two consenting adults do in their own privacy is none of my business.
  
  One last thought:
  King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
  Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven
  
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- Shock30
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Lawrench,
  You and I agree on some things, however, I don’t agree with you 100%. If we are to be Christ followers, then we need to look at the bible in its entirety and not pick and choose arguments to fit our needs. John 7:25 Commands us not to judge according to appearance but judge with righteous judgment. So, going by what the bible preaches, we judge by those standards, not my own.
  In reference to give Ceasar what is Ceasars….Act 5:29. We must obey God rather than men. However, we should point out that even then, Peter and John submitted to the government and was flogged.
  My point being, if we don’t stand up to anything or keep a standard, then how low with that standard go, if we become apathetic, where does it stop?
  What people do behind closed doors; you are correct, it is none of my business, that’s between them and God. However, when it becomes part of a community forcing change, then it is my business to take a stand as it should be for all Christ followers. Thank you for your comment.
  
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- barryswhitehalf
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 6:07pm
  It’s clear gay apologists cherry-pick many parts of scripture that suit their agenda but that seemingly goes hand in hand with what many dishonest leftists are doing these days.
  If you read the lie that Jesus never said anything regarding homosexual marriage so that must make it okay, right?
  Not really
  Jesus also never said anything about rape, incest or domestic violence. Are those things okay?
  There are many teachings and deeds of Christ that are not included in the Gospel accounts, as John writes in John 21:25.
  Christ did say that God created people “in the beginning” as male and female, and that marriage is the union of one man and one woman joined together as “one flesh.” (Matthew 19:4-6 and Mark 10:6-9) Nothing whatsoever else is said about any other type of union.
  When Jesus discussed sexual morality, Christ had a very high standard, clearly affirming long-standing Jewish law. He told the woman caught in adultery to “Go and sin no more.” John 8:11. Jesus warned people not only that the act of adultery was wrong, but even adulterous thoughts. Matthew 5:28
  And he shamed the woman at the well John 4:18 by pointing out to her that he knew she was living with a man who was not her husband. Finally, the apostles, who were taught by Christ, clearly understood that homosexuality was sin as it has always been. When ppl say, “Jesus said nothing about homosexuality or marriage,” they reveal that they have never understood Scripture beyond the usual liber
  
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Hope07
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:01am
Aww, and it was so good of you to make that announcement on MSNBC.

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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:00am
So much for picking straight from the tree instead of the basket.
I’m getting sick of seeing this godless culture high-jacking our way of life.
They should conform to our moral structure or start their own godless country that embraces perversions and unnatural behavior. Then they can dress their children up any perverted way they want.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:58am
Let me quote Hans Hunt from Wyoming, “By all means, leave.”

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- neverending
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:08am
  Yes please and better still shut up and better still blaze stop giving this koolaid drinker more attention.
  
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- Small World
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 11:15am
  I’ll second that! S(orry) E(xcuse) can leave ASAP!
  
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am123
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:53am
It is not a complex social debate. It’s very simple. Homosexuality is perversion. We, as country, much less the GOP, should not be promoting perversion.

Homosexuality is the antithesis to what our country was founded upon, God and Biblical principles. We are fighting for the survival of our nation and we should not be thumbing our noses at God by supporting and promoting perversion.

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- moreteaplease
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:06am
  That’s right! You can’t have it both ways like Lot’s wife wanted.
  
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- richauthor
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:30am
  Very well put.
  
  As I said before, if you are left-handed and you make the rest of us change something about our lives to accomodate you, then I am patently against you… same as if a person is gay. Just don’t try to force it down my throat.
  
  I am a life-long Christian and do not believe the sacred rite of marriage should be changed to accomodate gays. I AM, however, all for coming up with a civil contract of some sort that will ensure equal rights to both individuals in the relationship… regardless of their sexual proclivities.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:51am
“As far as her CPAC decision goes, she informed the organizers before making her public statement on MSNBC.”

Looks like she would feel really at home there at MSNBC. I’m done hearing about her. I’m also done voting for the GOP. CPAC doesn’t have republican in the title, does it, SE? She’s just another John McLame, saying the GOP needs to be Socialist Lite to win.

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Budrow
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:49am
So…Who is she and is she a lesbian too?

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:00am
  She is to The Blaze what Juan Williams is to Fox News, a foil, at worse an Agent Provocateur. And every other lesbian in America hopes she is one too….
  
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gauge
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:46am
See ya S.E.!

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UNALIEN
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:43am
you don’t have to change the definition of marriage to accept gay unions

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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:50am
  Hi UNALIEN,
  
  When I read your “gay union” for a second I thought it meant something similar to the AFL-CIO. LOL
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 9:58am
  SEIU can be gay too…
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:16am
  yeah that is funny,
  
  the purpose of this is destroy the family and religion so they are attacking the cultural meaning of “marraige” they are trying to subvert the culture.. Equality is a Marxist political term that really means “samenes” and is designed to destroy the culture by elevating a minority and subjugating the majority.
  
  The reality is to recognize gay couples without changing the definition of marriage… they don’t want that, they want to redefine the culture.. and devalue the meaning of “marraige”
  
  In some jurisdictions there are “common law” relationships that recognize the equivalency in law of marriage without the church. So, in law, cohabitation for a period of 1 or 2 years (varies) will give legal status…
  
  Call it a civil union or whatever, but gay marriage is an oxymoron. These people know that the manipulation of language is crucial to controlling thought, behaviour and culture. It is cultural Marxism and cultural suicide by a thousand cuts..
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 10:20am
  UNALIEN
  You got it right .
  Civil Unions for everyone = Equal Rights
  
  Marriage is a Religious Ceremony Between 1 Man an 1 Woman .
  You can have the rights without Stealing the Word.
  
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- Pontiaku
  Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:59pm
  [i]” and is designed to destroy the culture by elevating a minority and subjugating the majority.”
  “they don’t want that, they want to redefine the culture.. and devalue the meaning of “marraige””[/i]
  [b]Because theist have done so well at elevating marriage, right?[/b]
  
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