Republicans approve resolution reaffirming opposition to gay marriage

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garbon

April 13, 2013, 11:40:20 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-approve-resolution-affirming-opposition-gay-marriage-194208913--politics.html

QuoteWith no debate, Republicans at the party's spring meeting here on Friday unanimously approved a number of resolutions, including one that reaffirmed the party's opposition to same-sex marriage.

"The Republican National Committee affirms its support for marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and as the optimum environment in which to raise healthy children for the future of America," the resolution read. The 157 RNC members present approved it in a voice vote.

The vote on same-sex nuptials was part of an effort to dispel criticism from social conservatives worried that the party may veer from its official position on the issue.

Before the meeting, some outraged social conservative leaders accused the party of taking steps to abandon its opposition to same-sex marriage, after the so-called Growth and Opportunity Project report outlining steps for the party to broaden its reach called for being more inclusive to gay and lesbian voters. Thirteen prominent heads of social conservative groups sent a letter to RNC Chairman Reince Preibus this week, threatening to abandon the party if it veered from "conservative principles."

Two Senate Republicans, Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois, have declared their support for same-sex marriage, as have all but three Democrats in the chamber. Public opinion polls suggest that Americans, especially young voters, increasily support extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The RNC also unanimously approved a separate resolution to support the "core values" within the official platform passed at the Republican National Convention in Tampa last year, which asserted support for gun rights, traditional marriage, border security and opposition to abortion.

Another resolution honored former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Others related to eduction, foreign policy, national security and the nation's space program passed unanimously.

Well eventually they'll learn...:rolleyes:

Best though is "controversy" around the gay RNC member! :D

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gay-rnc-member-says-voted-against-gop-marriage-214033182--election.html

QuoteWhen the National Republican Party took a voice vote to approve a resolution reasserting the party's opposition to same sex marriage, Robert Kabel, a gay committeeman from the District of Columbia who supports allowing same sex nuptials, didn't speak up. At least not loud enough for anyone to hear him.

Immediately after the vote at RNC's quarterly meeting here Friday, Chairman Reince Priebus declared that all 157 members present had supported the measure.

But despite the tally, which officially recorded the vote as unanimous, Kabel insists he dissented.

"I voted against the resolution. I did, it just wasn't very vocal," Kabel said after the meeting. "It's hard to hear in here."

Kabel, a lawyer and former leader of the Log Cabin Republicans, became the first gay local chairman within the Republican Party when he was elected to chair the D.C. GOP in 2004. Nearly a decade later, he is working quietly within the party to remove the traditional marriage clause from the official party platform, which passed at the Republican National Convention last August and won't be open for changes until the next convention in 2016.

At closed-door meetings with other members this week, Kabel voiced opposition to the party's decision to take a vote reaffirming the official position against same sex marriage. Members had introduced the measure in an effort to soothe tensions with social conservatives worried that the party may veer from its long-held position on the issue.

When time came for the full body to vote on it, party members decided to lump the resolution together with 11 others and vote on them as a whole. A handful of members, including Kabel, said they wanted to vote on the resolutions one at a time, but were overruled. When the time to vote arrived, no "nay" votes were heard.

So why didn't Kabel, who last month delivered a speech to thousands of pr0-same-sex marriage demonstrators in front of the Supreme Court advocating for legal same sex marriage, speak up?

"It's not my style," he said. "I prefer to do it one on one as opposed to grandstanding. I'm not into grandstanding."

Kabel said that there are "several" RNC members who support same sex marriage rights, but he wouldn't say how many within the party agree with him.

"It's gonna change faster among Republicans outside of the committee," he said. "It's a long process."

:lol: :lol: :lol: :( :blush:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

fhdz

#1
April 13, 2013, 03:07:09 PM
What a bunch of dipshits.
and the horse you rode in on

11B4V

#2
April 13, 2013, 04:53:44 PM Last Edit: April 13, 2013, 04:56:42 PM by 11B4V
They're Republicans, what do you expect?

The gay marriage issue is like a gaint steam roller move at two miles an hour and they are wearing cement boots. The gay steam roller will crush them in time.

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#3
April 13, 2013, 04:59:39 PM
Who's Marshall Vandruff?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#4
April 13, 2013, 05:04:21 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 13, 2013, 04:59:39 PM
Who's Marshall Vandruff?

I dunno know???
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

garbon

#5
April 13, 2013, 05:05:24 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on April 13, 2013, 04:53:44 PM
The gay steam roller will crush them in time.

Umm...hot? :hmm:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

#6
April 13, 2013, 05:06:50 PM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

11B4V

#7
April 13, 2013, 05:07:27 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 13, 2013, 05:05:24 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on April 13, 2013, 04:53:44 PM
The gay steam roller will crush them in time.

Umm...hot? :hmm:

Y'all's time will come. Have no fear.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

11B4V

#8
April 13, 2013, 05:11:47 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Phillip V

#9
April 13, 2013, 06:00:53 PM
More of their sons need to be converted to gay.

11B4V

#11
April 13, 2013, 07:32:52 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Admiral Yi

#12
April 13, 2013, 08:57:39 PM
Dunno is short for don't know.  In effect you typed "I don't know know."

11B4V

#13
April 13, 2013, 09:07:27 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 13, 2013, 08:57:39 PM
Dunno is short for don't know.  In effect you typed "I don't know know."

Ah I stand corrected.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Martinus

#14
April 14, 2013, 01:05:13 AM
Quote from: fahdiz on April 13, 2013, 03:07:09 PM
What a bunch of dipshits.

Nah I think they are remarkable in their suicidal tendencies.  :lol:
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