This morning’s broadcast of the American Family Association’s “Today’s Issues” program was dedicated to promoting the AFA’s “A Time to Speak” documentary, which is aimed at getting pastors to mobilize their congregations to vote in the upcoming elections.
One guest on the program was Mike Huckabee, who began his interview by threatening to leave the Republican Party if the GOP does not take a stand against the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday not to hear appeals of lower court rulings striking down gay marriage bans in several states.
I am at a loss over why the Republicans are getting the blame for a Supreme Court decision NOT to take a case. How are most conservatives reacting to legal same-sex marriage? Have the conservatives in North Carolina turned over and died over it?
In the first place, anyone who didn’t see this one coming is blind. It was probably easier to have been blind-sided by Brown v. Board of Education. Yet, obviously, many people were completely taken aback. Perhaps it’s because they were so smug and self-assured that it was impossible to see past their own points of view or religious beliefs.
Have you talked to people who were shocked over same-sex marriage being codified? What have you heard people saying? How does one protest same sex marriage? I don’t know what people think they are going to do about it. Enlighten us.
Marriage is a state issue. Any real Republican should acknowledge a state’s right to allow gays to marry.
Wonder where he’d be welcome, should he leave GOP?
Idle threat, for sure.
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Huckabee is a delusional camera hog that wants to run for President….again. He thinks that this will generate publicity and rile up the conservatives.
My response…is above.
Cargo, I agree that he is a delusional camera hog but….he has lots of followers. I like knowing how the other half (or third or fourth) thinks.
I also like your “response.” I needed a laugh.
I used to like Huck. We’ve kinda fallen out tho.
Uh, Cargo, my friend, did you not just sort of describe all the politicians from both parties?!
Especially that bit about the “delusional camera hog that wants to run for President….”
As for the Huck himself, you don’t suppose that, being an ordained Baptist clergyman, he just might believe genuinely that same-sex marriage is morally wrong? And many of his listeners might believe likewise?
Gov. McAuliffe just used the rights of his elected office to officiate the “marriage” of a pair of NoVa lesbians in Richmond. Talk about camera hogs!
Interesting response. I think its fine for Huck to think gay marriage is morally wrong. For that matter, he can think miscegenation is wrong also. His opinion has nothing to do with the legality of either. Now, having said that, why would he blame the Republican party for the fact that same sex marriage is now legal in 30 states. That number is increasing daily.
As for McAuliffe, why would you use quotations around the word “marriage?” It was a legal marriage of two of his friends. Why shouldn’t he officiate? Don’t most couples capture the moment in pictures?
Am I to assume you don’t approve? Let’s discuss that.
The knock on Huckabee, Wolve, is not that he’s insincere, it’s that he seems to be oblivious as to why state bans on civil marriage for same sex couples are faring so badly under constitutional analysis. It has nothing to do with Republican Party positions on the issue. A person can be completely sincere and still profoundly confused. In fact, sometimes being sincere is a prime indicator of confusion.
What does Huckabee want the Republican Party to do?
Yes, Scout, I imagine the Huck may be a bit confused by the contortions of many of our contemporary judges in interpreting the Constitution and its amendments. I would imagine that the original writers and those who crafted the subsequent amendments would be quite shocked by what these judges say those fellers really meant.
I don’t think it matters how any of us feel about gay marriage. It’s all about equal rights. One group can’t be given a right and that same right be denied others. All sorts of marriage “bennies” are out there so it really becomes an economic question.
Wasn’t the Constitution written so it could grow with time and change as time progressed?
Maybe stop selling out the moral and constitutional values of their conservative constitutents? Some in the Repub leadership still seem to be oblivious as to whom their “no-shows” were in November 2012 — symbolized by Karl Rove’s childish spectacle of ignorance back then in calling for his network to hold off on calling the Ohio vote.
How are the Republicans responsible for same sex marriage being legal? Why blame them?
@Wolve
Now that I think about it…… yep.
It’s not a question of being “responsible” for same-sex marriage. It’s a question of making a lot of noise to get conservative donations and votes and then cutting out when the public fight is on for real. And it is not just concerning same-sex marriage where they play this false game.
Not trying to defend Republicans here…far from it. But what could the Republicans or anyone else do about the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case from the lower courts?
Not all conservatives are opposed to same sex marriage. I just got an invitation to attend a wedding…very conservative man marrying his partner. His partner is male.
Wolve, re comment # 13: I assume you’re referring to the Heller decision. Look, just because an 18th Century drafter couldn’t imagine a SiG P226 (to cite my brand) doesn’t mean that we are required to keep muzzle-loading, single-shot pistols under our beds for self-defense.