Marc Ambinder noted yesterday that the Republican Party greeted the California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage with near total silence (except for a statement from second-in-command House Republican Roy Blount that denounced the ruling.)
Twenty four hours later, the silence continues. No statement from John McCain himself (his deputy communications director has weighed in) the Republican National Committee, or the Republican Senate or House election committees.
And yet major Christian Right groups are reacting with fury with statements of their own:
Focus on the Family:
California Triggers Cultural Earthquake
Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, is outraged by the court’s blatant disregard for marriage and the voters of California.
“The will of the people has now arrogantly been declared null and void,” he said. “In so doing, the justices have undermined and endangered the basic building block of society, which has been honored and preserved in every nation on earth through most of human history.”
Family Research Council Action:
…California voters watched in horror this afternoon as judicial activism returned with a vengeance in one of the most egregious rulings in American jurisprudence…. This outcome is even more troubling than Massachusetts’, in that California voters had already won the right to put a marriage protection amendment on the ballot in November. If the court cared at all about the democratic process, it would have stayed its decision until the people’s voice was heard on the November amendment. Instead, these justices trampled on the legislature and created same-sex marriage by judicial fiat. This is nothing more than a judicial shotgun wedding that forces a redefinition of marriage on the people of California and potentially the rest of the nation…
These groups constitute the base of the GOP. If the party, from McCain on down, turns its back on them, who does it represent? Just economic and defense conservatives? Anyone else think that its current silence on an issue that’s a top concerns for social conservatives represents a major turning point for the Republican Party?
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posted May 17, 2008 at 12:06 am
I love James Dobson and believe he is the closest person we have in America that resembles one of the original Apostles. But he should stop trying to get degenerates and reprobates to follow the Gospel. Jesus taught that we should preach the Gospel to them and if they mock us, leave them to His judgment day. Homosexuals are the same now as they were in Sodom or Rome. They attacked celestial beings, what do we expect they’ll do to us? Christians should want these people higlighted and set at arms length away from the church. They refuse repentance by secular LAWS enacted for that reason and they are helped by other anti-Christians. You can’t reach certain kinds of people. Many people will refuse the Gospel. They have to reach out to it.
Christians should see that it is time to gather as one and care for one another and stop preaching the Gospel to the mocking miscreants of perversions. The GOP has been shown for what it is at its heart. The Democrats, far worse overall, have some Christians lost within its marxist and sodom-like horror. And that is what should concern fellow Christians. Dr. Dobson and others (like Charles Colson) should start a “campaign” for the rights of Christians to be free from the persecution and recruitment from the homosexual community. That men and women want to pursue a homosexual life is their own choice. It is also a free choice to reject homosexuality. What Christians should do is to learn from Paul that “as citizens” we can demand that homosexuals stay out of our school system with the recruitment of “questioning” children. That is a direct search for young targets. Christians have the constitutional rights to freedom from homosexuals and their desire to get to other people’s children. Same-gender marriage is nothing to Christians. It does not exist per Jesus. Done deal. The Apostles saved homosexuals in their day but ONLY if those people engaging in homosexuality – just like other sins – desired to become Christians.
Now it is time for Christians to unite agianst this great and evil force desiring to force us, like Lot’s Angelic visitors, to have them “know” us. Jesus was clear that the Gospel is non-negotiable for His followers. Marriage, immutably man and woman, should not be altered by divorce or sexually perverted proclivities. It is time for Christians to defend the faith against those in the GOP that care nothing for Christians, and for those in the Democrat party that desire only harm and evil be inflicted on us and our children. Read the witness of the Apostles.
posted May 17, 2008 at 12:37 am
I hope that Donny recognizes that there are many Christians who are Democrats and we do not embrace homosexuality any more than the Conservative Christians. I have known for years that the Republicans will say anything to get your vote but in fact Many of the Republicans caught in scandals these last few years are in fact homosexuals.
If McCain won’t speak up it is because he won’t take a stand for the Right Wing Christians any more than any other elected Republican has. After all, he has been in office long enough to do something about it when the Republicans controlled both houses and the White House.
When will the Conservative Christians wake up! the GOP is NOT GOD’S PARTY.