This is a month old but I found it interesting. McCain has been consistent on this issue for a long time. He also has a history of voting against hate crimes and special rights legislation.

Well at least he’s taking a conservative stance on something.

Another reason why to vote for McCain. He is terrible on some important issues, but his positives outweigh the negatives and his negatives pale in comparison to Obama.

Judges, Foreign Policy, Right to Life, Marriage, Guns and Spending are important enough reasons why to vote for McCain.

John McCain vows “fight” against gay marriage [video]

“Color-me-suprised” Bump

Homosexual marriage is about the government forcing people to live AGAINST their consciences! It is a matter of taking away the rights of the majority of people, to secure a privilege for a small minority of people, who can secure that their partnership by other means.

It is a matter of destroying the right of religions——not just Christianity by the way-—to teach morality in the way they see fit-—the right of freedom of speech, for people to speak out on issues they hold dear to their hearts-—and Parental rights-—the right to raise your children as you see fit.

It is a matter of taking away the freedom of Americans to think, feel and define their own morality, and define their own communities, their own government. ON the grounds that the GOVERNMENT will now define the doctrines and precepts of religious organizations. Homosexual marriage gives the government the right to intrude their powers in the area of anciently held and practiced religious doctrines—and to restrain these doctrines, destroys all religious liberty!

This is a month old but since the jackass stuck his foot in his mouth (again) someone felt the need to post a diversionary thread.

Yes. McCain even with his faults has a solid backbone of conservatism and it isn’t something that has changed whenever convenient. He has stuck his finger into the eye of conservatives on occasion but his history show he doesn’t just do that to conservatives and I doubt that any other Republican candidate would’ve been so candid sitting on the tv show of a lesbian when he confirmed support for marriage between a man and a women yet again.

What did he say now?

McCain even with his faults has a solid backbone of conservatism and it isn’t something that has changed whenever convenient.

ROFL

Take a look at some of the flip-flops by audience since the beginning of the primary season.

So how is he going to "Fight for" this position? If I remember correctly, he doesn't support adding an amendment to the Constitution making the only lawful marriage recognized in the US to be only between one man and one woman.

And if we don't get this, marriage is going to be re-defined, one liberal state judge and federal judge at a time, until it's the exact opposite of that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042596/posts

And as terrible McCain is on some issues, Obama is even terriblier.

Another reason why to vote for McCain .. his positives outweigh the negatives

ROFL

The logic of Republican partisans never ceases to amaze even the jaded.

Judges, Foreign Policy, Right to Life, Marriage, Guns and Spending are important enough reasons why to vote for McCain.

Amen. Absolutely right.

Defining marriage in the constitution won’t stop them. They will just go the civil union route and do all they can to make the idea of marriage weak as mush. The sexual rights community has already had a weakening effect on normal sexual relationships as they apply to marriage. When ego and base desires drive what is defined as love and commitment then the whole concept of lifelong marriage becomes tenuous and weak.

There are many conservatives who believe the states should make the final decision. My opinion is that any amendment should be more tuned towards defining what isn’t heterosexual monogamous sex as obscenity and include within that definition a ban on the federal government using public funds in any way to encourage or spread obscenity. I believe in the big bang approach. The perverts and kooks have only survived by their ability to distort the first amendment and the judges have only managed to avoid doing their duties by pretending to not know what obscenity is.

Juan McLame is the same idiot liberal RINO who went on Ellen Degenerate’s program. I don’t trust anything he says or anyone who supports him for president. I would rather vote third party or write in a true conservative and vote for the othe pubbies in other races.McPain should have switched to the RAT party when he had the chance a few years ago.

So, I take it you are a conservative either voting for Obama; or doing a write in.

Yes, but ask him about “civil unions.”

You didn't get zapped in the great purge? I'm surprised. You were highly recommended.

Speaking of the devil: FO is back. She's running under a male moniker this time round.

snort, lol. You weren't surprised; you were hoping.

And what's FO's new monicker, pls?

Not answering my question, eh? Suit yourself. Obama does that too, you know. It's a handy diversionary device.

He may not be conservative enough...but we can't get Reagan back, so I can settle for "semi-conservative who's not lacking a pair" like a good many of our current wimpy Republicans.

I give him points for being willing to kick some a$$.

It's a handy diversionary device.

Nope.

The Alia account crawled out of her partisan bunker and hammered conservatives in a California because they refused to support an Austrian liberal. The liberal won, the California Republican Party collapsed and the state is in a financial mess at the hands of that Austrian idiot.

For many California conservatives, the moniker Alia is synonymous with Judas goat.

The Mag of Amerigo, was always so Vespuccian about himself and periodically deigned to use common sense, but mostly wrapped himself inside a teeeny-tiny knot of "all American" in order to never miss putting himself above all things practical, doable. I see his spirit yet fouls this hallowed forum.

On a fine July Day, after he'd blasted, and done the snotty usual, looking down his nose thing at those "dreadful Republicans", he was asked: So, if not McCain, who are you voting for? Obama, or doing a write in?

The Mag of Amerigo, felt naked. Exposed. He summoned his bluster and blasted.

And could not, would not answer the question. His nares were aquiver with intense hostility at whomever might deign to ask the royal "him" ANYTHING about the 2008 election season which was not of his choosing to answer.

Especially when it was so obvious that none of his chosen candidates had a demon's chance in hell of winning office; despite how truly wonderful those candidates were. And they were candidates I would have fought for.

Amerigomag is an metaphor for the chestnut: "if wishes were horses, beggers could ride."

I'm confused.

Is the Alia account:

Denying it hammered conservatives unless they supported Schwarzenegger, or ...
Denying that the Austrian was elected, or ...
Denying that the Austrian has effectively bankrupted California, or ...
Denying that the Austrian has destroyed the CaGOP.

What conservatives are trying to prevent is:

I'm confused.

Is the Alia account:

Denying it hammered conservatives unless they supported McCain, or ...
Denying that McCain was elected, or ...
Denying that McCain effectively derailed our democratic republic , or ...
Denying that McCain destroyed the GOP.

Pounding your keyboard in repetition mode and holding your breath until you turn bluer is not going to help facilitate this conversation, Mag of Amerigo.

Somewhere in the recesses of your brain, I'm sure there's a glint of awareness of this fact.

He may earn my vote because of his position on this one issue.

Homosexual marriage is about the government forcing people to live AGAINST their consciences!

Poppycock. You are not being put into gov't-arranged homosexual marriages.

It's about granting legal contract rights and responsibilities to grown, consenting couples equitably.

Think for a moment all the rights and responsibilities you take for granted as a heterosexually married man or woman: inheritance, spousal support, health coverage, visitation, medical decisions and much more. Is it really your business to decide things for your daughter rather than her lesbian partner of a dozen years? Would you want your Mother-in-Law deciding things for your spouse or you?

People make the mistake of equating government with religion on this issue.

Government WILL NOT tell your church who it must marry and more than it already does. Some only marry members, some require pre-marital counseling, and some will marry all comers. That will not change in the US.

No, it isnt’t poppycock.

It is a choice between the first amendment, and homosexual marriage. Although many want to muddy the water, and deny this, it is true.

No. This has nothing to do with legal contractual rights, because those rights already exist. These partnerships can already be legally recognised. With wills and other contracts. This isn’t what homosexuals want. They feel that it is important that EVERYONE ACCEPT their lifestyle. There can be no other opinion. They want any other moral view to be illegal. Our beliefs become illegal. Dessent becomes illegal.

That isn’t what anyone wants.

When homosexual marriage is legalised, no one is allowed to speak out on this moral issue, nor are they allowed to disagree with it. Preachers are censored. Our rights to keep our historical, moral values are being taken from us! We can not raise our famiies the way we want to, or attend a church or believe what we want.

In Canada, “focus on the family” is censured. Bible verses are censured. Speech is censured.

The government WILL HAVE to tell the churches who they must marry. Discrimination is illegal.

When the sodomy laws were abolished, I agreed that what was done in private between to consenting adults, was no one’s business. Trouble was, now that it is legal, they don’t keep it in private at home! Our kids are accosted with sex in our public parks, and with parades down mainstreets of our cities.