For Daniel Innis, a successful businessman and professional academic and one of three openly gay candidates vying for a Republican seat in this year’s upcoming House elections, the question of same-sex marriage is becoming increasingly opaque as a hot-button issue. “I think as people like me run and get out into the communities and make a positive difference — and as we win, and people in the party get to know us — that will go away,” Mr. Innis, who is running for a seat in New Hampshire’s first district, said after a recent meet-and-greet here, where the state legislature passed a gay marriage law in 2009. “Five years from now, we will no longer be having this conversation,” reports the conservative Washington times.
Innis is not alone. Many others, including openly gay candidates Carl DeMaio, who is running in California’s 52nd district, and Richard Tisei, who is running for a House seat in Massachusetts’s sixth district, agree: Their party’s position on same-sex marriage is slowly becoming a thing of the past and just one more step the floundering party can take to win over young voters who might otherwise vote for them.
As an indication of just how far the party is evolving – a term frequently used by President Obama to describe his own position on same-sex marriage – the mere fact that they are endorsing these three candidates is proof. “Our decisions on the Republican nominees we support will not be based on race, gender or sexual orientation but will be based on the strength of their candidacy and their ability to defeat Democrats,” said Andrea Bozek, spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
But, as the Times correctly notes, the issue is “by no means settled.” As an example, the paper points to two states – Nevada and Texas – to illustrate the wide chasm between various geographical entities. “The Nevada GOP…stripped the pro-life and traditional-marriage planks out of its state party platform” at roughly the same time “The Texas GOP earlier this year backed gay-conversion therapy as part of its party platform.”
Meanwhile, the national Republican Party makes no bones about where they stand. “[T]he national GOP platform, adopted in 2012, endorsed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which barred federal benefits to same-sex couples, and backed ratification of a traditional marriage amendment to the Constitution. It also called state court decisions that paved the way for same-sex marriage “an assault on the foundations of our society, challenging the institution, which for thousands of years in virtually every civilization, has been entrusted with the rearing of children and the transmission of cultural values.”
As for candidates Innis, DeMaio and Tisei, the issues that matter most to them are economic. “[T]heir campaigns are more focused on getting the nation’s economic house in order and getting people back to work than it is about changing the party’s stance on gay marriage.”
Either way this government is corrupt, whether it be Republican Pig Capitalist Nazi’s or Democrat Socialist Communists but sides of our government are evil and its just a ploy to keep you as cheap labor to serve them as slaves enforced by their Police Gestapo and Operant conditioned Military drones that lost their free will the moment they joined.