Conservative Republicans question what's next after gay marriage ruling

[Jazzy]

While some Republican presidential candidates urged action to counter the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling legalizing gay marriage, grassroots activists at a conservative conference this weekend said they preferred to focus on limiting the damage.

Several presidential hopefuls at the Western Conservative Summit in the swing state of Colorado called for constitutional amendments or civil disobedience to turn back the Court's landmark ruling on Friday.

But Christian conservatives who have been on the front lines of a battle to stop the advance of gay marriage indicated it was time to cut their losses. Rather, they would prefer to ensure that the ruling would not restrict their ability to practice their religion as they saw fit.

"Our first response is moving at a federal and state level to protect religious freedom," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a Christian conservative group. "You have to secure your base camp."

The calls for action against the ruling came from presidential candidates keen to show their conservative credentials as they compete in a crowded Republican field for the party nomination for the November 2016 election.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum blamed his fellow Republicans for not banning gay marriage nationwide, as he tried to do a decade ago in Congress.

"We have been bullied into silence," Santorum said on Friday. "We're losing because we're not trying to win."

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said states that disagreed with the decision could prevent it from taking effect, even though conservative states like Texas and Kentucky began issuing same-sex marriage licenses after Friday's ruling.

Civil disobedience is also an option, Huckabee said.

"In all of our lives there comes moments where have to decide whether we obey God or we obey a decision we believe is unlawful," he said.

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Thoughts?

 

[Webster]

...and the usual suspects cry bloody murder that they won't be able - for now, at least - to bully LGBT Americans on this issue; all I can say to them - especially Hatemonger-in-Chief Tony Perkins, is....

 

[Dee]

Pretty soon they'll let dogs and cats get married, and then you'll be able to marry inanimate objects. What is the world coming to!

 

[BioWarfare]

Are transgendered people allowed to marry?

Or how does that work out?

 

[Dee]

Are transgendered people allowed to marry?

Or how does that work out?

There's nothing against the federal law now, regardless of what sex or orientation you are.

 

[Webster]

Pretty soon they'll let dogs and cats get married, and then you'll be able to marry inanimate objects. What is the world coming to!

*deadpans* Don't give the Fundies any ideas, Dee...they might actually start thinking that.

 

[DrLeftover]

According to the TV networks, "love won the day".

So that woman that wanted to marry a tree (or whatever it was), should be allowed to.

Right?

 

[Webster]

According to the TV networks, "love won the day".

So that woman that wanted to marry a tree (or whatever it was), should be allowed to.

Right?

Considering that it was a British tabloid that originally published that story, it doesn't hold much - if any - stock on the case at hand.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well, OK, then there was this one:

Sealed with a kiss: Man 'marries' his dog in sunset ceremony - but assures guests 'it's not sexual'

Joseph Guiso bends down to kiss his new 'bride' in a wedding ceremony with a difference - one of the parties has four legs and a tail.

An Australian man staged a 'marriage' to his beloved his yellow labrador in an outdoor ceremony and promptly sealed the union with a kiss.

Joseph Guiso and Honey were 'joined in matrimony' at Toowoomba's Laurel Bank Park - and the real surprise is that 30 friends and family members turned up to witness the event.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334993/Joseph-Guiso-marries-dog-Honey-sunset-ceremony.html

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

America died last week with these last two rulings on Obama care and gay marriage. America is dead and only exists by name. Our supreme court ADMITTED it made its ruling by feelings and personal beliefs not the Constitution. Our decline on all levels is legendary in speed.

 

[Webster]

Well, OK, then there was this one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334993/Joseph-Guiso-marries-dog-Honey-sunset-ceremony.html

Ahh, another British tabloid article.... *deadpans* ...you coulda' just quoted from the Sun the Scum; it'd had the same effect.

 

[Webster]

America died last week with these last two rulings on Obama care and gay marriage. America is dead and only exists by name. Our supreme court ADMITTED it made its ruling by feelings and personal beliefs not the Constitution. Our decline on all levels is legendary in speed.

On the Obamacare case, you're right...on the marriage equality cases, not so much....

 

[McConnaughay]

According to the TV networks, "love won the day".

So that woman that wanted to marry a tree (or whatever it was), should be allowed to.

Right?

Absolutely not. Screw those damn tree-huggers... :tongue:

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

On the Obamacare case, you're right...on the marriage equality cases, not so much....

Well have to disagree. As much as I actually want a gay community to have the same rights making up law is not there job upholding it is there job. And when the supreme court OPENLY ADMITS to it we are now officially a banna republic. This could have been and should have been congress. Wipe your ass because our Constitution is now toilet paper.