The Republican Party Platform: Support of Constitutional Amendments to Protect Marriage and the Unborn (1 Viewer)

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Sounds good to me. Ill take pro choice feminists and homosexuals over scheming, lying hypocrits like the American Christian Right any day of the week.
 
what happened to that "i hate queers" post?
 
I cant view... windows vista is the worst thing that has ever happened to computers !!

Vista has some sort of glitch with adobe reader... and it still has no solution..
Delete Abode Reader and install Foxit Reader instead. Very light and very quick.

Vista issues are largely user issues...
 
Perhaps people believe supporting Constitutional Amendments to protect marriage and the unborn are only the positions of Christian extremists or zealots. Nope: the support of these amendments and also the appointment of judges that hold these values are included in the Republican party platform. I was having this discussion with a friend of mine yesterday and he said he can't believe that's the Rep. platform, so I emailed him the link to the pdf below.

http://www.gop.com/images/2004platform.pdf
So you really think that and not because they are aiming for votes from Christian extremists or zealots?
 
I agree with you PE about the general perception of the Republican Party platform. The same misperceptions exist in reverse about the Dem's platform. Both are all too commonplace. Apart from the two elements mentioned above, your link highlights the fact that the two parties have identical or similar objectives on so many fronts, just different strategies for meeting those ends. Still, one is cast as "bible-thumping, sexist homophobes" while the other is seen as "baby killing proponents of sin". Since so many people's positions on abortion and gay marriage are non-negotiable, I think those will continue to color our take on party platforms.
 
So you really think that and not because they are aiming for votes from Christian extremists or zealots?

That is the Republican Party platform; not the platform of Pat Robertson or James Dobson. While it's reasonable to expect people will agree with some positions more than others and perhaps disagree with some aspects, I think it's important to understand your Party's platform. That was the discussion I was having with my buddy; he's a Republican and felt Huckabee's positions of amending the Constitution were extreme and not part of the Republican Party platform.

Sabine touches on an important point, there are many overlaps in the two platforms and I agree with the large percentage of the Democratic platform. And in many instance agree more with the Democrats than the Republicans. However, there are wedge issues that divide the parties.
 
That is the Republican Party platform; not the platform of Pat Robertson or James Dobson. While it's reasonable to expect people will agree with some positions more than others and perhaps disagree with some aspects, I think it's important to understand your Party's platform. That was the discussion I was having with my buddy; he's a Republican and felt Huckabee's positions of amending the Constitution were extreme and not part of the Republican Party platform.

Sabine touches on an important point, there are many overlaps in the two platforms and I agree with the large percentage of the Democratic platform. And in many instance agree more with the Democrats than the Republicans. However, there are wedge issues that divide the parties.

Everyone's point is that extremists have hijacked the republican party. This may be the republican party's platform, but its not MY republican party. Hopefully that changes soon.
 
Republican Logic????

Huge tax breaks for people who already have more money than they can spend in their entire lifetime will stimulate the economy, because now they’ll have more money to spend.

Buying cheap goods from China is good for the American economy, because the people who have had their jobs outsourced to China can only afford to buy cheap goods.

A president who lies to the nation about a sexual liaison with a fellow consenting adult should be impeached. A president who lies to the nation about going to war should be re-elected.

When Jerry Falwell uses his pulpit to shill for the Republicans, he’s an influential party spokesperson. When the IRS knocks on his door, he’s a tax-exempt man-of-the-cloth.

If you joined the military, you were in Iraq to protect your country. But if you return home and run for elected office as a Democrat, you were in Iraq to "pad your resume".

If you fight for America, you are protecting freedoms like the First Amendment. But if you exercise your First Amendment rights, you are anti-American.

When a panel of judges stops votes from being counted in Florida and installs a man in the White House, they are upholding the Constitution. When a panel of judges in Florida upholds the law and decide against Terry Schiavo’s parents, they are activists.

According to Rumsfeld, keeping Gitmo detainees standing for hours is "uncomfortable". Rumsfeld developing writer’s cramp from personally signing letters to the families of fallen soldiers constitutes "torture".

When children see Janet Jackson’s breast for five seconds on TV, they are learning wanton, sinful behaviour. When children hear Pat Robertson calling for the murder of duly-elected leader, they are learning good Christian values.

According to our military analysts, the soldiers currently serving in Iraq are not targets for the insurgents; they are securing the country. According to those same analysts, we can’t send any more soldiers to Iraq to secure the country, because we’d just be sending more targets.

We can’t announce when we’ll be withdrawing from Iraq, because the insurgents may decrease their attacks and simply wait out the clock. But we can’t train Iraqi troops so that ours can withdraw, because of the constant attacks by the insurgents.

The terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. Unless we allow those freedoms to be taken away by our own government, the terrorists have won.

When thousands of scientific experts declare global warming a reality, we need more study before we can act. When we get information from a single source named Curveball, we must take action before it’s too late.

It makes perfect sense for the IRS to spend millions of dollars tracking down citizens who cheated the government by fifty bucks on their tax return. Investigating where millions of taxpayers' dollars have disappeared to in the 'fog of war' is absolute foolishness.

When warned that Social Security will be in trouble within the next four decades, the best course of action is to totally gut it immediately. When warned that Bin Laden plans an attack on US soil, the best course of action is to adopt a wait-and-see attitude.

When Americans see billions of their tax dollars going to Halliburton, they are appreciating the enormous cost it takes to wage a war. When they ask how that money is being spent, they are nit-picking.

Ann Coulter is an outspoken woman of style and charm. Hillary Clinton is a mouthy *****. Al Franken is a crackpot who is using the airwaves to mislead the American people. Rush Limbaugh is the calm voice of reason.

When Dick Cheney told someone to **** off on the Senate floor, he was, as promised, bringing dignity back to Washington politics.

When TV journalists show videos of Administration members saying something they deny having said twenty-four hours later, those journalists are engaging in ‘revisionist history’.

When millions of Americans march in anti-war demonstrations, they are a ‘handful of people’. When a handful of people support an anti-gay marriage Constitutional amendment, they are an ‘overwhelming number of Americans’.
 
That is the Republican Party platform; not the platform of Pat Robertson or James Dobson. While it's reasonable to expect people will agree with some positions more than others and perhaps disagree with some aspects, I think it's important to understand your Party's platform. That was the discussion I was having with my buddy; he's a Republican and felt Huckabee's positions of amending the Constitution were extreme and not part of the Republican Party platform.

Sabine touches on an important point, there are many overlaps in the two platforms and I agree with the large percentage of the Democratic platform. And in many instance agree more with the Democrats than the Republicans. However, there are wedge issues that divide the parties.
Allow me to tie it up an a neat little bow for you: It is extreme and it is the Republican platform because they rely on extremists for votes.

For the most part, a very small part of the population go out and vote without having something specific to vote for. (Gay Marriage, Casino's, Taxes, Abortion, Global Warming, etc.) It's not enough for most of the population to exercise their Constitutional Right because it's their right. They have to be pried away from their couches and TV's for a few minutes to do it and this is how they are manipulated.

You're welcome.
 
I cant view... windows vista is the worst thing that has ever happened to computers !!

Vista has some sort of glitch with adobe reader... and it still has no solution..

I had to go download new Adobe software when I got Vista, and it took a few tries, but since then, I've had no problems.
 

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