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Over 100 prominent Republicans have now signed onto a legal brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that civil marriage is a constitutional right for same-sex couples. Click on the image below to watch Margaret Hoover, a Republican strategist, speaking to Marcus Mabry at the New York Times “about why she wants her party to support gay marriage”.
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Update: I previously relayed NYT’s report that former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave was among the 100+ signing onto the brief. Musgrave is refuting NTY’s report. From NYT:
Correction: February 27, 2013
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that former Representative Marilyn Musgrave, Republican of Colorado, had signed on to the brief. The brief was signed by her district director, for himself.
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I am suspicious.
I don’t think it has/had anything to do with beliefs and everything to do with staying in office. Once free of that constraint, you can put your cards on the table. Face up.
Charles Pierce explains the difference between “prominent Republicans” and “Republicans.” Well worth a read.
still an asshole, but a useful idiot is still useful
So are these “conservative” “values” actual deeply-held religious and moral principles, or just some crap these people say for a while? And if, as they appear to be, they are the latter, why do our media give “conservative” “values” any consideration at all? I wonder if it isn’t because they have absolutely no values of their own.
the media is in the tank for conservatives. the ability of politicians to be incompotent or corrupt year after year would not exist without the cover provided by the media. that is why 1) i cannot understand the fdl writers who cannot come to grips with bad/false media actors who repeatedly shill for bad policy. The “i just cant understand why this wapo writer keeps making the same bad arguement” gets old. They are paid to do what they do. 2) i cannot understand why liberals havent boycotted the wapo and other bad media actors into bankruptcy.
Recommended reading-the church senate commitee report on the cia from post watergate-you will see the ties between reporting and policy
Because politicians espousing “liberal” beliefs don’t come off any better? 54 of the illusory Progressive Caucus didn’t sign the Grayson-Takano letter to Obama.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/27/progressive-caucus-folds/
So glad I’ve never sent money to any of them. I’m developing a nose for fraud. My auditor father would have been so proud.
Penn & Teller explain it in an entertaining way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mWXofb-fo