Religious right Republicans attack Laura Bush, call her “tragic”
Activist: Sorry, Mrs. Bush — Protecting Marriage Is a Campaign Issue
[I]t has to suck for the American Family Association to finally see all of Mary Cheney’s inside influence coming home to roost. You don’t invite an avowed lesbian activist, which Mary very much was once upon a time (she wasn’t just the gay liaision for Coors, she was also on the board of a gay-straight activist group), into the inner most circles of Republican power and NOT expect her openly-gay presence and rather strong-willed views to influence those around her…. The lesson here for Republicans and corporate America is that whether you’re a big American company (Ford) or the president of the United States (Bush), if you get in bed with these people they WILL burn you. They know no loyalty, no limits, and have no sense of politics other than threatening to destroy you unless you agree with 110% of their agenda. To hell with gas prices going through roof, seniors getting threatened with Medicare cut-offs, the war in Iraq getting worse every day. The religious right Republicans will demand that you focus on THEIR extreme fringe agenda, even if it shoots you in the foot, or you’re dead.
Well, no one said that the Religious Right understood the concept of political reality and compromise, eh? No, these folks helped steal an election for Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader, and now they want to collect. They worked to put George W. Bush in the White House, but their support came with a price and tremendous- some might say unrealistic- expectations. For those who count themselves among the Religious Right, though, politics has never been (as it was for the late Tip O’Neill) as “the art of the possible”. For these folks,politics has always been a zero-sum, I-win-you-lose proposition. To say that these folks fall asleep at night dreaming of a theocracy would be something of an understatement. Frankly, if that doesn’t scare the Hell out of you (no pun intended), you simply haven’t been paying attention.
Now they’re going after Laura Bush for yet another example of the Administration’s insufficient fealty to the cause. After all, they’ve convinced themselves that they’re responsible for George W. Bush being in the White House to begin with, so why shouldn’t they demand that anyone in his Administration bow to their demands?
(AgapePress) - The president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of Pennsylvania) says federal and state amendments protecting traditional marriage should be a campaign issue, regardless of what First Lady Laura Bush says.
Last week on “Fox News Sunday,” Mrs. Bush commented that although Americans do want to debate marriage amendments, the issue should be addressed with “a lot of sensitivity” and should not be used as a campaign tool. However, AFA of Pennsylvania president Diane Gramley feels the suggestion from the First Lady is not sound campaign advice — especially for pro-family candidates.
Gramley feels it is tragic that Mrs. Bush does not see the importance of making the marriage amendment a campaign issue. Marriage is of essential significance to America’s citizens, the Pennsylvania pro-family leader says, “because it is the foundation of the nation and of any society — and that is one of the main issues that got the values voters out in 2004.”
But now, the family values advocate asserts, many Christians who voted for President George W. Bush and other conservative candidates in the last elections are still waiting for confirmation that their marriage protection concerns are being addressed by the people they helped to put in office. Although a number of states have passed marriage protection measures, many conservatives feel the Bush administration has been sending mixed signals about its support for a proposed federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
Sure, we have American soldiers dying in Iraq and illegal immigrants dying as they attempt to cross the border. We have a President who feels it perfectly acceptable to eavesdrop on American citizens and who uses 9.11 to whittle away at our civil liberties. But enough of the small stuff; let’s talk about the REAL issues, shall we? What are we going to do to make sure that the Gays don’t force their Homosexual Agenda down the throats of our children? When are we going to have that theocracy you promised us?
Tolerance? Christian charity? Whaddya think they are, Liberals??
