Social Issues: GOP’s Strength

Sioux City is the first city council in the nation to defend traditional marriage and put pressure on the state legislature to allow a constitutional amendment to be voted on.

Voting 3-2, the council Monday adopted a resolution supporting the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, opposing efforts to redefine the institution as anything else and urging the Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot.

While some may not view this as a pro-family victory outside of Sioux City, Iowa, one has to remember that what happens on the smaller scale influences what happens in the big arena.  Sioux City has taken a page out of the gay activists playbook; small victories equal one big movement.  For example, when the lesbian couple won their case against a church that would not rent out property to them for their civil union, it was like a shot heard around the pro-family world.  I am certain that Sioux City’s decision will not go unnoticed by those across the nation who want to tear apart traditional marriage.

Social issues on the national front have also appeared.  It seems as though one of Obama’s first move as president, lifting the ban on the Mexico City Policy,  has proven to be his most unpopular.

Further, Obama’s decision to reverse the prohibition on funding for overseas family-planning providers may be the least popular thing he has done so far. This was an executive order that forbade federal government money from going to overseas family-planning groups that provide abortions or offer abortion counseling. Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s decision to lift this ban, while only 35% approve of it.

With these examples along with traditional marriage proponents that have never failed in any state that put them on the ballot, it seems as if a majority of Americans still believe in the importance of pro-family and pro-life issues even though we elected lefty Barack Obama as our next president.  It demonstrates that these issues are not only for those on the right, but they are American issues.  The Republican party should take notice that these two issues in their platform are winning issues and they are not the reason people are not supporting our party.