Maine is reason #31 why marriage is a winning issue and the thirty other reasons are the other states who have had the definition of marriage being between on man and one woman upheld by the electorate. Traditional marriage has never lost on the ballot…………never…………not even in the liberal northeast………….not anywhere in this Obamanation. Traditional marriage even prevailed when his name was at the top of the ticket last November.
What is interesting about the Maine vote, however, is that the voters gave the middle finger to the very people they elected to represent them. The Maine legislature imposed a law providing gay marriage and yesterday the people spoke and rejected that law. (Maine doesn’t know how lucky they are to actually have their elected officials make the gay marriage law instead of the courts unconstitutionally doing it or to have their elected officials actually do something about marriage-even if it was the wrong decision. We don’t have that luxury in Iowa.)
While the rest of the country embraces the stance for traditional marriage and flocks to the polls to uphold it, the GOP continues to move away from the issue because they think they are alienating people and that people just don’t care. The Republican party is ignoring the marriage issue nationally and also at our state level even though it has the definition in its platform. I have yet to see one update from yesterday’s elections from either the RNC or the Iowa GOP on the win in Maine and how traditional marriage is now 31 for 31. They wouldn’t know a winning issue if it slapped them in the face.
Remember, according to our former Governor Terry Branstad in order to win we shouldn’t “wear our conservatism on our sleeve.” Even though traditional marriage always prevails on a ballot and 70% of Iowans want their chance to vote on that issue, it is supposedly a non-starter. Perhaps some people choose not to wear conservatism on their sleeve because they don’t have enough of it to fill up the sleeves of a muscle shirt.
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I agree with our former Governor — don’t wear conservatism on your sleeve. Wear it as a suit of armor! The only way to save our republic is for our nation to return to the acknowledgement that our blessings come from our Creator.
It may be an issue that will win at the ballot box, but it most certainly is not an issue that should be front and center, or even an issue government should decide. While a majority may agree voting wise with the definition of traditional marriage you are not going to win votes by displaying hatred and animosity towards a minority of individuals that the public respects, knows, and genuinely does not care what goes the personal lives of others.
Attempting to win the marriage issue is not the same as winning over voters and moving a majority base in electing Republicans. You are arguing two separate points. Until you discover that, you will not win the argument. You will remain close-minded and ignorant.
Why do you think I am arguing two separate points? If something is a winning issue and a political party possesses that issue in its platorm then it is a winning issue for that party. If you don’t think that marriage is a main issue you are in denial. The latest Rasmussen poll is showed that the category of “values” grew in importance by 17% in the almighty voting block of Independents. It grew more than any other issues, including fiscal. Over 70% of Iowans want to vote on the issue of marriage. You don’t think this issue will gain votes?
I’m not sure why fighting for the right to vote on an institution that was here long before the country was even founded is displaying hate. Also, you use these two sentences in the same argument “It may be an issue that will win at the ballot box” and “a majority genuinely does not care what goes the personal lives of others.” It takes a majority to win at the ballot box. Now who is ignorant?