NEVADA GOP TOOK RIGHT STEP ON GAY MARRIAGE
In a 2013 New York Times profile, the president’s daughter,
Patti Davis, reminded everyone of her father’s opposition to a California
ballot measure that would have banned gay teachers from working in public
schools, and recalled a very telling incident from her youth…
“Once when she and her father were watching a Rock Hudson movie, Ms. Davis said, she remarked that the actor ‘looked weird’ kissing his female co-star. She said her father explained that Mr. Hudson ‘would rather be kissing a man,’ and conveyed, without using the words homosexual or gay, the idea that ‘some men are born wanting to love another man.’”
This was a simple acknowledgement of reality, just as Nevada
Republicans at this year’s convention acknowledged the political reality that,
like it or not, for better or worse, legal gay marriages in this country are
inevitable.
The fact is the general public’s views on and acceptance of
gay marriage have changed dramatically over the last 10 years, especially as
more and more younger citizens have entered the voting population.
Legal gay marriages are also inevitable because of the equal
protection clause in our Constitution and because of the precedent established
by the United States Supreme Court in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia
landmark decision in which the court declared, in striking down that state’s
ban on interracial marriages, that marriage was a fundamental right.
One of my favorite Reagan quotes is this: “Government’s
first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
It is not the government’s proper role to determine who can
marry who. If anything, this controversy shows the danger of an
ever-expanding “nanny state” government. In fact, the real problem here
isn’t letting gays into the institution of marriage, but the decision made
many, many years ago to let the government into the institution of marriage.
Again quoting Reagan, “Government is not a solution to our
problem, government is the problem.”
This is not to say, of course, that all Republicans are now
supporters of gay marriage. They surely are not. What the Nevada
GOP’s decision says is that limited-government Republicans of good conscience
can be on opposite sides of this issue and still be good Republicans. I mean, it's not like they're now supporting tax hikes!
This was surely neither an easy decision, nor a popular one with
social conservatives. But it was the right decision, as history will bear
out over time. And as the first state GOP party in the nation to make
such a bold move, Nevada Republicans can be proud for making a decision that
other states will now certainly follow.
NOT MEMBERS OF HUTCH FAN CLUB
A gentleman by the name of Scotty Swanson-Norman of Lander County, who I assume is somehow
involved in the mining industry, sent out the following email on Tuesday…
“We have (lieutenant governor candidate Mark) Hutchinson’s voting record, and it’s abysmal…plus he’s lying to the Nevada Voters about his voting record in the NV legislature. Anyone who would vote for this guy deserves him. He was one of the turncoat Republicans in Carson City who were pushing - along with most of the Dems - the Gross Proceeds tax revision for mining, and he was very vocal about the fact that he believes our Nevada mining industry has been getting away with financial murder under the current Net Proceeds of Mines Tax structure.“Alicia and I both contacted his campaign headquarters and asked for clarification between what was actually on the Senate record vs the voting record he was disseminating in his campaign e-mails, and now we’ve been dropped from his e-mailing list…if that isn’t telling enough…RINO Hutch gets an F+ in my book.”
Must be grading on a curve.
His record is much worse than that!
Scotty ended with…
“I don’t usually use my e-mail as a political forum, but this affects our livelihoods to a great degree so I’m making an exception. Please take this information into consideration when you go to the polls…our industry does not need this guy being groomed for the Governorship.”
What he said.
But if you think that’s bad, you ain’t seen nothing
yet. You simply are not going to believe
the absolutely jaw-dropping accusations a client of Hutchison’s law firm has
made. Here’s just a brief sample of what
you’re gonna find…
“I GUESS MARK HUTCHISON DOESN’T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE ON WELFARE AND HUNGRY WITHOUT FOOD TO EAT OR KNOWING WHEN YOUR NEXT MEAL IS GOING TO COME FROM!”
Read all about it here…
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