http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/07/19/3682221/same-sex-marriage-iowa/
AMES, IA — At the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa on Saturday, Republican presidential candidates made it clear to social conservatives and evangelicals that they’re not going to give up their fight against same-sex marriage.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month legalizing same-sex marriage across the country, the Republican Party has been split between those who recognize that the country should accept the decision and move on, and those who will keep pushing to abolish the high court, allow states to ban same-sex marriage, or to “resist and reject judicial tyranny.”
“It was sad to see more than a few Republicans, including more than a few 2016 candidates, publicly saying it’s the law of the land, it’s settled, surrender and move on,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said during the event. “There is something profoundly wrong when republicans running for president are reading from Barack Obama’s talking points.”
The event featured 10 presidential hopefuls interviewed by Republican political consultant Frank Luntz. Between candidates, conservative leaders invoked religion and spoke about the need for the next president to support socially conservative ideologies.
Brian Brown, president of anti-same sex marriage group National Organization for Marriage, condemned the Supreme Court’s decision and said the fight must continue.
Brian Brown, president of anti-same sex marriage group National Organization for Marriage, condemned the Supreme Court’s decision and said the fight must continue.
“Did Frederick Douglass give up when he was fighting against slavery?” Brown asked the audience.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker also repeated his call for a constitutional amendment which would allow states to decide whether or not to allow same-sex marriage. “I believe marriage is between one man and one woman,” he said, adding that he’s had that opinion for more than 20 years.
He later told CNN that he is unsure if being gay is a choice.
Since losing the battle against gay marriage in the Supreme Court, some Republican Party leaders have said the fight should move to preserving “religious liberty.” Conservatives in Indiana attempted to pass a “religious freedom” law earlier this year which would allow businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, but lawmakers in Indiana and other states quickly backed down after backlash from the public.
Some candidates at Saturday’s summit also spoke about the need to pass these laws, appealing to the evangelical audience. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal talked about the executive order he signed after the state legislature failed to pass a law that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples.
alright what is the big deal about Iowa all we ever hear about them is right wing support of all their racist, bigoted, hate but i'm still searching for why these people have done nothing to them nor do they know them yet the want to pass ;laws to infringe on their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness all the while talking about saving their right to religious freedom that same religious freedom they are using to try to kill those same rights for others.
passing laws to discriminate when the law strictly forbids it, this is what that "send it back to the states elephant dung is all about statwide subjugation by a faux religious cult, that gives them the right to spread that dung all over you and your rights.
Jidal leading a fight when he denied his constituents evangelical ones too healthcare then had the audacity to beg for federal money for healthcare but will only except monies not associated with ObamaCares, last i heard beggars can't be choosey,
IMO hypocritical beggars shouldn't get gnat crap, but those people suffering are American citizens not republican citizens so this admin will help them vote the others in 2016 and they are short. got off track but it to is insulting and rears it's ugly head in the form of racism to compare today's obstructions by republicans as anything related to the past atrocity's of their ancestors. there is no comparison to anything in our history that comes close to what they did with slavery.
