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I have spoken this afternoon to Chairman Michael Steele and have received clarification from him as to his comments regarding the sanctity of life issue. I appreciate his candor and most of all his willingness to personally discuss this with me.
Michael affirms his pro-life commitment, including support for the party platform of a Constitutional amendment to protect life and his conviction that life begins at conception. The point he sought to make was that words like “choice” and “individual decisions” have been co-opted by the left, when in fact his mother made a choice as an individual—the CHOICE to give birth to him as an unmarried college student. It would have been easy for her to have made a choice to end his life, but she chose life.
Obviously, this is an issue which is very important to me and to many other conservatives and it was important for me to get this clarified. I’m grateful that Chairman Steele was willing to set the record straight without hesitation.
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Judge Deborah
03/17/2009 08:02 AM
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The only problem with this stock chart is that it's upside down!
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Patton, Andrew
03/16/2009 10:14 AM
Yes, Chuck, IUDs are abortificant. Indeed, all forms of contraception, save barrier methods, are abortificant in nature, even if only secondarily (the same hormones that interfere with ovulation and fertilization also harden the walls of the uterus to inhibit the ability of an already fertilized egg from attaching).
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Weller, Chuck
03/15/2009 08:29 PM
If you believe that life begins at conception, you must be opposed to intra-uterine devices which prevent a fertilized egg from implanting on the surface of the uterus.
This is probably the most satisfactory form of birth control available.
Is this also abortion?
Chuck Weller
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Defense, Marriage
03/15/2009 07:03 PM
I suggest Ken Blackwell to replace Michael Steele:
1. Blackwell, like Steele, is African-American so there wouldn't be any repurcussions over race.
2. Blackwell was one of the 4 finalist for the job in the first place, finishing fourth over all in the voting.
3. Blackwell was the key figure in Ohio passing it's constitutional amendment banning same sex marriageFinal candidates for RNC:
Michael Steele
Katon Dawson
Saul Anuzis
Ken Blackwell
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Gatchel, Nancy
03/15/2009 06:15 PM
To Rick Josey,
Speaking of "choice", it appears that this administration wants to remove the option of choice for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and hospitals - removing their ability to decline in taking part in the horrendous act elective abortion. Henceforth, overall healthcare will decline because many will refuse to practice at all if they're to be forced to perform this horrific procedure.
Honestly, I simply cannot understand how any born-again Christian could have voted for Obama. And those having buyer's remorse use the excuse "I never thought he'd be this way". For crying out loud, didn't they check his record? Didn't they listen to him? I just don't get it.
But nobody governs a nation without God's permission; that doesn't mean God endorses the candidate, just means that God's purpose will be fulfilled using whatever and whomever He thinks is necessary.
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Josey, Rick
03/15/2009 09:57 AM
One thing Republicans need to learn is how to deal with liberals. Not just the media, but liberal-minded people in general. And the key is to understand their mindset...
Those in the Democratic party love to INTIMIDATE conservatives (and thus silence them) by labeling them. They labeled Sarah Palin as an ignoramus, Mike Huckabee as a religious kook, John McCain as an out-of-touch geriatric, etc. And they slap labels on conservatives, to silence them and their opinions, because liberals are...
BULLIES.
Bullies. They love to control people, intimidate them, push them around. That's why on our site we recommend the book Take The Bully By The Horns. Once you learn how to deal with bullies, you can deal with the liberals.
A bully operates by conning you. But once you expose them and confront them with what they are doing, the con is over. And that smug little look on their face disappears. They've been caught!
The next time a liberal attempts to put you down for being a conservative, look at them, smile, and say something like "Oh, I see what you're doing. You're one of those liberals who loves to push people around. You don't really believe in free speech, do you." Watch their smugness disappear.
The whole "political correctness" movement was and is an attempt to silence the opposition with INTIMIDATION. By calling themselves "progressives" who are "correct" they are IMPLYING that conservatives are "backwards" and "incorrect." They are bullying us.
Expose the bully's tactics, call them on it. And expose the hypocrisy and illogic in their positions. They'll back down. After all, no bully enjoys losing a fight (argument). Back them down. When you stand up to a bully and beat them in a fight, the tuck tail and run. They've been whipped.
Republicans need to stand up, speak up and take on the bullies on the left. Their political policies are illogical and they don't practice what they preach. They say, for example, "No lobbyists in my administration." Then turn around and put 12 lobbyists in there.
Call them out.
Take a stand for liberty.
www.PatriotHangout.com
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Jill 4 America
03/15/2009 09:35 AM
Here is some good news and this song that George Beverly Shea sang. He is now celebrating his 100th birthday.
I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold;
I'd rather be His than have riches untold:
I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands.
I'd rather be led by His nail-pierced hand ...Then to be the king of a vast domain
Or be held in sin's dread sway.
I'd rather have Jesus than anything
This world affords today.I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause;
I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause;
I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide fame.
I'd rather be true to His holy name ...He's fairer than lilies of rarest bloom;
He's sweeter than honey from out the comb;
He's all that my hungering spirit needs.
I'd rather have Jesus and let Him lead ... -
Gatchel, Nancy
03/14/2009 10:01 PM
I was pretty sure that I understood where Chairman Steele stood on the abortion issue. Thanx, Gov., for confirming.
It seems that no matter what Michael says the media is all over it, including FOX. I ignore most of it. The stuff with Rush and so on - it's just blah, blah, blah. Too much sensationalism to suit me.
Undoing Roe v Wade is going to be a process; not something that we can undo overnight. I think Michael's on the right track. Of course, even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there. And that's my biggest concern.
We seem to have a lot "RINOs" amongst our party and they need to decide if they really still believe in our core values, and if not they need to find some other affiliation better suited to them.
Recently the NRCC asked me for a contribution, prior to the Omnibus bill I might add, and I committed to contribute. However, I'm now withdrawing my pledge due to pork requested by the Republican congress in that bill. I wrote Chairman Steele and informed him, also informing him that any pledge I make will be through HuckPAC. I know that I can trust the Gov. to support candidates that are committed to making appropriate decisions.
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Defense, Marriage
03/14/2009 08:29 PM
Peter Scofield
Thank you for your answer. I truly think The Federal Marriage Amendment will be passed. That will please you and that's good.
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Patriot Scofield
03/14/2009 07:53 PM
Defense,Marraige
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Defense, Marriage
03/14/2009 05:35 PM
People who support The Human Life Amendment and The Federal Marriage Amendment should work toward removing Michael Steele as head of the RNC.
Steele is not the leader of you (though he probably is a leader for several commenters on this site like Dr. David and some others).
You should call (at their 8oo numbers) and Email the big voices in the social conservative movement and tell them why Steele must go. It is absurd for the Chairmen of the RNC to be against the Human Life Amendment and The Federal Marriage Amendment. We need a chairman who will actively for the passage of these amendments.
You should call and Email:
- Tony Perkins and the Family ResearchCouncil
-Focus on the Family
-James Dobson
-Gary Bauer
-Ruch Limbaugh
-Sean Hannity
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Defense, Marriage
03/14/2009 03:36 PM
Peter Scofield
Are you in favor of The Federal Marriage Amendment?
Going on your statement below, I assume that you are against it, but if you would like to clarify otherwise, please do.
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Josey, Rick
03/14/2009 03:18 PM
One of the "unalienable rights" with which our Creator has endowed us is LIFE. That's why KILLING (aborting) a growing baby (fetus) is not only immoral, it violates our Declaration of Independence. Not to mention God's laws, which command us to "not murder."
It's amazing that those who harp about "choice" don't carry out their logic to the full extent. Does a man have the "choice" to murder that baby-aborting woman?
No? Why shoud SHE have the "choice" to kill a baby, but HE not have the "choice" to kill her? And does a serial-killer have the "choice" to kill anybody?
The day that the Republican party sanctions murder (excuse me, "choice") is the day it will lose its base. The Founding Fathers had it right, the Floundering Faithless are wrong.
God bless America. He who warned us not to "offend" one of the little ones will not tolerate their murder in the wombs.
Those who sanction abortion are not in step with those of us who believe in God, Scripture and the founding documents of this nation. You are welcome to join with us, but we will NEVER alter our commitment to this country's founding ideals.
Should the Republican Party ever decide to side with you, we will abandon it. Without hesitation.
www.PatriotHangout.com
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BDS
03/14/2009 03:13 PM
PRO-LIFE NOT JUST BIBLICAL, BUT SECULAR TOO
Elizabeth Miller:
Abortion is the "individual choice" to do what?
What dies during an abortion?
Should you have the "individual choice" to kill a three year-old?
Then why an unborn child?
Are there fundamental differences between an unborn child and a three year-old by which we should be allowed to take the life of the unborn? What are those differences?
Sure, many pro-lifers base their views on the Bible. However, there is a completely secular and robust case - the Bible not included - in defense of the unborn.
Which of you pro-choicers has the courage to examine the secular evidence?
* Nutshell (CLICK HERE).
* High-end academic treatment (CLICK HERE).
* Finally, my 2007 letter to Rudy Giuliani explaining that I could not vote for him (or any other candidate of his stripe) for this very issue.June 11, 2007
Mr. Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee, Inc.
295 Greenwich St, #371
New York, NY 10007Dear Mr. Giuliani:
Thank you for your desire to serve our country as its next president. Your effective leadership shown in times of peace and calamity coupled with your clarity and candidness on the imperative to defeat terrorists should be regarded as prerequisites for future presidents. If only on these criteria, I would vote for you in next year’s Republican primary election. All things considered, I cannot do so.
When the noblest aspirations of the human spirit were focused in July of 1776 onto the birth certificate of the United States of America, every word and its placement in that Declaration was deliberately and meticulously chosen: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” These words were the premise for a Revolution, the seed for Abolition, and the essence of the Civil Rights movement. As Abraham Lincoln put it, they “…shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.” Reverence for these self-evident truths is what makes America a “shining city upon a hill.” It is neither accidental nor trivial that Life is foremost among the unalienable rights; where one’s right to Life begins, the rights of others to Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness end. Therefore, when I evaluate political candidates against the “issues” which are relevant to the office that they seek, I am compelled to prioritize those issues by Life as the first principle. Presently, I find your stated “position” on abortion (“hate” it and “personally oppose” it as “immoral”, but defend “choice”) to be corrosive not only to the cardinal value of our Republic, but also to Reason itself. How then can I entrust to you the responsibility of Chief Executive of our Government?
If the pre-born is a human person, then doesn’t it stand that her right to Life is no more dependent upon a “choice” than is the right to Life of a three-year old? Certainly you would not publicly defend the decision of a mother to drown her children as “deeply personal” or “an issue of conscience.” Neither would you defend that crime on the conservative principle of “government staying out of people’s lives.” Inversely, if the pre-born is not a person, then to kill it is no more immoral or deserving of personal hatred than the extermination of roaches in one’s house. When Chris Wallace pressed you in a May 13 interview to explain how you can hold a personal view that seems to contradict your public policy, you replied, “Because I think having the child is a much better decision. I think it’s a much better moral decision. I think it’s much better for society.” What do you mean, sir, by “better for society”? Between a socially okay choice and a socially better one, why should one personally hate or oppose the okay choice?
When you were asked in the May 15 debate for your opinion of Mike Huckabee’s comparison of your position on abortion to an analogous position on slavery, your null answer was that there are “no circumstances under which [you] could possibly imagine anyone choosing slavery or supporting slavery.” The very reason you cannot imagine such a scenario in the present era is that 146 years ago, some courageous Americans acted upon the conviction that justice does not permit a “choice” on slavery; justice demanded more than mere personal opposition. Perhaps you are comfortable with your position on abortion by having persuaded yourself that the pre-born counts as a partial person. The fraction Three-fifths certainly has precedent. Even if you sincerely do not know whether the pre-born is a person with an inherent right to Life, does not that possibility merit an earnest effort to discover the truth of the matter? Did not rescue workers search diligently in the smoldering heap of the fallen Twin Towers, motivated only by the possibility that there was a human life in its bowels? Here, then, is the crux of the matter: What is the pre-born human?
Given that the pre-born person differs from all other persons only in size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency, do any of these four differences truly detract from its personhood? Is my three-year-old daughter sub-human because she is smaller than me? Is a little boy any less of a person than his teenage brother because he is less developed? Is there any place I can enter where, by virtue of being inside of it, I cease to be a person? Does one’s dependency upon injected insulin or dialysis or an artificial limb reduce him to a fraction of a person? Neither then is the pre-born anything less than a full person with an inherent right to Life. Our Declaration affirms not that all men are born equal or become equal, but that they are created equal.
I know you wish that I would simply “agree to disagree” with you on abortion for other issues, but to do so is exceedingly difficult because the “issue” of human Life sets the perspective for all issues, including:
* Iraq: In the four years that 3,500 precious American lives have perished in Iraq, over 5.4 million Americans have been lost on our soil to abortion (1.29 Million/year, www.guttmacher.org).
* Terrorism: We fight against Islamic extremism and the death it would bring, but legally protect to our peril another perverse ideology that has killed 7.4 million Americans since 9/11.
* Entitlements: The ratio of workers to retirees will narrow to three-to-one as the Baby Boomers retire. For every seven persons in my generation given live birth, three were electively aborted. Soon, those of us who survived will have to break our backs to prop up those who despised us.
* The Environment: We have begun a revolution to avert certain doom divined in atmospheric correlations, but we are reluctant to defend the pre-born person in the face of much more conclusive evidence.
* The Economy: Who knows that some of the 48 million pre-born Americans who have been extinguished since 1973 would not have grown up to cure AIDS or solve the world’s water shortage or colonize another planet or develop safe affordable energy?
But Life transcends statistics, utilitarianism and political issues. All of human Life is sacred.It came to light recently that you have donated money to Planned Parenthood six times. If you sincerely hate or are personally opposed to abortion, then shouldn’t the aid you gave to the champion of the abortion industry rather have gone to an adoption agency or to a pregnancy resource center like the one where my wife and I help young women to work out a viable alternative to abortion? Belief without action is worthless, but belief contradicted by action is either absurdity or deception. The next President will continue to shape the Federal judiciary that rules on cases concerning Life, and he or she will almost certainly have to decide whether to sign or veto a “Freedom of Choice Act” that is presently being pursued in some quarters of Congress. I want an executive in the Oval Office for whom Life is paramount, in policy as well as in personal belief. Between now and the primary elections, I will work hard to see that my party nominates a candidate who will defend Life as our Republic’s keystone value, vigorously protect our country from terrorists, and be able to win in November ’08.
Sincerely,
Brian Snow
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Jill 4 America
03/14/2009 02:48 PM
mxnwilson
03/14/2009 12:44 PMMaxine -
Good link there. I do not think that this story is going to go away. Give me a Hispanic, a Caucasian, an African-American, an Asian ....... I don't care ...... just give me somebody with some Godly Christian values and principles that runs deep in their inner core and that they don't wake up the next day wondering who they are and what they stand for. Again "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" ...
Michael Steele needs to be looking inward instead of trying to find someone else to kick !!!!If this is what our party is reduced to ... then let us just join the Democratic party. What's the use ! ........ I thought that was why we had two parties ... because they were suppose to be different. One for "Life" and the other for "Choice" ....
Like they say: If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
I am also reminded of:
Revelation 3:15,16
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.Accepting HuckPac donations here:
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SarahAnn
03/14/2009 02:40 PM
Elizabeth,
I do not know where you get what Republicans are all about... The Democrats are about a womens right to choose.. The Republicans , that are true Republicans , believe that abortions are murder, to an unborn child.. And, it is no diff. than choosing to take a childs life after they are born....Murder, is murder... And, if we do not respect the life of an unborn child.. We will have no respect for life , at all... GOD is the one that gives life, and GOD is the one that should take it......
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Miller, elizabeth
03/14/2009 01:45 PM
Finally we hear a Republican talking like a Republican should – given our principles. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that abortion should be an “individual choice.” He is right and he is right to say that as a Republican. Keep government (and keep the bible) out of our decisions and our lives. That is the true Republican way. If those who profess to be true Republicans spent a bit of time understanding the principles and foundational ideas of the Republican Party, they would find out that one key principle is to keep the government out of our lives, our houses, our families, and let us have liberty. The only way you do that is to stand up for “individual choice” in ALL areas, not just a few. Thanks Michael Steele for sticking to true Republican values and principles!
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mxnwilson
03/14/2009 12:44 PM
It seems the disappointments are continuing to mount. He claims he has been talking to God about the situation, but that seems doubtful to me.
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Judge Deborah
03/14/2009 10:31 AM
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Jill 4 America
03/14/2009 09:37 AM
Peter Scofield -
What power there is in a "few words" ...
Thank-you, and you also are "Blessed" !
D'Ann Matthews -I am pondering that question myself. Was Steele not totally vetted beforehand or is this the party that the GOP really wants to be?
Seems as though that Steele let the cat out of the bag and so early on. Hard to put it back in the bag once it is out. To me, he said a "mouthful" for it to be construed any other way. Thanks for spending time on the phone with the RNC. It is always nice to know that there is an Army of Christians out there, like yourself that are in the trenches working with us here on HuckPac.R23777
God is Love
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Patriot Scofield
03/14/2009 12:55 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY GOD HAS MADE....LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE IN IT!!!!
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Patriot Scofield
03/14/2009 12:50 AM
Jill 4 America! AMEN! A person that will STICK to it! You are Blessed Jill!
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Patriot Scofield
03/14/2009 12:48 AM
Defense Marriage, Please understand that I hold my tongue alot because those of many words are not without sin. I Understand that the words that I write here, tonight, will be judged by God Himself. I love you Defense for Marriage, and so does God. By the tone of your words YOU have NO DEFENSE. One word of wisdom to you my child, let go and LET GOD! Amen!
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Matthews, D'Ann
03/13/2009 11:25 PM
I was on the phone with the RNC for some time today - apparently there are a great number of people who are calling and emailing them regarding Mr Steele.
One almost has to wonder sometimes if the Republican Party is trying to destroy itself from within...and/or if they even have a clue...
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Oil Hand
03/13/2009 10:48 PM
Thank you Mike for this. It makes me feel much better.
Every one should take him at his word and show support in an even stronger way for his efforts to get things going fast and in the right direction.
Glen
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Jill 4 America
03/13/2009 10:13 PM
A V Fundamentalist -
that was a great article on MR. Doesn't sound like he has learned any lessons from the primaries a year ago. ha!
Keep up the good work on HA !
God is Love
GO Huckabee GO - 2012 !
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Defense, Marriage
03/13/2009 08:24 PM
What Steele is doing on a national level is typical of what social liberals are trying to do on this site.
Dr. David finally admitted that he is not in favor of The Federal Marriage amendment.
That's not a surprise. There is no other reason that he would have reacted with such defensive emotion and so hysterically attacked me when I asked him for his position.
I expect his admission is a surprise to some people here, and that likely is why he has been trying to hide his true position on it to the others here.
He also has admitted that he is trying to push Mike Huckabee away from his support for The Federal Marriage Amendment.
These are some of his own words on the subject in answering a question about it from Celeste, Deford, on the open thread.
"Doctor David
03/12/2009 10:36 PM
. . . they (The FMA and the Human Life Amendment) would be a symptom of his intention, if elected, to insinuate Christianity into the Federal government.
But, for me, the question reduces to whether he should continue to feature support for those amendments as a central part of any future campaign, if it makes it easier for Democratic opponents to paint him as a theocrat. If his support would hurt his election chances, I would advise that the subject be de-emphasized until after he takes office.
PS I could write a whole book on why the question of "are you for it or against it?" is an overly simplistic one, that falls apart as soon as you begin to look at issues in reality instead of through the prism of the ideologue's handbook. . .
I am pretty sure that Mike's popularity decreased during the 2008 campaign when he announced his support for those amendments. . . . "Those are his own words on it. No getting around it. He is against the Federal Marriage Amendment. He is trying to stop Mike Huckabee from supporting it.
He also has made the completely erroneous statement that this support for it caused Mike's popularity to decrease. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the exact opposite. It was Mike's support for the amendment at the time Fred Thompson came out against it that caused his popularity to skyrocket from 1% in the polls up to the point where he won the Iowa cauceses.
Dr. David clearly clearly has been trying to mislead people here, both about what he is and is not for, as well as about the effect of Mike Huckabees support of The Federal Marriage Amendment on his popularity.
Dr. David and the other sneaky social liberals here will not persuade Mike Huckabee to go against his basic values.
I am the one who is defending Mike Huckabee and his values. They are the ones who is trying to subvert him.
It was obvious to me when I started reading the comments of several of them here a few days ago. I'm glad Dr. David finally was able to get himself to admit it (even if he was not really intending to come out and say what he did.)
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AV Fundamentalist
03/13/2009 08:03 PM
“Mitt Romney Continues to Flip Flog like a Fish Out of Water”
Insider: Romney flops at Club for Growth meeting
http://www.gop12.com/2009/03/insider-romney-flops-at-club-for-growth.html
http://forum.hucksarmy.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=18907-AV Fundamentalist
II Chronicles 7:13 - 14
"If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called, by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." -
Defense, Marriage
03/13/2009 07:08 PM
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9881
The above link is to a very good blog article written by an African-American woman criticizing Michael Steele for his comments in GQ.
It gives this exchange from the interview, in which Steele come down firmly against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
"So you think it's a state issue?
Absolutely. Just as a general principle, I don't like mucking around with the Constitution. I'm sorry, I just don't. I think, you know, in a pluralistic, dynamic society as the one that we have, every five years you can have a constitutional convention about something, you know? I don't think we should be, you know, dancing around and trying to amend it every time I've got a social issue or a political issue or a business issue that I want to get addressed. Having said that, I think that the states are the best laboratory, the best place for those decisions to be made, because they will then reflect the majority of the community in which the issue is raised. And that's exactly what a republic is all about."Steele is the same guy who recently started a big turmoil by criticizing Ruch Limbaugh. No coincidence.
It's also similar to the kind of criticizm that is coming from social liberals here on this site.
The Christian right lead by Gary Bauer, Dr. Dobson, Tony Perkins and others is not going to allow this to stand (as Bush 1 said about Iraq's invasion of Kuwait).
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Schwendemann, Sharon
03/13/2009 06:34 PM
Gov. Huckabee tonight on Hannity.
Friday 8 pm central
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Jill 4 America
03/13/2009 06:12 PM
Go vote here -
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Poll.aspx?ekfrm=450490
Do comments like Michael Steele's help or hinder the prospects of the Republican Party regaining a majority status on Capitol Hill?
Help - 3.52%
Hinder - 90.10%
Neither (no effect) - 6.38%
5739 responsesI voted "Hinder" ..... that's my story and I am sticking to it.
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Also find this article at the same link:Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is under fire from social conservatives for telling GQ magazine that abortion is an "individual choice" and homosexuality is not.
Despite declaring to GQ that women have the right to choose an abortion, Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele has issued a statement saying he has always been pro-life and supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs for Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action, says in Steele's interview with GQ, he "sounded like he was on the payroll of Planned Parenthood."
"I'm encouraged that Michael Steele is on record now in support of the human life amendment. However, for the life of me I cannot imagine why he would have chosen to use the euphemistic language of choice. That's language that they came up with in the smoky back room of Planned Parenthood somewhere to try to hide the reality of what abortion is," he contends. "There is no such thing as pro-choice. You're either pro-abortion or anti-abortion."
Barber admits he is also troubled that Steele told GQ that believing homosexuality is a choice is equivalent to saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm going to stop being black."
"I am starting to wonder whether Michael Steele is on the payroll of the RNC or whether he's on the payroll of the [Democratic National Committee], because that sounds like something that Howard Dean or any spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign or the radical homosexual lobby would have said," he adds. "There's no science to support the notion that people are born homosexual."
Barber says it appears Steele and the Republican Party are going to continue making the same mistakes that landed them in the minority and are causing them to "spiral into the abyss of political irrelevancy." -
Fisher, Seth
03/13/2009 05:34 PM
*********ALERT*************
This is REAL legislation!
PLEASE READ AND PLEASE ACT!
http://ronpaulnews.net/2009/03/monsantos-dream-bill-hr-875.html
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=12671
HR 875 The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard
gardener, and violation of the 10th amendmenthttp://www.govit.com/vote/comments.aspx?bill=2009-hr-875
HR 875
To establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health
and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne
illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants
leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rosa L. DeLauro (D) CTcomments
"This bill is not what it appears to be. It would create a whole new
bureaucracy to oversee agriculture throughout the USA. That bureaucracy
would inevitably be co-opted by the agribusiness and GMO lobbies and would
make organic farming and distribution of organic products illegal.Don't be tricked by the name of this turkey. Vote it down!"
"This proposed legislation is so broadly written that it could leave the
door open to make it ILLEGAL to grow your own food on your own property, for
your own consumption!"
Bills are:
House H.R. 875
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-875Senate S 425
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-425
IF YOU LIKE A GARDEN OR BUY ORGANIC FOOD YOU BETTER GET ON THAT PHONE TO YOUR CONGRESS!
There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening.
Main backer and lobbyist is Monsanto.
Bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to "make sure there is no danger to the public food supply".
This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected diseases in humans.
Please call Congress and tell them NO!
This is a freedom we don't need taken away! -
Seed Sower
03/13/2009 05:28 PM
Maxine,
It seems to me that compromising is why we have this mess. Where does the Lord tell us to compromise? This is just so sad. They are leaning on their own understanding of how they have to be to win. Where is their faith? I agree about Steele he doesn't sound like he is the right leader. He wants to compromise our values. I believe our forefathers would turn over in their graves if they knew how those before us started compomising what this Nation is suppose to be about.I truly do believe we are in a Judgement of the Nations.
Have a blessed day! Thanks for just listening to me unloading. Your sister in Christ!
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Dr. David
03/13/2009 05:22 PM
Olde Sarge 03/13 1:12 pm. Beautifully said, with one exception. There is an Abe Lincoln in the Republican party, and his name is Mike Huckabee. He just needs to make sure that HE is not hijacked by the Republican ideologues who want to force everything to the extreme on the right.
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Seed Sower
03/13/2009 05:09 PM
busch, calvin
03/13/2009 09:38 AMI don't want to hurt or embarrass you and I do appreciate your opinion but isn't what you are saying sort of like saying:
I have always been against murder, but I believe we are all moral agents. I certainly don't want to see someone to decide to murder but then that will be between that individual and God. Politically I just don't want to have to pay for them to be murdered. You said we already have laws against murder but people still murder. Don't we arrest murders? And if we know someone is going to murder someone, don't we try to stop it from happening?
Some would disagree with me but I believe that if it is a mater of the mother dying than she should have a choice. There's not much of that today. In case of a rape a D and C right after. But it should never have been for birth control. Anymore than just going out and killing people to thin out the population when we think it's too high.
Have a blessed day! God bless you!
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Defense, Marriage
03/13/2009 04:49 PM
No more soft shoe dancing with Michael Steele. Michael Steele either needs to clearly restate his position on two key issues or he needs to step down. It's that simple.
In the GQ interview he not only made his controversial statement on choice, he also said he was against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
The last time the FMA was up for a vote, only four Republican senators were against it. All of the others voted for it. Three of the four who voted against it were socially liberal Republicans from the Northeast and the fourth was moderate McCain. That vote against the FMA costs McCain a lot of votes in the November election.
It is an outrage that the Chairman of the Republican party is against The Federal Marriage Amendment
Either he changes his position or he has to go.
How come nobody knew this before now?
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BDS
03/13/2009 04:43 PM
The GOP is in its worst crisis since 1974, and now our leaders have to spend time extricating the chairman's foot from his mouth - time distracted from pushing back against the Marxist onslaught.
Even if you believe Chairman Steele's explanation, you would hope for some one more circumspect, with a tighter rein on his tongue.
We're tired of playing defense - especially over our leaders' needless screw-ups. When are we gonna start playing some offense?
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AV Fundamentalist
03/13/2009 03:46 PM
Well said, Alan for Huck. Amen.
Jill for Huckabee: You are right. We should stop fooling around with socialist, liberalist agenda and start standing up for biblical principles.-AV Fundamentalist
II Chronicles 7:13 - 14
"If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called, by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." -
Sarge, Olde
03/13/2009 01:12 PM
All the broohaha amongst 'conservatives' regarding Steele's public comments shows just how out of touch they are when it comes to the American people, in general. People, as individuals, are very difficult to pigeon hole. It is the sum of the full spectrum of their opinions that leads them toward the 'right' or the 'left'.
Chairman Steele is trying to bring his party back to just right of center where the lion's share of the American people may be found. He is trying to get the party back into the mainstream of America and out of the shoals of right wing ideology.
Why must a political party be built around single issues? What makes "conservatives" think that all conservative minded folks are of the same ilk? It is possible to be heterogeneously conservative rather than monolithicly conservative. Single issue partisans are the worst kind, whether left or right.
Governing is about compromise. The U.S. is never going back to banning abortion in all cases. As a matter of fact, it is highly unlikely that meaningful restrictions will ever be placed that 'conservatives' will accept.
So, what is the most constructive thing conservative minded adults can do? Perhaps, they can raise their own families better. Maybe, they can walk the walk as well as they talk the talk. Too many 'conservatives' are situational ethicists. They preach one line of reasoning for everyone else and adhere to a completely different line when it comes to their own lives.
There are no Abraham Lincolns or Teddy Roosevelts left in the Republican party. They were driven out long ago by all the 'conservatives'. There is no room for reason anywhere within the Republican party. Everyone must fall in behind the fascists who have hijacked the party.
I am so sick of Republicans. Will someone start a Common Sense Party? That's what we need!
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Grover, Jenn
03/13/2009 12:57 PM
Thanks for posting the Chairman's clarification. When I heard his remarks, I was completely bewildered. If you do any investigation into Michael Steele's record, you will find that he has been strongly pro-life throughout his entire career, thus my bewilderment. This is in stark contrast to Gov. Romney's pro-life "conversion" experience.
I believe that Chairman Steele's values can be trusted. Supporting Mike and HuckPAC are great, but it's not enough. The Democrats are killing our ground game. republicans are not working together at any level from the local, to the county, to the state, all of the way to the federal level. It's time for Republicans to rally around the party platform, generate new ideas, and work together. If you really support Governor Huckabee, then you will follow his example by getting involved the GOP within your sphere if influence. For most of us that is at the local and county levels.
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Thayer, Dan
03/13/2009 12:50 PM
You've got to be kidding me. If that is what Mr. Steele meant, then he should have said that in the interview. He knows what position he holds and what influence his words have on the party AND the opposition. His wording in the interview are very clear. And what of his stance on homosexuality? How is he going to try and recall those words or defend that stance? I can't believe that this is just going to be smoothed over and forgotten. How can I put trust in a party that has people in leadership that don't agree with the party. Don't get me wrong, I will still vote Republican and am not ever going to defect to the liberal side, but we need to get STRONG leadership in place or else we are never going to go anywhere as a party or a nation.
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mxnwilson
03/13/2009 12:43 PM
Greg Cherry--I know what you mean, as I read somemore comments he had made in the same interview, and he attempted to answer another controversial issue. He stated that trying to change from a gay lifestyle would be like his trying to change from black to white.
It seems he is trying to be kind to those with different opinions, but is doing a very poor job of it. And while I wouldn't want to just throw Michael Steele under the bus, I think that maybe he's just not the leader that would be best for the RNC.
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Harden, James
03/13/2009 11:11 AM
I am so fed up with the GOP, You have this guy as head of the party and John McCain trying to make nice with the Dem's. These and other do not represent the core Reagan principles and core conservative beliefs. RNC DO NOT ASK ME FOR MONEY UNTIL YOU GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
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busch, calvin
03/13/2009 09:38 AM
I have always been against abortion, but I beleive we are all free moral agents. I certainly don't want to see someone have an abortion rather than adopt out the poor child. But if someone decides to have one then that will be between that individual and God (and the baby I realize, but let's face it the person that is murdered kinda gets left out of the argument too). Politically I just don't want to have to pay for the attrocity. We already have laws against murder but people still murder. Same for abortion.
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busch, calvin
03/13/2009 09:36 AM
I have always been against abortion, but I beleive we are all free moral agents. I certainly don't want to see someone have an abortion rather than adopt out the poor child. But if someone decides to have one then that will be between that individual and God (and the baby I realize, but let's face it the person that is murdered kinda gets left out of the argument too). Politically I just don't want to have to pay for the attrocity. We already have laws against murder but people still murder. Same for abortion.
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Cherry, Greg
03/13/2009 07:19 AM
I appreciate Governor Huckabee giving Mr. Steele an opportunity to "clarify" but there have been several instances where statements he has made run counter to conservative principles. I have serious reservations about the GOP unless they are very clear on where the party stands and that of their leadership not only on the abortion/sanctity of life issue but on homosexuality, traditonal marriage, and enforcing our borders NOW!
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OneMom
03/13/2009 01:07 AM
Governor ... please tell me you're not falling for the pathetic excuse Steele is giving. There is no way that anyone would ever misunderstand your viewpoint on the right to life, because it is your heart's conviction. The fact that Steele could be "misunderstood" at all, shows he is just paying lip-service to social conservatives. I am very concerned about the direction of the GOP.
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SSC - Hardcore Texan
03/13/2009 12:40 AM
I had great hopes for Michael Steele to be a very effective, inspiring and uniting leader for the party. I am willing to give him another chance and hope he will be more consistent in the future.
Is Rush Limbaugh on the record for supporting an amendment tothe Constitution that life begins at conception?
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Novak, Alexander
03/12/2009 11:48 PM
Dear Governor,
I feel that Michael Steele is another flip flopper Republican and he needs to go.
Better to cut him loose now, then wait until he promotes more moderate or left leaning ideals.
Remember, one of your strongest appeals is that you promote the sancity of life. You are our strongest voice in protecting the unborn and for Steele to obviously voice that he believes in 'choice' speaks volumes that he does not have those same values and should not be our RNC chair.
He needs to go, now!!
Thank you,
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