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With two leading 2012 GOP presidential contenders outed as adulterers, marriage equality is at hand
June 25, 7:57 AM · Ron Moore - Grassroots Politics Examiner
In just eight days, two leaders of the Republican Party, U.S. Senator John Ensign, Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, and Mark Sanford, Chairman of the Republican Governors Association have admitted to breaking their marriage vows. In both cases they did not repent or seek forgiveness until caught. Both men were leaders in the campaign to “protect the sanctity of marriage” whose foibles should transform the dynamics of the marriage equality debate as an object lesson in the dangers inherent to personal morality politics.
The attempts by the political right wing to redline love’s territory should be met with the same outrage as the chutzpah of the son who upon being charged with killing his parents pleads for mercy as an orphan. The slow ascendancy of marriage equality laws will become an unstoppable force if supporters so choose. But first they must change their rhetoric. They must frame their campaign’s mission as simply promoting marriage, period. Contrary to most political conventional wisdom they are in fact the pro-marriage side of the debate. But they must push back hard and accept victory when history offers it to them.
Who will take seriously the plaintive wails of Republican pols who decry the diminution of the American moral fiber by continuing to oppose monogamous marriage? Who will take a party seriously that still advances a serial adulterer, Newt Gingrich, who alone can lay claim to stooping to John Edwards lowly perch by cheating on his wife while she was suffering from cancer? Who will take seriously the pompous call against hate crimes when their leaders scoff at the lynching of a black man in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd and the lynching of a gay man in Wyoming, Matthew Shepherd?
It’s time to drop the talk of civil rights and equality and simply promote the benefits of marriage; for everyone. Pro-marriage legislation should be called the “Ensign-Sanford Marriage Protection Act” so they we never forget the danger of making personal morality a matter of political expediency.
How about it republicans, (Palin in 2012?)
June 25, 7:57 AM · Ron Moore - Grassroots Politics Examiner
In just eight days, two leaders of the Republican Party, U.S. Senator John Ensign, Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, and Mark Sanford, Chairman of the Republican Governors Association have admitted to breaking their marriage vows. In both cases they did not repent or seek forgiveness until caught. Both men were leaders in the campaign to “protect the sanctity of marriage” whose foibles should transform the dynamics of the marriage equality debate as an object lesson in the dangers inherent to personal morality politics.
The attempts by the political right wing to redline love’s territory should be met with the same outrage as the chutzpah of the son who upon being charged with killing his parents pleads for mercy as an orphan. The slow ascendancy of marriage equality laws will become an unstoppable force if supporters so choose. But first they must change their rhetoric. They must frame their campaign’s mission as simply promoting marriage, period. Contrary to most political conventional wisdom they are in fact the pro-marriage side of the debate. But they must push back hard and accept victory when history offers it to them.
Who will take seriously the plaintive wails of Republican pols who decry the diminution of the American moral fiber by continuing to oppose monogamous marriage? Who will take a party seriously that still advances a serial adulterer, Newt Gingrich, who alone can lay claim to stooping to John Edwards lowly perch by cheating on his wife while she was suffering from cancer? Who will take seriously the pompous call against hate crimes when their leaders scoff at the lynching of a black man in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd and the lynching of a gay man in Wyoming, Matthew Shepherd?
It’s time to drop the talk of civil rights and equality and simply promote the benefits of marriage; for everyone. Pro-marriage legislation should be called the “Ensign-Sanford Marriage Protection Act” so they we never forget the danger of making personal morality a matter of political expediency.
How about it republicans, (Palin in 2012?)
". It would really make my day a lot easier.
