Congressman Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, reaffirms his support for marriage in light of Obama's flip flop on the issue:
Congressman Ben Quayle, Republican candidate for Arizona's newly drawn 6th District, today re-stated his opposition to same-sex marriage. He also said that President Barack Obama's announcement this week that he now supports same-sex marriage was "one of the most cynical and manipulative political stunts ever pulled by an American president."
"The president is wrong about the issue; marriage should remain as it has always been - between one man and one woman," said Quayle. "But his conduct has been cynical and manipulative because of the obvious calculation and political maneuvering he has demonstrated on a matter of great importance in our nation. The president is a world-class propagandist, and in this case he propagandizes even his own supporters."
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He's an idiot. Even more so than his father.
Man, NOM must be desperate if they wave around this endorsement. Who next, Bozo the Clown?
He doesn't know his history if he says it's ALWAYS been between ONE man and ONE women...there are polygamous states to this day.That it unite male to female (whether or not one of each) is the critical factor.
Quayle does a great job pointing out how Obama is victimizing his own supporters.
The president has managed to dupe the far-left segment of his base by endorsing ssm, while neglecting to both declare it a constitutional right and give concrete solutions on how he plans to achieve the establishment of that right.
By claiming the issue should be decided by the states, Obama has managed to--as Quayle put it--shake loose money from his supporters, without addressing the core issue, or making serious commitments.
He may have caused a lot of fanfare by announcing that he agrees with ssm; but, technically, Obama still in the wink and nod phase. The only significant differences between now and the time period before he endorsed ssm, is that he has managed to further rile up conservatives, slight the traditional base of his party, and cement in the minds of the public that he is nothing more than a political opportunist.
As Quayle said, it is "one of the most cynical and manipulative political stunts ever," but the victims are his own party!
Hear hear, Rep Quayle, glad to see he's on this. He would be a great Rep to introduce the legislation to preserve marriage as the right to conceive offspring together and to prohibit creating people by any means other than joining the sperm of a man and the egg of a woman.
No states should allow labs to make babies for same-sex couples or clone people or engineer designer babies, and no state should deny any married couples the right to attempt to conceive offspring using their own genes. These are federal issues, Congress needs to act ASAP, before the election if possible.
@ John Howard
Nice and clear second paragraph. A good “heads up” call on your part. On board all the way. Even though here we're off the issue of the definition of marriage. I would not say the states should not allow it, but simply that the country should not allow it! (Or the western civilization.) But now where taking on the medical and pharmaceutical world; and they will make the gay movement and its promoters and lobbyists look like an amateur little league; or rather a practical tool used by the former.