REPUBLICANS BACK GAY MARRIAGE?

There is a case pending before the Supreme Court about gay marriage or more specifically if California’s Proposal 8 blocking the legalization of gay marriage was constitutional.

There are a couple of interesting points to this case and one is that when Proposal 8 was voted in as an amendment to California’s constitution in 2008, a majority of Californians obviously felt that gay marriage is a no-no. Here we are in 2013 and a majority of Californians now feel it is a constitutional right…what a difference 5 years makes.

What happened?

Also interesting is that over 100 prominent Republicans including Jon Huntsman (our next president) and Clint Eastwood of all people, have signed a petition that was sent to the Supreme Court, in favor of legalizing gay marriage.

Actually, Republicans who favor small government and always preach that government should not interfere in people’s lives have always been quite hypocritical with their stance on abortion and gay marriage; so what has changed?

Well nothing has changed as far as the far right Republicans are concerned. Those religious nuts will always wear their religion on their sleeves and try to cram their beliefs and values down everybody’s throats but losing the last election has many younger and smarter Republicans thinking that a change is needed if they are to get power back.

I have read a number of opinions that state that if Republicans give up their Neanderthal ideas about social issues or at least allow society to handle them instead of trying to legislate them; they would be in power permanently because then they would be true LIBERTARIANS.

Americans are fiscally conservative and feel Republicans could handle economic issues better than tax and spend Democrats but they are also or are becoming also, social liberals or at least moderates (live and let live) and more and more feel that social issues are not political issues…any more.

After the last Republican primary where Romney had to make himself into a dumb-ass religious kook to win the primary but lose the national election; many Republicans now probably feel that they don’t have to convince the religious right that they are true religious nuts like they are but start playing to the wider American audience which desires a moderate in all respects.

Californians changed dramatically in 5 years as far as their feelings about legalizing gay marriage and I suspect the whole nation has also.