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Bobby Jindal: Republicans Can Continue Discriminating Against Gays And Still Win Elections

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Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) — a possible Republican candidate for president in 2016 — rejected former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s argument that conservatives must embrace marriage equality for gays and lesbians if they want to survive as a party and reiterated his support for “traditional marriage.”

“Look, I believe in the traditional definition of marriage,” Jindal said during an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, and went on to claim that Republicans don’t have to make the case on social issues to attract young voters and win future elections and instead should continue focusing on economic issues. “We lost [the 2012 election] because we didn’t present a vision showing how we believe the entire economy can grow, how people can join the middle class. We’re in aspirational party and we need policies that are consistent with that aspirational private sector growth.”

In an essay for The American Conservative entitled “Marriage Equality Is a Conservative Cause,” Huntsman — a Mormon whose previous support for civil unions set him apart from Republican presidential candidates in 2012 — argued that if the Republican Party wants to survive, it must enhance its appeal to gay Americans and the growing majority that supports marriage equality.

“[I]t’s difficult to get people even to consider your reform ideas if they think, with good reason, you don’t like or respect them,” Huntsman wrote. “Building a winning coalition to tackle the looming fiscal and trust deficits will be impossible if we continue to alienate broad segments of the population….Consistent with the Republican Party’s origins, we must demand equality under the law for all Americans.”

Polls show that most Americans support marriage equality, with many telling pollsters that their minds have evolved on the issue.
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43 comments // Bobby Jindal: Republicans Can Continue Discriminating Against Gays And Still Win Elections

  • mitekillem
  • FreeSpiritMuse
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      FreeSpiritMuse  

    • I see Mishima having little defense for the Jindal statement, has successfully created his own topics through inquiry (BAIT), thus engaging (TRAPPING), the Current Community into creating a SUB-thread.

    • 3 months ago
  • mrpuma2u
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • I beg to differ with Mr. Jindal. This is the guy who says the GOP has to stop being the party of stupid? Obviously, he didn't get his own memo.

    • 3 months ago
  • hawk5000
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      hawk5000  

    • Do these talking heads ever think about what they are going to say before they open there mouths? Have none of the GOP leaders bothered to do a postmortem on there 2012 campaign?

    • 3 months ago
  • MSII
  • letsliveinpeace
  • alexandrekBack
  • freecrack
    • +3
      freecrack  

    • sure they can, as their method is to appeal to the stupid.

      you can do anything you want when you appeal to the stupid.it is why one appeals to the stupid in the first place.

    • 3 months ago
  • Mishima
  • sedwin
  • mitekillem
    • +1
      mitekillem  
    • sedwin:

      No, those are Pro-Murder laws that Republicans support.
      The unborn fetus is the most precious thing to them...then when it's born, they have no problem taking food from it's mouth [defunding schools, decreased regulations in foreign trading, decreasing welfare/social security benefits]. Nor do they have a problem with the child dies from illness [trying to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, defunding medicare]. Nor do they care if the child dies from disease [defunding the EPA, FDA, Consumer Protections], gets shot [decreasing gun regulations], or if their parents loose their home [lax banking regulations].

      It seems to me the ONLY time Republicans care about people is in those 9 months before they are born, right after they were formally known as sperm or egg.
      Never have I seen such blatant hypocrisy, at such an extent, only to see them undo the thing which they sought to protect moments later. It is the literal definition of idiocy and stupidity.

    • 3 months ago
  • gump
    • +1
      gump  
    • sedwin:

      mishima is a shill within a shill wrapped in another shill. Even onions have more honest humanity between each layer. He is a camelion. Pushing his books of purposely driven inaccuracies. A borge's borge.Hope I don't get kicked out for noteing that reality. Just mentioned it to you because you seem new to me. If you want to see someone who is like mishima ,but who is on tv , watch that guy called krouthammer on PBS. A pychologist gone mad for the money and notoriety in his quest for position as the top apologist for big money interests versus humanity's fortune or prosperity.

    • 3 months ago
  • bike10
  • keithponder
    • +4
      keithponder  

    • Bobby Jindal representing Louisiana has never made a bit of sense to me. Bobby Jindal trying to speak for America will never a make any sense to me.

    • 3 months ago
  • Mishima
    • -3
      Mishima [removed]  
    • keithponder:

      What do you think of the venerable Jindal's proposal for women to be able to get birth control pills without prescriptions?

      The LEFT-WINGERS screamed and yelled about that one. Can you guess why?

      Well, it was because if it is simply over-the-counter, then the LIBERALS cannot FORCE taxpayers to pay for their desire to have sex without responsibility or consequences. The taxpayers will not longer have to fund this behavior. And the buyers will be free to buy, no restrictions (possibly age, but Liberals would give them out free to middle-schoolers, of course).

    • 3 months ago
  • keithponder
  • Mishima
    • -3
      Mishima [removed]  
    • keithponder:

      {What do you think about minors buying liquor or lowering the driver age to 12 years old, or better yet, what do you think about no background check before selling a firearm to anyone that walks in to buy one. ?}

      Not good ideas. The driving age should probably be over 16, and the voting age should be raised to 25. Of course, background checks should be made, along with requiring photo IDs for people to VOTE, and if they are too lazy and irresponsible to get the free IDs available, they shouldn't vote either.

      Why do you ask these questions?

    • 3 months ago
  • keithponder
  • mitekillem
  • Culdee
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      Culdee  

    • Realistically, it seems to be true. I doubt the GOP can ever come back without embracing equality. They fought the fight and now it's time to realize America has decided and they lost.

    • 3 months ago
  • Mishima
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      Mishima [removed]  
    • Culdee:

      The Supreme Court will decide - possibly as early as June - if the will of the people will be superceded by the courts. The court is hearing whether California's proposition- in which the voters wanted to have male-female marriage the only one recognized - is Constitutional.

      This will probably end the debate.

    • 3 months ago
  • Mishima
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      Mishima [removed]  
    • Culdee:

      { I doubt the GOP can ever come back without embracing equality.}

      To what kind of equality are you referring? I hope you do not mean special group rights. I hope you do not mean giving in to people, simply to win. I prefer to lose and keep my morals, dignity, and sanity. I will never give in.

    • 3 months ago
  • bailey78
    • +1
      bailey78  
    • Mishima:

      morals, dignity, and sanity

      as best we can tell you have neither you are here to cause disorder and nothing more. that in it's self says more than any words you type.

    • 3 months ago
  • Mishima
  • bailey78
  • Mishima
  • bailey78
    • +3
      bailey78  
    • Mishima:

      why so you can flag me and have me removed from the site ?? I know what your plan is and i will not fall for it. Better yet just say I can use your real name to post it and I will do just as you wish. But unless I can use your real name I will just sit here and know who and what you are.

    • 3 months ago
  • bailey78
  • MSII
  • Culdee
    • -1
      Culdee  
    • Mishima:

      "To what kind of equality are you referring? I hope you do not mean special group rights."

      No, absolutely not. I was referring to the Constitutions lack of definition of marriage. The founders would have thought it was crazy that they would need to define it.

      Overall, I believe it should be left to the states since, as I just stated, the Constitution does not define it. And so by enumeration, the definition of marriage belongs to the states.

    • 3 months ago
  • bailey78
  • buddhawoman
    • +3
      buddhawoman  

    • Just the true colors of the GOP. RNC and most of all the tea party...Tea party are rule the GOP and there thinking..But big corportion and the wealthy. Granted the DNC also have members whom don't belive in gays in Washington..The times are changing for the best of this country...

    • 3 months ago
  • bailey78
  • FreeSpiritMuse
    • +2
      FreeSpiritMuse  
    • bailey78:

      They remain in denial, not understanding or accepting that times have changed, people have changed and the world has changed. They continue making up stories about why they lost, instead of facing up to the fact their candidate and their party is simply out of touch with the times. Mitt Romney and his 47% comment explained it all.

    • 3 months ago
  • MSII
  • bailey78
  • Mishima
  • cpad
    • +4
      cpad  

    • Yeah right. You go for it, Bobby, and see how far you get. The tide has turned and Americans will no longer tolerate discrimination against their LGBT brothers and sisters.

    • 3 months ago
  • MSII
  • FreeSpiritMuse
    • +2
      FreeSpiritMuse  
    • cpad:

      The Log Cabin Republicans have their work cut out for them.

      Log Cabin Republicans are proud members of the GOP who believe inclusion wins. Log Cabin works to build a stronger, more inclusive Republican Party by promoting the core values of limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free markets and a strong national defense while advocating for the freedom and equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans

    • 3 months ago
  • FreeSpiritMuse
  • MSII
    • +3
      MSII  
    • FreeSpiritMuse:

      The very saddest of the sick sad right-wing-corporate-FASCIST-party, people living with some kind of self-hate just has to be. They can't someone not know their "party" loathes them and thinks they should die and burn in jezuz's right-wing-hell. Major cognitive dis-connect going on there.

    • 3 months ago

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