As Cliff Kincaid noted in a recent column,

Only six of 54 Republican members of the Senate signed a pro-traditional marriage legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that was submitted on Friday. USA Today noted, “By contrast, 44 Democratic senators and 167 Democratic House members filed a brief last month urging the court to approve same-sex marriage. The brief included the full House and Senate [Democratic] leadership teams.”

Who were these six Republicans who were actually willing to stand up for the documented Republican value of marriage?

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas
Senator Steve Daines of Montana
Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina

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It’s a pity that the newly announced presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) did not defend marriage. At least we have a presidential candidate in Senator Ted Cruz who is willing to go to the mat for Republican values.

The ratio was a little better in the House, with 51 representatiaves, or about 20% of Republicans, signing on. Twenty percent is still pretty pathetic, though.

The Republican Party is the conservative party of record, and the Democrat Party is the liberal party of record. All things being equal, one would expect virtually all Republicans to work hard to promote conservative policy positions (i.e. protecting marriage from homosexual activists), while virtually all Democrats worked hard to promote liberal policy positions (i.e. promoting sexual anarchy and destroying the family).

So why the disparity here, where most Democrats did indeed level their guns on marriage and family, while only a little over 10% of Republicans went to bat for marriage and family?

The experiences of the past six years or more have produced two basic answers: (1) A great number of “Republicans” are little more than Democrats with an “R” after their name, otherwise known as liberal RINOs, and (2) most of the remaining Republicans who actually do believe in the documented conservative values

As a South Dakotan, I’m very pleased that South Dakota’s Rep. Kristi Noem was one of the 51 House Republicans who signed onto the defense of marriage; sadly, the “Republican” Speaker of the House was not a signatory.

For all his faults, in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did sign onto the defense of marriage.

But as a South Dakotan, I’m wondering: Where were Senator John Thune (R-SD-61%) and Senator Rounds? Were they out of town when this brief was put together? Couldn’t reach them by email or cell phone? Smoke signals weren’t working? Telegram impossible?

After all, weren’t we told all last year that Mike Rounds was really a conservative (despite his record of liberal betrayals), and that even if Rounds had some, um, “issues”, we could count on John Thune to nursemaid him to do the right thing?

Anyone still believe either of those claims (if anyone believed them to begin with)?

Is it time to get rid of any and all “Republicans” who refuse to defend Republican values, before the values that made America great are completely ground to powder beneath the heel of the Left? Can pro-family people and groups legitimately support politicians who won’t support family values?

HT: Right Side.

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AWOL In The Fight For Marriage

As Cliff Kincaid noted in a recent column,

Who were these six Republicans who were actually willing to stand up for the documented Republican value of marriage?

It’s a pity that the newly announced presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) did not defend marriage. At least we have a presidential candidate in Senator Ted Cruz who is willing to go to the mat for Republican values.

The ratio was a little better in the House, with 51 representatiaves, or about 20% of Republicans, signing on. Twenty percent is still pretty pathetic, though.

So why the disparity here, where most Democrats did indeed level their guns on marriage and family, while only a little over 10% of Republicans went to bat for marriage and family?

As a South Dakotan, I’m very pleased that South Dakota’s Rep. Kristi Noem was one of the 51 House Republicans who signed onto the defense of marriage; sadly, the “Republican” Speaker of the House was not a signatory.

For all his faults, in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did sign onto the defense of marriage.

But as a South Dakotan, I’m wondering: Where were Senator John Thune (R-SD-61%) and Senator Rounds? Were they out of town when this brief was put together? Couldn’t reach them by email or cell phone? Smoke signals weren’t working? Telegram impossible?

After all, weren’t we told all last year that Mike Rounds was really a conservative (despite his record of liberal betrayals), and that even if Rounds had some, um, “issues”, we could count on John Thune to nursemaid him to do the right thing?

Anyone still believe either of those claims (if anyone believed them to begin with)?

Is it time to get rid of any and all “Republicans” who refuse to defend Republican values, before the values that made America great are completely ground to powder beneath the heel of the Left? Can pro-family people and groups legitimately support politicians who won’t support family values?

HT: Right Side.