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| Description | It's serendipitous that the Supreme Court handed down itslandmark decision whacking the odious Defense of Marriage Act on what is (asthe Democratic National Committee has been pointing out today) the 100thday since the Republican National Committee issued its post-2012autopsy, which, among other things, called for greater inclusiveness on thepart of the GOP.Despite the fact that conservative luminary Ted Olson wasone of theattorneys arguing against California's Proposition 8 and other well-known conservatives (David Koch,Mens Nike Air Max 90, for example) support marriageequality,Nike Air Max 87,the Republican Party isn't about to embrace gay marriage. Butit's going toface a choice in the coming months and yearsregarding how it voices its opposition. Does this become a2004-style frontline issue for the party – willwe get 37DOMA re-enactment votes? – or does it become a second-tier issue,rituallymentioned but without enthusiasm? In other words, the SupremeCourt today openeda new front in the GOP's establishment-versus-basecivil war.[See a collection of political cartoons on gay marriage.]On one side are Republicans worried – a la the RNCpost-mortem –about the party's national viability and its image as anintolerantwhite men's club. They see that U.S. public opinion has passed a tipping point (55percent support same-sex marriage,according to the latest poll from CNN, afigure that is in line withother recent surveys) and understand that, giventhat support formarriage equality is stronger with younger voters, theGOP'sdeficit on the issue is only going to worsen. So, for example, you have conservatives like Carrie Sheffield writingin USA Today that not only is today's Supreme Court decision right on themerits, but also on the politics:Romney … desperately needed young voters voters who supportgaymarriage with an eye popping margin. About 81% of adults under age 30 [are] now supportinggay marriage.Too many young voters (sadly) are uninterested in complexdebates overgovernment balance sheets, trade deficits and sequesters. The political right has compelling,Affliction Shorts, bold arguments on fiscal issues, buttheirarguments against gay marriage ring hollow for most Millennials.And sincehomosexuality cuts across every socio-economic metric, it'seasy for youngvoters to be personally aggrieved by the GOP's platformdenying marriageequality to their cousin, friend or grandparent.Independents also favor gay marriage, with 62% backing theidea. In the words of the GOP's own 2012post-mortem,Nike Zoom Kobe VI,"devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasivewith, orwelcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue." Independent voters are key to Republicans' future relevance, and gaymarriageis now a reality that party leaders cannot afford to obstruct.And Republicans who want to avoid a big fight on this don't necessarily support gay marriage; they simply don't see the upside ofvocallypushing an issue that's increasingly unpopular with thecountry. So HouseRepublican leaders – who spent millions of thetaxpayers' dollars on thisfight – gavea ritualistic, if somewhat muted response to the ruling today.[See a collection of political cartoons on the Republican Party.]On the other side are the culture war dead-enders, themembers of theconservative media-entertainment complex and base voters whohavenever gotten over the idea that America is an inherently conservative country.Their response was anything but muted. Rush Limbaugh, forexample,Nike Air Force 1 Supreme, said that the ruling reflected the "disintegrationof the United States"; Glenn Beck said that this decision will leadto polygamy; Fox Radio's Todd Starnes tweeted that soon "they[will] outlaw the Bible as hate speech"; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabeeemailed supporters saying that hisfirst reaction to the ruling was that "Jesuswept," and that theSupreme Court had made itself bigger than god (never mindthat for itsfirst millennium theChristian church left marriage up to the state);the American PrinciplesProject's Maggie Gallagher issued a statementsaying that this ruling "is theRoe v. Wade of this generation, notthis generation's Brown v. the Board ofEducation," because it thwartedpopular will (never mind that Brown thwartedpopular will in the Southas well).Oh boy, do they want a fight. Ralph Reed, the Christianconservativeactivist who has been fighting this fight since DOMA was signed,toldPolitico that evangelicals will lookto the Congress for legislation to counter this decision.And what that wingof the party wants, that wing of the party gets.Witness the vote in the U.S.House earlier this month to ban abortionslater than 20 weeks and the Texasstate bill that would do the samething that state Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis filibusteredyesterday, not to mention ultrasound bills that conservatives in otherstates have passed or are trying to pass.[Take the U.S. News Poll: Was the Supreme Court Right on Gay Marriage?]The party is facing the prospect of this issue becoming anongoingreminder to young and swing voters that the GOP reputation for intolerance is well deserved.And that's just in the run-up to the 2016 presidentialprimaries. "Any Republican who runs forpresident will have to support [theparty's opposition to gay marriage]," theNational Organization forMarriage's Brian Brown told Politico. "He will losein the primary ifhe does not. Period." Note the assumption that any Republicanrunningfor president will be a "he" … but that's another issue.And prominent Iowa conservative organizer Bob Vander PlaatstoldPolitico that he and his followers intend to keep the issue prominent in the presidential selection process, vowing not to let candidates use a"let thestates decide" dodge. "I view marriage and abortion much likeI view slavery.If slavery is wrong in Massachusetts I believe it'salso wrong in Iowa. Ibelieve if abortion's wrong, abortion's wrong,"he said. "It's going to be anissue going into 2016."Please, please,Air Max Fitsole, please: Will whoever is moderatingRepublican debates running up to the Iowa caucuses please ask the candidates whether marriage equality is akin toslavery?Read Pat Garofalo: Supreme Court Conservative Hypocrisy on DOMA and Voting Rights ActRead Lara Brown: Ed Markey Defeats Gabriel Gomez in Massachusetts Senate RaceCheck outU.S. News Weekly, now available on iPad Recent Artcle: | ||||
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