{"id":627,"date":"2008-05-20T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T07:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/reminder-to-the-gop-on-gay-mar.html"},"modified":"2008-05-20T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T07:51:13","slug":"reminder-to-the-gop-on-gay-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/reminder-to-the-gop-on-gay-mar.html","title":{"rendered":"Reminder to the GOP on Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gaymarriage4.jpg\"While John McCain and the GOP continue to keep quiet about last week’s California Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage, the party’s Religious Right base continues to be just bit more exercised over the decision. Here’s popular radio host Dennis Prager<\/a>, a Jewish ally of the Christian Right:<\/p>\n

Nothing imaginable — leftward or rightward — would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history: Not another Prohibition, not government taking over all health care, not changing all public education to private schools, not America leaving the United Nations, not rescinding the income tax and replacing it with a consumption tax. Nothing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just a reminder to McCain and the GOP that stopping gay marriage is not exactly a low-rung priority for its base.<\/p>\n


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