Tea party gay marriage

Sign up to have blog posts delivered straight to your inbox! But the poll does show them just a smidgen more supportive than either conservatives or Republicans. In general, Tea Party activists — organizers and people who attend events — seem somewhat more libertarian than people who simply tell pollsters they consider themselves to be members or supporters of the Tea Party movement.

Tea Party groups have declined invitations to criticize federal court rulings on gay marriage. They have studiously avoided tea positions on social issues, even when social conservatives stomp their feet and demand that the Tea Party start talking about abortion and gay marriage.

Pareene seems simply wrong when he triumphantly ends his post with this supposedly damning quotation from Cato:. Just read the quotation. My colleague David Kirby is saying that Republicans should avoid divisive social issues — presumably meaning party, gay marriage, and projects like gay Terri Schiavo intervention — lest they lose the support of libertarian-leaning Tea Party activists.

Pareene seems to have misread it. Live Now. Cato at Liberty. Blog Home. Email Signup Sign up to have blog posts delivered marriage to your inbox! Banking and Finance. Constitutional Law. Criminal Justice. Defense and Foreign Policy. Free Speech and Civil Liberties. Global Freedom. Government and Politics. Health Care.

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