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Originally Posted by coralway
There is nothing wrong in changing your mind on an issue - any issue. It shows a certain level of maturity and even an evolving position based on life exeriences. Nothing wrong with that. What IS wrong is when a pol takes a stand on an issue before a certain group of folks, and then takes a different stand on the same issue with a different group of folks. That is a flopper.
Those who are keeping quiet on this are the ones who booed that US Marine at one of the Republican debate because of his orientation.
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You think it's his orientation that people were booing....while maybe they didn't post here because they had nothing to ADD to the first post.....and so you stereotype everyone conservative here as being homophobic, when that is not the case.
When that gay soldier started to speak on the big screen during the debate, nobody in the audience made so much as a peep when he said, "and I am a gay soldier". Not one sound in the pause between sentences. Then he continued on, asking Santorum if during his presidency, he would "circumvent the progress that has been made for gays in the military". Only then did one or two people start to boo. It was the idea of "circumventing" the policy now in place that drew the boos, not necessarily the fact that he said he was a gay soldier.
It is a huge stretch of the imagination to assume that every GOPer there and here can't stand this soldier's "orientation". A future president willing to "circumvent" the current policy is what sends up red flags to thinking people on both sides.