Bozzy
04-11-2004, 02:56
They (Democrats) will not admit the reality of why and how they are going wrong.... They do not understand why the gay marriage amendments lost. They really don't. They don't understand, for example, I've always said to people in our pro-life movement, I said, "Look it. If you want to win this, you don't go up to pro-choicers, wag your finger in their face, point your finger at them and start calling them names, calling them a sinner, insulting them and telling them they're wrong. They're just going to rebel against you." Talking to a liberal on the phone last night, a friend, just distraught as hell. "I don't know my country anymore. The things I believe in..."
I said, "Well, let me tell you what it's been like being conservative for 40 years. We didn't get where we are overnight. It took 40 years of loyalty and dedication to our beliefs, loyalty and dedication to our core principles, and we finally figured out that to win we had to persuade people's hearts and persuade people's minds, not impose things on them. For example, you like gay marriage. You think gay marriage ought to be the law of the land. Fine. Fight for it, but change the minds of the American people in the process. You don't go get judges in Massachusetts telling the legislature that it has to pass a law legalizing marriage, and you don't have a mayor in San Francisco who violates the law and starts marrying people who under our law at present are not entitled to be without causing a backlash. You are hurting yourselves with your own procedure, with your own behavior."
I said, "Well, let me tell you what it's been like being conservative for 40 years. We didn't get where we are overnight. It took 40 years of loyalty and dedication to our beliefs, loyalty and dedication to our core principles, and we finally figured out that to win we had to persuade people's hearts and persuade people's minds, not impose things on them. For example, you like gay marriage. You think gay marriage ought to be the law of the land. Fine. Fight for it, but change the minds of the American people in the process. You don't go get judges in Massachusetts telling the legislature that it has to pass a law legalizing marriage, and you don't have a mayor in San Francisco who violates the law and starts marrying people who under our law at present are not entitled to be without causing a backlash. You are hurting yourselves with your own procedure, with your own behavior."