Conservative commentator makes emotional plea for Republican party to accept same sex marriage
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Version 0 of 1. A Conservative commentator has tearfully urged the Republican Party to accept gay marriage to prevent the party becoming a “relic”. Speaking in an interview with CNN shortly after the historic Supreme Court decision to legalise same-sex marriage was handed down on Friday, S.E. Cupp was moved to tears as she explained gay people just wanted “the human dignity the rest of us have”. She said: “Those people there are not pariahs. They are patriots. Wherever you stand on the politics of this issue, and I've long been in support of gay rights, it's hard not to see these people as just wanting the human dignity that the rest of us have—whether that's when it comes to death benefits or hospital visitation or child custody.” In a plea to the GOP, Cupp said the party would lose voters if it continued to argue over the Supreme Court’s decision or its right to dictate to individual states. She continued: “So the politics of this is one thing, but I would just challenge members of my party to look at the faces on your screen and ask yourselves if they deserve the same kind of dignity that the rest of us get to enjoy. “My party, which I deeply love...really has to reconcile with the fact that we are going to be become relics if we don't get to where these people are. They are patriots. They are not asking for a lot. And it's really time for the party politics to shift on this.” Her plea comes as the Republican party faces an increasing demographic challenge as its religious, socially conservative white base is dying out. Last year, a survey of 150,000 freshman at 227 colleges across the country by UCLA found that 56 per cent of people who identify as “socially conservative” supported same sex marriage- up 6.5 per cent since 2012, according to the Daily Dot. Despite this several contenders for the Republican presidential nomination have voiced their commitment to “traditional marriage”, including Jeb Bush who is considered to be a moderate. In a statement on his campaign website, he wrote: “Guided by my faith, I believe in traditional marriage. I believe the Supreme Court should have allowed the states to make this decision.” Another hopeful, Mike Huckabee said it was “one of the court's most disastrous opinions” and said to just ignore it would allow the Supreme Court to get away with “judicial tyranny”, according to the Washington Times. |