On the same email thread that NH State Senator Ray White’s missive came from came this question:
Not sure why we’re wasting time and political capital on this issue, this year (an election year for God’s sake)…with an almost 100% certainty of a Lynch veto and failure to override…
At first blush, the intent behind the question was correct – the economic issues SHOULD be front forward. I even started off with that thought….and then it hit me: why should we cede all the social issues to the Democrat / Progressives / Liberals? To the Secular Humanists? Why should their morality become public law – why should their’s trump mine (which is far close if not, indeed, traditional American in outlook? The HHS insurance mandate now roiling America’s religious community is a great (and horrific) example of this – Progressives believing that Government has the legal right to so narrowly define what a church is that it can, out of whole cloth, strip their ministries from being “religious” ones to being secular by fiat decision. And then force those newly re-classified secular (formerly religious) organizations to obey Governmental restrictions instead of being accountable to religious ones.
My answer (lightly edited, names redacted):
My take: I, too, would rather see more changes on the economic issues simply if not to allow Democrats to demagogue the “why aren’t you concentrating on jobs like you promised?” (even as Enterasys just moved 540 jobs into NH).
However, there is also the “walk and chew gum” at the same time argument. Thus, I look at this from this perspective – the Republicans did not start the culture wars – the social engineering in recent years has been all Democrat based. We need Republicans to point this out over and over and over and over again (and with better messaging than what has been done to date, I might add).
WHY would we, why SHOULD we, cede the culture war to the Progressives? WHY should we just give up the social engineering side of the war?
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