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FRC: Ken Mehlman and the GOP?s resistance to marriage amendments

By Alliance Alert

Family Research Council: "This unfortunate confirmation [regarding former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman] helps explain the scandalous failure of many in the Republican establishment to vigorously uphold the values and policy positions expressed in the party's platform in 2004 and 2008, particularly the need to protect the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman nationwide. While grassroots activists succeeded in passing marriage amendments in dozens of states across the country, they received little support and even outright resistance from Party officials at the national level, which contributed to the GOP's electoral failures in 2006 and 2008. Now we know one of the major reasons why."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).