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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Sure an atheist can be a Republican....so can someone who is gay....or someone who supports a woman's right to choose.
But, in all those cases, he/she would be very unlikely to ever rise to level of influence or power within the party....and with the party moving even further right, they are become even more marginalized if not outright ostracized.
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Dick Chaney, has a daughter who happens to be gay:
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Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama. But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government.
Speaking at the National Press Club for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation journalism awards, Cheney was asked about recent rulings and legislative action in Iowa and elsewhere that allowed for gay couples to legally wed.
"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."
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Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage (VIDEO)
Colon Powell on the right to choose:
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You all know that I believe in a woman’s right to choose and I strongly support affirmative action. And, I was invited here by my party to share my views with you because we are a big enough party -- and big enough people -- to disagree on individual issues and still work together for our common goal: restoring the American Dream.
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Source: Speech to the Republican National Convention Aug 12, 1996
Colin Powell on Abortion
And it is my view that an atheist will be accepted no differently in the Republican party than in the Democratic party.