Brownback says debate must continue on social issues

   Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback urged Christian evangelicals today to stay in the fight against abortion and in support of traditional marriage between a man and a woman.

   "We win when we engage," he told more than 800 people attending the Bott Radio Network’s annual Christmas party. "We lose when we sit back."

   The Bott network offers Christian programming on 39 radio station across the United States, including the Kansas City area.

  Brownback, a Republican considering a run for the presidency in 2008,
called abortion and gay marriage key issues that the nation needs to debate.

   "We are winning this fight on life," he said, referring to the abortion debate.

  Brownback said Americans need to face a fundamental question and not try to ignore it: What is life and what is property?

   He said the same debate was going more than 150 years ago over the slavery. Another debate in which that question plays a role is on the issue of embryonic stem cell research, he added.

   "What is the child in the womb?" he said. "I’ve asked that question dozens of times. I’ve asked it on television shows. I’ve ask it of my colleagues and they will never answer it. What is a human embryo, a person or a piece of property?"

   The senator said he always approaches such issues such by asking, "What is best for the child?"

   On the issue of gay marriage, he said the answer was a family with a mother and a father.

Posted by Jim Sullinger

Comments

[mod dem]

Please, please, please let him be the Republican nominee.

[Proud Dem]

Yes, please, please, please.

[kayceewolf]

Brownshirt doesn't have a chance at the Republican nomination, but I do hope his candidancy is the final nail in the coffin for the religiously addicted branch of the GOP. The more these cockroaches in human form are exposed to the light, the more the real Republicans will rush to disassociate themselves from them.

[craig]

"The more these cockroaches in human form are exposed to the light, the more the real Republicans will rush to disassociate themselves from them."
Some of us real Republicans already do disassociate ourselves from them.

I'm on vacation in another part of the country. You know what is refreshing? Until I looked at kansascity.com, I never saw ONE reference to Brownback in any other news source I've seen.

Hopefully he stays irrelevant to the rest of the US.

[Proud Dem]

To The KC Star: enough already with this Brownback nonsense! We get it - he might run and this newspaper is supporting his candidacy.

And we will sure remember this anytime The Star is accused of being a liberal paper. LOL

[ddub]

"On the issue of gay marriage, he said the answer was a family with a mother and a father."

A very intelligent answer.

The people at the speech were probably very receptive to this very intelligent solution to the 'problem' of gay marriage.

Idiots.