GOP Chair Priebus Reassures Republicans They Don’t Need To Support ‘Tolerance’

GOP Chairman Reince Priebus reassured his base that they don’t need to support “tolerance,” adding that he doesn’t even really care for the word. Priebus also reaffirmed his party’s opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBT civil rights, a woman’s right to choose, and any deviation from the party platform within his increasingly-shrinking Republican Party. 

In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, Priebus responded quickly to a question about “tolerance” and same-sex marriage, saying:

“First of all, I don’t know if I’ve used the word tolerance. I don’t really care for that word myself.”

But Priebus, who was really speaking directly to Evangelical Christians through Brody, did say that “Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and that’s not code language. That’s the New Testament so I don’t think there should be any problem with that thinking in our party.”

Priebus also told Brody, “I happen to believe that our principles are sound. I do believe, and I still will tell you that our party believes that marriage is between one man and one woman. Our party believes that life begins at conception.”

“If you’re looking at the evidence,” Chairman Priebus, who is 41 and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church added, “what you will see is a party that embraces life, a party that embraces marriage and a chairman that understands that there’s only one sovereign God and that we ultimately aren’t dependent on what happens in politics.”

Of course, in one fell swoop, Priebus tossed away America’s agnostics, atheists, Muslims, Jews, and anyone who supports a woman’s right to choose, and, of course, anyone who supports LGBT civil rights, including same-sex marriage.

Ironically, in May, Gallup reported “Americans’ tolerance of a number of moral issues up since 2001.”

Currently, 55 percent of Americans support expanding marriage to include same-sex couples, 59 percent believe same-sex relations are “morally acceptable,” about 18 percent “have no explicit religious identification,” 60 percent believe single parenthood is OK, 91 percent believe birth control is acceptable, and 52 percent believe in a woman’s right to choose.

Earlier this year, Gallup also noted that Americans see the GOP’s inability to compromise as its greatest weakness. 

In a press release, Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Michael Czin responded with this query:

“The question for Chairman Priebus and the GOP is simple, if they don’t support tolerance, what exactly do they stand for?”

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