A “Meet the Press” segment tackled the so-called “culture war” of the upcoming elections Sunday morning.
In light of the Supreme Court’s lack of action on gay marriage that effectively made it legal in about 30 states, Kathleen Parker, a conservative columnist from the Washington Post, and David Brody, the Christian Broadcasting Network’s senior political analyst, discussed with host Chuck Todd about whether the Republican Party has lost this “culture war” entirely.
Parker said this new focus would be good for Democrats because they “need” social issues in order to win. Republicans are trying not to bring up these issues, but when Democrats bring up these “cultural wedges,” she said, the GOP candidate is forced into taking a side.
She said that with Republicans, she is seeing “not so much a transformation as a reformation” on issues like gay marriage.
“I don’t think the Republicans are so much changing their core values as they are sort of trying to change the way they approach things,” Parker said.
Todd asked Brody whether he thought a pro-same-sex marriage candidate could be nominated by the GOP in 2016, Brody said he didn’t think that would be possible yet.
“No, I don’t think so at all, not in 2016 for sure,” said Brody. “And there’s going to be a lot of people fighting against it.”
Watch a clip from their segment below:
