Thank you for your contribution to Fred’s campaign but something in your post struck me as one of the fundamental problems within the ‘right-wing’ political movement in this country.
Putting aside what one may think of abortion or gay marriage, the fact is Thompson believes strongly in federalism. I’d also guess that he (like I) does not feel it’s a wise move to spend political capital on those issues when we need to move the American population and the public policies back towards the right. Banning gay marriage won’t do ___.
In fact, I’d say the anti-male family courts are far more destructive to our society than gays getting married, either in some ceremony or legally-speaking.
When I think of the problems we face in this country, our long, slow slide into tyranny, the two issues that occur to me as being the LEAST instrumental in that (or near the bottom) are the two you mentioned.
Social security, gun rights, property rights, taxes, illegal immigration, intelligence and national security, military preparedness, healthcare market liberalization and smashing the nanny state are all far more critical in the short and long term.
Win those and you win people to the more nebulous moral-religious concepts.
I think we can do many things at one time.