Gay marriage...the big question is where these candidates stand on Religious Freedom. Do they support Christians businessowners who refuse to celebrate gay marriage?
When AZ legislators passed a bill to protect business owners earlier this year there was a firestorm against it with Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoing it.
John McCain spoke out against it and Mitt Romney tweeted against it.
Scalia and Thomas not being joined in the dissent earlier this week set-off alarm bells like crazy for me. Tells me that Roberts and Alito are soft on the issue, and that we might be looking at a 6-3 or even 7-2 ruling in June.
At which point, we come to your question of Religious Freedom. I want to know what kind of protections these candidates support: what concrete legislative moves they plan to forcefully advocate, what executive actions they have planned, etc.
And just as important: I want rock-strong, airtight promises that *100%* of the judges they nominate to the bench are in the Scalia school of judicial thinking - not Souters, not Robertses. If they have to grind government to a halt to get this kind of judge past the confirmation process, then so be it.
I want to hear fight from the candidates on this issue. Many folks too casually gloss-over it, but it’s fundamental to the future of the country.