Rand Paul: Government Should Get Out of the Marriage Business Altogether

Time ^ | June 28, 2015 | Rand Paul

[z taxman]

...The Constitution is silent on the question of marriage because marriage has always been a local issue. Our founding fathers went to the local courthouse to be married, not to Washington, D.C.

I’ve often said I don’t want my guns or my marriage registered in Washington.

Those who disagree with the recent Supreme Court ruling argue that the court should not overturn the will of legislative majorities. Those who favor the Supreme Court ruling argue that the 14th Amendment protects rights from legislative majorities.

Do consenting adults have a right to contract with other consenting adults? Supporters of the Supreme Court’s decision argue yes but they argue no when it comes to economic liberties, like contracts regarding wages.

It seems some rights are more equal than others.

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I acknowledge the right to contract in all economic and personal spheres, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a danger that a government that involves itself in every nook and cranny of our lives won’t now enforce definitions that conflict with sincerely felt religious convictions of others.

Some have argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling will now involve the police power ofthe state in churches, church schools, church hospitals.

This may well become the nextstep, and I for one will stand ready toresist any intrusion of government into the religious sphere.

Justice Clarence Thomas is correct in his dissent when hesays: “In the American legal tradition, liberty has long been understood as individual freedom from governmental action, not as a right to a particular governmental entitlement.”

The government shouldn't prevent people from making contracts but that does not mean that the government must confer a special imprimatur upon a new definition ofmarriage.

Perhaps the time has come to examine whether or not governmental recognition of marriage is a good idea, for eitherparty.

[z taxman]

Bravo Rand, get the government out of marriage. Its a religious institution and ougfht to be kept out of the hands of the liberal secular government.

[Vendome]

Bingo!

Been saying this for a couple years.

The alternative is for the rest of us to not participate in their sanctioned unions.

Contract unions end that BS and forego the IRS bene’s...

[2ndDivisionVet]

The base word of libertarian is liberal.

[ansel12]

The man is an idiot, and he was pushing for the GOP to accept gay marriage before this, just as he wants the GOP to lighten up on all social issues and abortion.

[z taxman]

As in classic liberalism, aka paleoconservatism.

[ansel12]

What about the military, how do the feds decide what a legal marriage is for them, and for immigration?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is that you Pat?

[RginTN]

what has Paul done to achieve this belief????

[matt1234]

Is this Rand Paul or Ru Paul?

[z taxman]

Better Buchanon than Bush I, Bush II, McCain and Romney.

[onedoug]

There is going to have to be some remedy for contractual obligations, especially to the issue therefrom, and it’s not going to come from Washington, nor the church.

Like it or not, it’s going to have to come from state law, and from Article IV Section 1 of the Constitution...unless we’re done with all that.

Rand Paul is frankly, an idiot.

[SaveFerris]

yep

[ansel12]

THOMAS JEFFERSON
Bond for Marriage License [23 December 1771] Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jefferson and Francis Eppes are held and firmly bound to our sovereign lord the king his heirs and successors in the sum of fifty pounds current money of Virginia, to the paiment of which, well and truly to be made we bind ourselves jointly and severally, our joint and several heirs executors and administrators in witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals this twenty third day of December in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy one.
The condition of the above obligation is such that if there be no lawful cause to obstruct a marriage intended to be had and solemnized between the abovebound Thomas Jefferson and Martha Skelton of the county of Charles city, Widow,1 for which a license is desired, then this obligation is to be null and void; otherwise to remain in full force.
th: jefferson
francis eppes

GEORGE WASHINGTON

[sheikdetailfeather]

From twitter: Daniel Horowitz ‏@RMConservative 4h4 hours ago What a steaming pile of incoherent drivel that fails to speak to what actually occurred last week http://time.com/3939374/rand-paul-government-should-get-out-of-the-marriage-business/ …

[2ndDivisionVet]

So you liked Dick Nixon? Or didn’t you know that Pat worked for him for many years? At one point, Pat was his only political aide.

[Lurker]

He’s right.

[Jim Robinson]

FURP!

[z taxman]

Horowitz huh? Sounds like a neocon.

[entropy12]

What government must get out of...

—Marriage business
—healthcare business
—rationing of guns business
—foreign nation building business
—trying to convert Muslim countries into democracies
—engineering the tax code to promote agenda of the elites in Washington DC
—making bad deals with Muslamo-Fascist regimes like Iran

What government needs to do more of:

—protect national sovereignty by protecting and closing borders
—protect credibility of elections by eliminating voter fraud
—enforce immigration laws already on the books
—strengthen our military, this should be priority one because it is the best way to discourage bad actors from attacking Americans and American interests.

[re_nortex]

FURP!

As always well said, Jim and absolutely right. Rand Paul is a big fan of Obama and is glad that the usurper is not in prison. He stated that publicly in a Senate hearing.