Eric Cantor, Mitt Romney: "Federal Implications" If States Decide Same-Sex Marriage (Video)

ConservativeXpress ^ | 5/3/09

[DrGop0821]

Rep. Eric Cantor and Gov. Mitt Romney appeared on CNN "State of The Union".

Both express concern over the "federalist" view of allowing individual state's to decide their own laws regarding same-sex marriage.

Obviously, most conservatives are against same-sex marriage. Yet the two make the case that decisions on marriage in any given state do, in fact, have "federal implications".

What happens with the tax code (joint filing), spousal benefits from employer health-care, status as next-of-kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; and any other in a long list of marital benefits if different states have different laws?

[GovernmentShrinker]

You’ll get no argument from me on that point.

[trisham]

Ignoring for a moment that this is another of the endless Pimp Mitt Romney threads, it ought be noted that spoiler Mitt Romney personally, as in himself, as in alone, personally overruled, and gutted, the Massachusetts Constitution (the oldest in the USA). Right, Mitt?

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Bears repeating.

[Antoninus]

I don't trust Flip Romney one bit on this issue. He's on every side of it.

The fact is butt-sex marriage happened on his watch in Massachusetts and he let it happen. Personally, I would have resigned first.