[Cicero]

Our Country need to be run at the local and State level. It is too top heavy.

FWIW, Fred has been pretty heavy on states' rights recently. His reason for not supporting the federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman is that he thinks the proper place to settle it is at the state levels--with the exception that judicial tyranny on the federal level needs to be dealt with.

That has offended some right to lifers, but it also seems like a prudent approach to me. If you tried to amend the constitution--not an easy thing to do--every time the leftists decide to redefine the English language, in this case the word "marriage," you'd end up with hundreds of amendments in short order. The problem has to be tackled in other ways.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You aren't settling it at state level. You are allowing one liberal state to force the redefinition of marriage on the federal gov't. Fred's proposed amendment -- yes, he does propose an amendment -- is a huge problem. Fred may mean well (or not), but he doesn't think things through adequately. Case in point: CFR.

The federal gov't is going to be forced to recognize homosexual marriages unless a defense of marriage gets written into the federal constitution. There is no way around it. If each state can define marriage differently as Fred proposes in his federal amendment, then how do you give the federal gov't the authority to discriminate between them? You don't. He advocates a "both ways" approach and it is simply not possible.

[longtermmemmory]

The Federalist position taken by Thompson is pathetic and juvenile. A first year law student would be flunked out of constitutional law for that stance.

Marriage IS a federal issue. There is a solid unavoidable full faith and credit issue. The absurd thompson position does not give 50 seperate definitions of marriage, it gives 50 concurrent definitions that apply to ALL the states.

You also have an equal protection issue that does not even have to touch the issue of how a state defines marriage.

Thompson has opened himself wide for this collapse of his campaign.

He sould just could his blessings that the homsoexuals who pretend to be republicans are running pro-homo thankyou advertisements for romney.

We have Guiliani the pro-homosexual marriage candidate, the Romeny evolved position, and now the Thompson dunce cap position.

[GregB]

Yes my wife and I had a discussion on that very subject,she is not into politics as much as I am,she says they are all crooked. It is a State’s issue!