Frem the article: But here’s the issue. Is this too much federalism to the point of alienating social conservatives? Fred Thompson came into this presidential race as the one candidate social conservatives may be able to embrace. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. First there were problems with his position on the federal marriage amendment. He went with the federalism argument there. Then he ran into problems about his Church attendance (though that seemed too much of a big deal to me) and now he doesn’t support this human life amendment that is part of the GOP platform. Show me in the Constitution where the Federal Government has any business messing around in these three fields, and then I might be willing to discuss them with the so-called "social conservatuves" who are bitching abour Fred's stand. Only AFTER they have read that document -- which many of them obviously have not.
“Show me in the Constitution where the Federal Government has any business messing around in these three fields,”
The problem is that the federal government already DID mess around in one of these are areas when Roe vs Wade was decided. Any action to void Roe vs Wade IS an act of getting the feds out of it.