Where the federal judges with overturn it or the federal government will withhold funds to the states.
This is why presidents can’t just say it’s a state matter.
They used to compartmentalize on issues like abortion by separating personal belief from their public performance; now it seems like politicians are doing a lot of weaseling with this federalist refuge. Hard to keep track of what they believe anymore, since it has so little to do with anything outside their skulls. And we've only their word for what's in there.
"Mitt Romney's Christmas Present to the 'Gay' Lobby Should End Pro-Family Leaders' Support for his Candidacy"
Romney is obviously no social conservative.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
In this poll Hunter is up 3% and even with Paul and Thompson.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3481ef60-8195-46a9-af04-b87b907bcfdd
There’s flip Romney for you
It just amazes me how we ASSUME that homosexuality is an inherent trait and thus justifies civil rights status. All of the data says it is a learned/chosen behavior, not inherent. Despite years of attempting to prove genetic predisposition, it has not been done.
We cannot/should not assign civil rights to behaviors.
Has anybody seen the editorial in the Conservative Manchester Union Leader raking Romney over the coals today?
In 1994, he was pro-homosexuality in regard to this...then Myth "the Switch" Romney was agin' it:
Mitt-fan from National Review: Lopez: And what about the 1994 letter to the Log Cabin Republicans where you indicated you would support the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and seemed open to changing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military? Are those your positions today?
Gov. Romney: No. I don’t see the need for new or special legislation. My experience over the past several years as governor has convinced me that ENDA would be an overly broad law that would open a litigation floodgate and unfairly penalize employers at the hands of activist judges. Source: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmY1MTQyMTk0Yjk2ZDNmZmVmNmNkNjY4ODExMGM5NWE=
(I wonder if Romney gave out "Gumby"s as Christmas presents to his grandkids?)
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Sounds exactly like a good federalist to me, and something Fred Thompson says all the time. Let each state decide what to do, but don’t pass a federal law. Since we are electing a President, that’s a good position to be in.
But I’m guessing that this article is written by a Huckabee supporter, an evangelical who would like Huckabee’s tendency to use the government to take care of us for our own good.
Meanwhile, Romney supports DOMA and a constitutional marriage amendment, both of which attempt to protect a state from the actions of another state regarding gay marriage.
Of course, nobody thinks that a person should be denied employment because of their private sex life.
Homosexuality as a civil right? O.M.G.
THERE IS NO WAY IN THE WORLD THAT A GUY CAN BE ELECTED GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSSETS (the same state that elects John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to the senate) AND BE CONSERVATIVE.
NO WAY!
Why can’t a Republican say -
“I’m against gay-marriage. I’m against gay-adoption. I’m against gays-in-the-military.
It is not the state’s business to ask you what you do behind your bedroom doors. But we will make NO special laws and give NO special protections to those who want to make their choice in private sexual activities into their public identities.”
But I would like to see a link to his original comments on Russert’s show if someone has them.
There’s alot of stuff flying around about many of the candidates right now..
I’ll never vote for this guy. Either in the primaries or the generals. He’s a closet liberal and a disaster for the Republican party.
His handlers ought to be careful when they let him speak for himself without a clear set of notes confirming his position. He can’t keep his own flip flops straight. He makes John Kerry look good in that department.
Sounds like Fred Thompson.
Substantive.
Good goin’ Pete — from up in Wisconsin.