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To: rintense
Answer the question. They are your words, not mine.

Well, first of all, I don't have to answer the question just because you - Mr. Dishonesty - think I should. Your question was a completely dishonest, misrepresentative attempt to completely spin what I had said to something completely opposite to what I actually said. In other words, you are either lying, or else too stupid to understand what you were doing because you didn't get what I said to begin with.

What I said was, "As for gay marriage - well, his position is the 10th amendment position. If you have a problem with that, then you ultimately have a problem with the Constitution, not with Scott Brown."

How you construed that I was saying that being against gay marriage means you are against the Constitution, I have no idea.

Let me spell it out for you.

Scott Brown quite openly says he believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

He also says that states should be the ones to decide.

States making this kind of decision is directly in line with the Constitutional principles of federalism, as outlines, for instance, in the 10th amendment.

Ergo, if we are going to ban gay marriage, it has to be done at the state level, since it's the states' call either way.

Nowhere in any of this does the concept appear that "being against gay marriage means you don't support the constitution." That was completely a bogus smokescreen that you invented, because it was apparently easier for you to do so than to actually deal with the issue honestly. Scott Brown has said he supports traditional marriage. He has nowhere said he support gay marriage. What he DOES support is addressing the issue by means of federalism - which is the legitimately constitutional way of doing it.

So again, why can't you address this issue honestly?

134 posted on 01/20/2010 11:22:22 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

“What I said was, “As for gay marriage - well, his position is the 10th amendment position. If you have a problem with that, then you ultimately have a problem with the Constitution, not with Scott Brown.”

“How you construed that I was saying that being against gay marriage means you are against the Constitution, I have no idea.”

Because that is its clear meaning.


192 posted on 01/20/2010 12:32:11 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

If you had state that to begin with, Titus, you would have had no reply from me. Good day.


220 posted on 01/20/2010 1:05:34 PM PST by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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