What’s your profession?
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I’m a professional health care worker, lots of letters after my name...not sure why that’s relevant, unless you’re just trying to set me up to flame me. I’m not a lawyer, if that’s what you’re suspecting...and I’m not gay. In fact, even pushing 60, I’m still a raging heterosexual. Sorry if that disappoints anyone.
Listen, all I’m saying is that on a constitutional level, it is very difficult for me to defend NOT allowing same-sex couples to be married. As long as the government doesn’t try to shove it down the throats (ewww) of religious institutions, I really don’t have a problem with it. I always thought it was a subject that should be settled by the people of each individual state, but going back to my previous Civil War analogy, I have a problem with the concept of slavery which each individual state MIGHT have voted to keep in force. Just because the people want it, it doesn’t mean it’s constitutional. Conservatives like me can’t rage against the lack of constitutionality for programs like welfare, social security, midnight basketball, etc., and then say “to hell with The Constitution” when it doesn’t feel right for us.
I’m as staunch of a conservative as anyone that I know, but I find myself becoming much more libertarian on social issues in my old age. And to continue the Civil War metaphors, to paraphrase President Lincoln, I agree with some of you people all of the time, and few of you people none of the time, but I never agree with all of you people all of the time.
I’m smiling as I write this because something tells me that the feeling is mutual right now.