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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.
No.
Not setting you up to flame you.
Was just thinking of using your profession and an analogy therefrom to help you/folks see how one from my mental health profession as a clinical psychologist might make an assessment from a distance of OThuga with some reasonableness and validity to it.
i.e.
there are likely issues, situations, relationships, incidents
that you, from a distance,
because of your extensive experience
could easily make a fairly quick assessment—on
RELATIVELY
little information
[compared to a formal extensive data collection and assessment]
and STILL the odds would be ~98+% or better that you’d be mostly quite right.
Maybe you are experiencing mental difficulty in your "old age" and do not realize it. It seems that too many of those in leadership positions too often get weird and open to things that they would never go along with in their brighter, less degenerated past. They start to cave and it could just be that they mentally are deteriorating. Watch yourself and don't let yourself lose your moral principles.
While my reaction here is undoubtedly beyond the scope of this thread, I must say that the Constitution itself is based on the Natural Law, which is insensate to the oxymoronic concept of "same-sex marriage". I think It is naive in the extreme to imagine that forcing every citizen of a State at the barrel of a gun viz a viz the law to accept the self-contradictory notion of gay "marriage" is not a threat the the liberty of religious institutions, not to mention the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of every citizen. When laws are made that violate the Natural Law don't be surprised when your true liberties are destroyed.
If "gay marriage" it something a person with mental disorders like Obamination would favor, (at least secretly if not openly, purely for marxist dialectical, political reasons) shouldn't that be a warning sign to you that there might be something wrong with it?
Cordially,