Posted on 06/13/2010 2:38:39 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Nearly a century after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that "marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man.' " That 1967 case, Loving v. Virginia, ended bans on interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had such laws.
Now, 43 years after Loving, the courts are once again grappling with denial of equal marriage rights this time to gay couples. We believe that a society respectful of individual liberty must end this unequal treatment under the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at cato.org ...
Possibly because CATO is a bureaucracy, and all such have the same tendencies. Whether it's government or private, big groups of people who think but not do, get strange ideas, and then tend to be liberal ideas. Maybe because doers see how hard it is to get things working in the first place, that they are not so ready to break things that are working.
Libertarianism appears to suffer from the same concept of pure thought/revealed wisdom that inflicts Marxists.
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