[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Santorum is not a theocrat and Cruz is going to fight for normal marriage. It is just that his fight is for states right to decide. The problem with that is the full faith and credit clause. Non legal states still must accommodate those who move to their state. Eventually it weakens all. Polygamy was banned nationally when the demand was made of Utah to eliminate it as a condition of joining the Union. The first Republican Platform sought to “ban the twin relics of slavery and polygamy.” So I am with Santorum and Huckabee on marriage. I won’t smear Cruz by saying he won’t fight for it. He will. He has just bought that a core social structure such as marriage is a state issue when only the peripheral legal issues should be state decided. Marriage is only important because it is the foundational structure of society into the future. Homosexuality is not equal to that: Never has been, never will be. Mom, Dad and baby, staying together as a family saves the government lots of money and effort. It promotes freedom because it keeps Mom and Dad as the primary authority for the children, passing on religious and moral values. Mandating no discrimination of all sexual perversions, calling them equal to “marriage” places the government at the head.

Cruz’s plan is better than nothing. It at last leaves we the people with some say.

I get tired of one camp distorting the positions of another camp in an effort to promote self. It shows bad character.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Santorum is most certainly a theocrat. He is more than comfortable with using the power of the federal government to force his religious views on the populace.

Beyond that, he is a smarmy, backstabbing weasel (just ask Mr. Newt).

[HiTech RedNeck]

There is a time when we must say we can’t pick up a turd by its clean end.

An answer, enspirited by the Lord, might look like constitutional amendment to (1) put in a balance of some kind to judicial supremacy, which engages the will of the people; (details we can debate, the need we no longer can) and (2) require any kind of household arrangement that isn’t based in natural marriage to not be called marriage — to reserve the term marriage.

Mincing around with states rights to call nonsense sense (I didn’t say to call the immoral permissible, I said to call nonsense sense) is playing with that turd. Everyone’s hands will get dirty even if dirt is defined away.