I’d say that’s taking it a bit far. I guess then that Gore really is the father of the Internet too.
I think he’s right. Add homosexuals pretending marriage to the cost of social security, health care, military health, and retirement in general, and you have enormously upped the cost JUST BECAUSE of someone’s preferred method of orgasming.
The reason behind heterosexual government incentives is the potential procreativity and the known fact that moms and dads are the best source of socialization for children.
The state has an interest in encouraging the best means of providing for children, but it hasn’t a bit of interest in how someone gets their jollies.
How do you compare Gore to something that predates him, to the Governor of Massachusetts and the resulting creation of homosexual “marriage” because of his administration?
Agreed. Virgil is practicing, IMHO, some extreme hyperbole here.
To my knowledge, throughout this campaign Romney has stated again and again (including at the debates) that he supports a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as he spoke of it at Liberty U.
I do not see him giving any opposing message regarding that message.
Others in the GOP perhaps have, but on this issue I have yet to see it from Romney to date. I wish these folks could point me to an opposing statement by him as regards the Marriage Amendment. All I have heard is his support of that amendment, which is exaclty in line with what he stated at the speech.
He reaffirmed this last week in a statement to Denver station KDVR-TV,
“Well, when these issues were raised in my state of Massachusetts, I indicated my view, which is I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name.”
He went on to reaffirm his supports of a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman according to the National Organization for Marriage pledge he signed.
He also pledged to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, in contrast to the Obama administration, which does not defend DOMA as it thinks the 1996 law banning is unconstitutional.
We should all also note, as regards his record in Mass., when the Mass Supreme Court ruled that gays had the right to marry in 2003, initially Romney said that although he would follow the ruling as Governor, he would seek a constitutional amendment to overturn it.
Ultimately, that was unsuccessful, and he had to resort (and did) to a variety of tactics to try to block the ruling, but he was unsuccessful there as well in blocking it through the remainder of his term in office. This was because the overwhelming majority of legislators and Judges in Mass, for a long period of time (pre-dating Romney), have been Democrats and very left leaning.
The people in Mass, and the legislators in Mass may have fathered this thing, but not Romney. In fact the record shows he was against it and fought it as Governor.
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