The liberals will change the criteria to whatever best helps their position at the time.
Years ago, they were in favor of states rights for marriage, because they didn’t want a constitutional aamendment imposing only opposite sex marriage on the country.
But today, they are against states rights because they want federal judges to impose same sex marriage on the whole country.
Liberals have no consistent positions or values, as far as procedures, processes.
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That is the fact, and it is why we need conservatives at every level of government, from city government, to county, state, and federal, in party leadership, and conservative positions in the party platform.
That is because they have a relativist world view, they do not acknowledge objective truth, therefore they can be on both sides of an issue. e.g. John Kerry, et.al.