I'm for people being able to live and love as they please so long as nobody is getting hurt.
The government being involved in marriage in any form is a joke. What has happened is people, gay or straight, are essentially punished by not being married or having kids by our unequal, ass-backwards tax system. Government getting involved in marriage has, shockingly, caused more problems than it solves.
Obama is a joke on this issue. We all know he's never had a problem with gay marriage, he's just been pandering. Now he's overcompensating the pandering in the other direction. For all fawning and breathless coverage of the Presidents "evolution," why did he wait until AFTER North Carolina voted?
Gay rights activists are getting played here. Obama said he has no personal problems with gay marriage but said it belongs to the states. So essentially, nothing changes. If I were gay, I'd be pretty pissed about a President using an issue that means so much to me just to look "progressive" without actually doing anything.
And THEN . . . after all of this The Washington Post just happens to run a bizarre article about Mitt Romney in high school . . . almost 50 YEARS ago . . . beating some kid up and cutting his hair. BFD. I'm no Romney apologist but come ON, left. Seriously? A rich kid at a private school picked on someone? I went to a New England prep school, I knew rich kids who were probably just like Romney. It is what it is, but how on earth can any of us be held accountable to what we did in high school?! Suddenly lefties like Jonathan Chait and various Post editorial writers are talking about how we really are what we were in high school. Its just . . . (sorry Mom) . . . its just such bullshit. And its clear to me that this was all coordinated, too. I think karma caught up to Mitt for whatever he did as a teenager when he was almost killed in a car accident in France on his mission.
This is just going to be a terrible election. We have two choices, and its clear to me that other than the most partisan/professional folks out there, that nobody wants. So we are going to end up with a campaign based on bullshit (sorry again, Mom) like this. Obama promised America everything and more in 2008 and has let us down at nearly every turn, reflexively lurching left on every issue, and even when he gets it right (bin Laden) he manages to turn people off. Romney is a flip-flopping bazillionaire who has no idea what the regular folks go through on a day-to-day basis who "believes in America." Applause! We all believe in America.
So because of this, we are going to get a campaign based on what Mitt Romney did in prep school or Obama suddenly flip-flopping himself while not having the stones to follow through on his easy rhetoric. Two rivals, fiddling on nonsense while Rome burns.
This is our choice.
Agreed. Government should get out of the validation or recognition of marriage business altogether. It can recognize the primacy and economic situation of families (parent or parents with minor children) like currently with head of household filing status in tax code. Issues of surivorship, ownership and mutual responsibility can be handled contractually.
Posted by: Let's Be Free | May 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Both the primary post and the first comment seem to reflect the libertarian myth that government has no business reflecting culture. This extreme view is no more appropriate or principled than the extreme positivist view that government possesses the power to redefine marriage.
Government has the power neither to redefine marriage nor ignore it.
Posted by: James Young | May 12, 2012 at 09:30 PM
Government's business is to reflect culture?
Great to know that Mr. Young supports the $16 trillion debt run up with no end in sight. After all, that merely reflects the cultural descent of the American household into its current overleveraged, under water and insufficiently capitalized state. Young adults now, particularly, believe it's their birthright to borrow as much as they want to support whatever choices they make, as with college education. It's society's obligation to supply young people a job with compensation which supports that choice, come hell or high water. Borrow heartily, get the government to support you and spend on. That's what you get for culture Mr. Young!
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