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Contents:

• RON PL ON PROSTUTN, GAY MARRIAGE
• RON PL ON GAY MARRIAGE
• RON PL AND RAND PL BOTH GET WRONG ON GAY MARRIAGE, ESPECIALLY AS LIBERTARIANS
• PL: GOP N’T ‘FLIP’ ON GAY MARRIAGE
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’
• RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE
• RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’

RON PL ON PROSTUTN, GAY MARRIAGE

Sign up today for our ee To TopWorldRon Pl on Prostutn, Gay MarriageThursday night's bate among a small group of Republins failed to attract the heavy-htg policians who are vyg for the party's nomatn for print next year, but that didn't stop Rep. Ron Pl for rilg up the crowd on hero, prostutn, and gay marriage. Pl said he believ that stat should have the right to legalize gay marriage, marijuana, and prostutn if they choose to do so.

"Gay nservative group GOProud released a statement support of Pl and the other policians seekg the party's nomatn. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said. ” Sheldon Alberts of Canada’s Natnal Post, for example, wrote Monday that “Pl believ: Gays should be allowed to marry.

Ron Pl believ homosexuals should be allowed to “marry”… stat that legalize the practice. On the other hand, the homosexual Republin group GOProud released a statement May thankg Pl “for rightly makg the se that marriage and fay laws should be cid at the state level.

RON PL ON GAY MARRIAGE

Pl’s nflicted ngrsnal rerd on homosexual issu reflects his mment to feralism across-the-board. Fellow Libertarian New Mexi Governor Gary Johnson has said, “I support gay unns.

Rather than takg a direct stand agast gay marriage, the Texan exprsed tac approval of state-based marriag, but sisted he thks the tradnal stutn should stay the church:. John Stossel: Homosexualy. Should gays be allowed to marry?

RON PL AND RAND PL BOTH GET WRONG ON GAY MARRIAGE, ESPECIALLY AS LIBERTARIANS

They n’t make me, personally, accept what they do, but they gay upl n do whatever they want. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #electn'08 #gay #marriage stori and more. ”On both gay marriage and abortn, Pl differs om most of his Republin rivals and om much of the nservative Republin base not urgg a feral law eher to fe marriage or ban abortn.

It is particularly the area of social issu that Pl’s libertarian leangs are, while speakg to stunts at Straight A Amy, a small non-tradnal private school, a 22-year-old llege stunt who would not give her name quizzed Pl about his posn on gay marriage. Rand Pl recently ma headl for statg that Print Obama's stance on gay marriage "uldn't get any gayer. However, his statements on gay marriage put him at odds wh the libertarian view that ee people n do as they please so long as they do not vlate the rights of others.

PL: GOP N’T ‘FLIP’ ON GAY MARRIAGE

Pl, and all who wish to rry the banner of libertarianism, should advote for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and regnn of gay upl nied a marriage license are really beg nied accs to legal nventns that ern large and important parts of our liv, and people who oppose gay marriage are proposg that gays suffer unr this legal regime for what will likely be their entire liv. Gay upl who aren't married are not eligible for Social Secury survivor benefs.

Bee gay parents often have to apply for adoptn as sgle parents, ctody is not tomatilly granted to the other partner. The are only a few of the problems that gay upl face, to say nothg about the eedom to get married self. Yet by argug that the state should not regnize gay marriag bee privatizatn is optimal, Ron Pl ms a advotg a policy proposal, libertarians should take to acunt the chanc that their policy has of beg enacted the near term.

Privatizatn of gay marriage, while a good ia, is extremely unlikely to happen anytime soon.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

In the meantime, libertarians — pecially Ron and Rand Pl — need to advote for the rights of homosexuals. Both have predited their posns on gay marriage wh the view that homosexualy is a s, and marriage should subsequently be between heterosexual upl.

A fact is somethg that is empirilly te and n be supported by evince, while an opn is a belief that may or may not be backed up wh some type of evince, ually takg the form of a subjective statement that n be emotnally based or rult om a person's dividual terpretatn of a Ron Pl's printial mpaign issued a flyer that boasted about the ndidate's efforts to troduce legislatn that would remove challeng to the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act om the feral urt Ron Pl's Iowa state director is Mike Heath, a long-term Christian-right activist who formerly served as the board chairman of an SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group known as "Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy. "FACT: Ron Pl oppos the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act (ENDA), which would prohib discrimatn agast employe on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty by civilian, nonrelig on the above exampl and so many others, there is no way one n hontly characterize Ron Pl's past statements and rerd as anythg other than anti-gay. {mosads}He said that embracg gay marriage would e nservative southern Republins to tune out.

“If you tell people om Alabama, Mississippi or Geia, ‘You know what, guys, we’ve been wrong, and we’re gonna be the pro-gay-marriage party, ’ they’re eher gonna stay home or — I mean, many of the people joed the Republin Party bee of the social issu, ” Pl said. A rabow gay pri flag fli below the U. S., 60% of Uned Methodist members say homosexualy should be accepted, acrdg to a 2014 survey by the Pew Rearch Center.

RAND PL ON GAY MARRIAGE: ‘PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY’

Meredh is gay and has been married sce 2016. " He says the plan don't acknowledge the historil legacy of homophobia the church, though he poted to the plan's allotment of $39 ln over four years to "support muni historilly margalized by the s of racism" as a step toward such an acknowledgement. Equally surprisg, the moralistic, Christian right suffered a nearly plete feat the send ont of the Culture Wars, homosexualy.

Homosexualy has been normalized, wh gay marriage legal 15 stat, accepted wh the macho ary and regnized as a personal privacy right by the Supreme Court. Not unlike the relative accepance of “black” people as part of the Amerin mosaic, “gay” people are ceasgly, unashamedly accepted as one’s children, iends, neighbors and fellow employe. To appreciate how this happened, one needs to rell the battle over the fn of homosexualy that has raged for the last four centuri.

They me together the fledglg gay-rights movement. It revealed the growg ancy of a long-hidn, often closeted mory, “homosexuals, ” whether dyke or fag. One nsequence of the rt was that an creasg number of social stutns me unr public sctany as to their treatment of gay people.

RAND PL AND THE 'MORAL CRISIS' OF GAY MARRIAGE: A TIMELE

In the wake of Stonewall, gay activists led by Frank Kamery tensified their mpaign agast the qutnable medil assumptns – and polil nsequenc — that unrlay psychiatry’s analysis of homosexualy.

The gay activist mpaign took many forms, but — the spir of ‘60s activism – is most remembered by s direct terventns agast this (allegedly) ntral, scientific profsn, psychiatry. Inspired by the civil rights movement’s challenge to racism, the antiwar movement’s nontatn wh the ary-dtrial plex and the women’s movement battle agast patriarchy, gay activists set their sights not only on disptg the public prentatns of a number of psychiatry’s leadg spokmen but, most importantly, refg the APA’s DSM.

RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’

While the then-current DSM-II did not e the term “perversn, ” did refer to homosexualy and other sexual vianc as mental disorrs, “pathologil viatn[s] of normal sexual velopment. Gay activists unrstood that science — like sexualy – is a social tegory, one that chang over time. So, a formal, public bate between learned psychiatrists offered an unprecented opportuny to engage a cril issu – what was homosexuly?

He took the lead tryg to rolve the growg challenge to psychiatry’s analysis of homosexualy.