Rand Pl: Gay marriage bate a ‘moral crisis’ - The Washgton Post

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• 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.

RON PL ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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.

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

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.

PL: GOP N’T ‘FLIP’ ON GAY MARRIAGE

Should gays be allowed to marry? 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, 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.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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

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

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

"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.

RAND PL: GAY MARRIAGE BATE A ‘MORAL CRISIS’

“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.