California voters to be asked to affirm gay marriage on 2024 ballot - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• A LIBERTARIAN'S VIEW OF GAY MARRIAGE
• SO YOU’D BE A LIBERTARIAN IF IT WEREN’T FOR ABORTN AND GAY MARRIAGE?
• CHARL MURRAY’S GAY-MARRIAGE SURPRISE
• ABORTN LG IMPERILS GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER EEDOMS, LIBERAL JTIC SAY
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIBERTARIAN’S DILEMMA
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

A LIBERTARIAN'S VIEW OF GAY MARRIAGE

No prcipled libertarian objects to gay marriage for specifilly moral reasons, havg to do wh “marriage” beg rerved for the permanent bond between a man and a woman, for stance.

Six stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. As a libertarian, I thk all nsentg adults who want to m to a life partner ought to be treated the same air this issue on my Fox Bs show, I ved Brian Brown of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage () and David Harsanyi, libertarian lumnist at The says gay marriage threatens marriage between a man and a woman.

SO YOU’D BE A LIBERTARIAN IF IT WEREN’T FOR ABORTN AND GAY MARRIAGE?

I don’t see a problem wh the first: If they refe marriage to clu gays, that don’t dimish my marriage. And if kids are tght that gay marriage is OK, so what?

“They’re beg told that their parents' views are sentially bigotry, ” said ’s another reason we should have school his third pot, if a state tells Catholic Chari they may not honor their beliefs and lim adoptns to straight upl, that’s a problem of Big Government, not gay marriage. “It is a mistake to allow ernment to fe what marriage should be, gay or not. ”Sorry, but I still don’t see what divorce and unwed motherhood have to do wh gay marriage.

CHARL MURRAY’S GAY-MARRIAGE SURPRISE

“All of that … started long before anyone brought up gay marriage, ” Harsanyi said. Often I hear, through ments on social media or personal nversatns, that the most mon objectns to libertarianism om nservativ center around the two big nservative social issu: abortn and homosexualy.

Libertarians are seen as pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. For the sake of argument, let nce that most libertarians probably are pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. But is a necsary nsequence of libertarian theory that all libertarians mt be pro-choice and pro-gay marriage?

What about gay marriage and other LGBT issu? If you hold to tradnal, biblilly-rmed unrstandgs of homosexualy, genr, manhood, womanhood, sex, and marriage, you have a home wh libertarianism. It is only bee any uple – gay, lbian, straight, bisexual, transgenred, or uncid – or any group of people should have the right to form any kd of legal arrangement they choose.

ABORTN LG IMPERILS GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER EEDOMS, LIBERAL JTIC SAY

If there is anythg remblg a libertarian posn on gay marriage, is simply get the ernment out of marriage.

Regardls, there is no libertarian posn on gay marriage. So to those nservative Christians who are attracted to libertarianism but have rervatns over abortn and gay marriage, I say, “Jump on ! Still have objectns or qutns regardg libertarianism and abortn and gay marriage?

Murray dched his prepared remarks on “Ameri Comg Apart” favor of an impromptu admonn to fellow nservativ to accept the legalizatn of both gay marriage and, who is currently a fellow at the Amerin Enterprise Instute, is revered by many nservativ. Their disenchantment wh the Republin Party was not specifilly bee of Mt Romney, he add, but bee, “They nsir the Party to be n by anti-abortn, anti-gay, relig nuts.

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIBERTARIAN’S DILEMMA

”“Wh gay marriage, ” he went on, “I thk the tra has left the statn. ”Certaly the lootive power of the issue seemed hard to miss on a day when the top polil news was Oh Republin Senator Rob Portman’s announcement that he, too, supports gay marriage.

) While Portman’s posn shifted bee of his fay suatn—he explaed publicly for the first time that his son had e out as gay—Murray said his own views had been fluenced heavily by iends. “I was ad-set agast gay marriage when was first broached, ” Murray said; as a fan of Edmund Burke, he regard marriage as an ancient and dispensable cultural stutn that “we shouldn’t ms wh.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

” He ed to agree wh his iend Irvg Kristol, the late father of neo-nservatism, that gay people wouldn’t like marriage. ”But sce then, Murray said, “we have acquired a number of gay and lbian iends, ” and to what he jokgly lled his “dismay” as a “nfint” social scientist, he learned he’d been wrong. He’d been pecially fluenced by the pro-gay-marriage arguments ma by Jonathan Rsch, an openly gay wrer for the Natnal Journal and the Atlantic.