California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.
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.
SO YOU’D BE A LIBERTARIAN IF IT WEREN’T FOR ABORTN AND 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. 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.
“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.
CHARL MURRAY’S GAY-MARRIAGE SURPRISE
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.
ABORTN LG IMPERILS GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER EEDOMS, LIBERAL JTIC SAY
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.
GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIBERTARIAN’S DILEMMA
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 !
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
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.