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libertarian views on abortion and gay marriage

California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.

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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?

CHARL MURRAY’S GAY-MARRIAGE SURPRISE

“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.

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

“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?

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE LIBERTARIAN’S DILEMMA

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.

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

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. 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.

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