“Freedom For Everyone”
From reader acroso, Dick Cheney’s support of homosexual “marriage;”
“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone,” replied the former V.P. “As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don’t support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. … But I don’t have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that.”
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June 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
States’ Rights.
Be it Marriage, Abortion, Welfare, Education, Minimum wage, or whatever else isn’t given to the Federal Gov’t in the Constitution, the States should handle.
My thing on this topic is that there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that prevents two gays or lesbians from running around all over the country and proclaiming they are married. There is absolutely nothing that prevents that couple from setting up all the same legal arrangements and constructs, save one:
Tax Break.
What benefit does society gain by giving gay couples a tax break? ZILCH. Hetereo couples produce the kids that are the future taxpayers & soldiers a country needs. Homo ones do not, it is a matter of biology.
So leave it alone. call yourselves married, whatever. The State has no reason and nothing to gain by sanctifying them, only more divorces and other legal headaches.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Gerry Owen says…The State has nothing to gain?
Isn’t the State the enemy? Why should we care if it helps the State or not, which just means the politicians and the connected people who benefit from them.
Why not care more about individual rights so that gay couples and polygamists and individuals receive the same tax breaks.
June 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Gitmo the video game is almost ready to be released I guess.
Rendition Guantanamo trailer
The game’s developer hired Moazzam Begg — a “British Muslim who was detained at the American military base at Guantanamo Bay for three years” before being released uncharged — as an adviser to help make the game “more realistic.” Begg and seven other Britons detained by the U.S. recently sued the British government, “claiming U.K. authorities were complicit in their abductions, detention and interrogations.” Watch the game trailer:
June 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Where is there a right to a tax break?
June 1st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
It’s just so that the Federal Government doesn’t show favoritism to so called traditional marriage vs. other arrangements.
What if they did tax breaks based on race? Getting rid of the tax breaks makes sense so that there is no favoritism or the use of “moralism” trying to engineer society.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Getting rid of the tax breaks makes sense so that there is no favoritism or the use of “moralism” trying to engineer society.
Gays are trying to re-engineer society. Society has pretty well established what marriage is and isn’t. Anarchist assholes want to bring it all down.
BTW, it has been well known where Cheney stands on gay marriage. WTF have you been? Don’t answer that.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Nothing controversial there. Cheney is right on.