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Thompson takes on....and pledges to take out gay marriage
It's interesting. This is actually a very moderate and reasonable proposal. I find it interesting (if it is true what Thompson says) that no state legislature has approved gay marriage. Thompson would pretty much make it so that no judge could legalize gay marriage and that if gay marriage were legalized, it would have to be done by the legislature, which even progressive states (i..e New York, California, Massachusets, etc) have not done.
This seems like a very shrewd and far less clumsy method to end the gay marriage debate than Bush ever tried.
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I'm trying to remember if Thompson has the type of fundamentalist background to give him credibility that he has a sincere personal interest in this issue.
He's not taking a religious position here; he's taking a conservative position on jurisprudence or, specifically, what a judge's role is. This also bleeds into the conservative position on state's rights, but his proposal is justified entirely in terms of political thinking. He isn't moralizing, at least no directly.
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Even if Thompson becomes president, wouldn't congress have to approve it still? The amount of votes Thompson needs he will never get within his first term in office and it is highly unlikely that whoever becomes the next president republican or democrat will get reelected.
If such a law isn't passed in the next four to eight or so years it nor any other federal anti-gay bill will ever get passed at all. The clock is ticking.
in our system, thank goodness, the courts rule, the Supreme Court (right-sided majority). we can't have incompetency running this country, such as that of the 17% approval rating of the Democrat controlled Congress.
So if I understand this correctly, he is wanting to keep the decision concentrated to the states decision rather than allowing the Supreme Court (Federal Govt.) from stepping in?
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