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If gay marriage is a moot point the get the Fed out of it altogether. It is not the Feds business to be imposing morality in the first place. Relegate it back down to the states.
So you oppose the striking down of bans on interracial marriage by the United States Supreme Court (ie, the federal government)?
Gay marriage is relatively meaningless on a state level, these people want DOMA struck down (which it should be, its unconstitutional) and federal recognition for Tax/wills/insurance purposes.
I'm very happy to see this. It's a sign that (maybe) he won't use gay-bashing as a way to win Republican voters, unlike Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann.
If you want a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, it sounds like Rick Perry is not your guy.
UIM, and anyone else who is buying into Perry's Ron Paul-style talking points you're being bamboozled by him. He's walking and talking like Ron Paul so the Perry cheerleaders and the fickle voter believe him and take traction away from Ron Paul and try to appeal to potential Romney voters. This is the position that Paul has always advocated for and Perry is just flipflopping to make himself look like a moderate to overstep Romney and steal Paul's thunder
Perry has been for state rights over Fed rights for years now.
Perry has been for state rights over Fed rights for years now.
Surely you know that trying to get the NAFTA superhighway built, forced HPV vaccines thanks to Big Pharma lobbying, selling toll roads to international firms kinda fly in the face of his so-called "independent" streak? The guy is just SAYING he's for the 10th Amendment (while quietly gutting the first anti-TSA groping bill and having his party leadership water down the 2nd bill to nothing) to fool people into believing he's authentic. All he's done as governor was grooming his way to the presidency. His record doesn't match his words
He won't do that. We had a case in Texas where a married gay couple moved here from CA and then decided to get divorced and tried to do it in Texas but since Texas doesn't recognize gay marriage they would not grant the divorce.
I think that there have actually been two like that here in tex recently. I don't trust Perry. It'd be just like him to say this to curry favor with independents/moderates, but then do an about face if he were to win the office. He's been too maliciously anti-gay here in Texas to make me believe that he is sincere in this.
I'm very happy to see this. It's a sign that (maybe) he won't use gay-bashing as a way to win Republican voters, unlike Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann.
If you want a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, it sounds like Rick Perry is not your guy.
Trust me on this... He [Rick Perry] has NOT done anything positive for gay people in Texas. The key word to this post was... IN NEW YORK. You see, Texans view California and New York as whole different planets.
I think that there have actually been two like that here in tex recently. I don't trust Perry. It'd be just like him to say this to curry favor with independents/moderates, but then do an about face if he were to win the office. He's been too maliciously anti-gay here in Texas to make me believe that he is sincere in this.
I also suspect Perry of pandering. He's as phony as a $3 bill and there are people that believe him.
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