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Funny thing is....Obama is picking and choosing when he supports states rights.
That would make him....a hypocrite?
Just like George W. Bush when he proposed a federal marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and when his administration chose to go after Oregon for their assisted suicide law.
I don't know if we've ever had a President who truly believes in states' rights without exceptions.
I will do you one better,the fedgov. or ANY gov. has NO business at all being involved in marriage.
It should be up to the individual and the church of their choice....
I agree. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that any state is going to get out of the marriage business. If any state did, I believe that many social conservatives would go bonkers.
So am I. George Bush certainly wasn't, and I doubt McCain would have been either.
This is also great news for anyone who believes in the freedom to do what we want with our bodies.
I agree. I am completely for personal liberties and I think that most conservatives support that positition. State's rights tend to be a view attributed to conservatives, but I think it should be a view of most Americans. Bush actually was a proponant of state's rights. I did not agree with many of Bush's positions, but this was a policy I completely supported. I don't know about McCain.
I agree. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that any state is going to get out of the marriage business. If any state did, I believe that many social conservatives would go bonkers.
Probably because marriage brings in a nice chunk of money for the states..
Bush paid lip service to states' rights, just like all the other so-called "conservatives." But I really don't think of Bush as being a conservative, looking at the whole of his policies. He trampled over states' rights when he saw fit, he grew the federal government possibly more than any Democrat in recent memory, got the bailout wheels rolling and spent money like a drunken billionaire at Mandalay Bay.
It's a sad day for conservatism when all it takes to wear that label is to be an enabler of the military industrial complex.
I wonder what the admin will do when states rights is used on an issue they do not support????
Somehow I do not see this admin believing states rights are above federal law when it comes to guns for example.
Some how you dont realize that Obama has EXPANDED gun rights. And I'm sure you were outraged by the Bushies denying states rights to medical marijuana users.
Some how you dont realize that Obama has EXPANDED gun rights.
I didn't know that. How has he expanded gun rights?
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