Same Sex Marriage Debate

It looks like most of the Republican presidential candidates want the Federal government to ban same sex marriage:

http://www.thirdage.com/news/rick-pe...gop_08-28-2011

[transjen]

Originally Posted by aw9725

It looks like most of the Republican presidential candidates want the Federal government to ban same sex marriage:

http://www.thirdage.com/news/rick-pe...gop_08-28-2011

And yet they all cry to get the fedral goverment out of our lives
Except when it come to Marriage and abortions
Jerseygirl Jen

[randolph]

Originally Posted by transjen

And yet they all cry to get the fedral goverment out of our lives
Except when it come to Marriage and abortions
Jerseygirl Jen

A very good observation.
I think it's basically pandering to their conservative religious base. Hypocrisy rules in Washington.
If all those politicians that complain about big government would leave government, the country would be better off.

Originally Posted by randolph

A very good observation.
I think it's basically pandering to their conservative religious base. Hypocrisy rules in Washington.

I think you and Jen are both correct. The ?right? seems to have no problem interfering when it suits their own agenda. I am afraid that if things continue as they are the United States will eventually become a right-wing Christian ?theocracy? beholden to gigantic multinational corporate interests and the top 1% of wealth holders. Science and inquiry as well as individual expression will be suppressed. This, at least to me, is not what I believe our ?founding fathers? had in mind over 200 years ago.