For BD Bopper

[Alex]

Yeah, I read

Especially when Marraige doesn't violate any of the following:

LIFE: Is anyone being denied their right to live - Is anyone being murdered?

LIBERTY: Is anyone's freedom being taken away

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS/PROPERTY: : Is something physically being stolen or the ability for someone to have property being violated?

When you ask these questions of Gay Marriage existing the answers are clearly no.

to be saying that gay marriage does not run afoul of any of those principals so there is no reason for the government to bar it regardless of what BDBopper personally thinks.

In other words, gay marriage does not deprive anybody of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness/property.

Then issues are raised with how the process has happened in some place and concerns (unfounded in my opinion) about how gay marriage might impinge on personal religious expression. But at least what was written so far it seems to me that BDBopper is disagreeing with Huckabee on legislatively barring gay marriages (though possibly agreeing with him that god should maybe make people stop wanting them).

[BDBopper]

Thank you Alex. You are right on the money except for the last sentence...I am definitely not going that far. There are far more important things to be praying for.

[Alex]

That said, left unaddressed at this point (though you have said you're not done) is how you reconcile that position with such strong support for Huckabee politically.

[BDBopper]

Originally Posted by Alex

That said, left unaddressed at this point (though you have said you're not done) is how you reconcile that position with such strong support for Huckabee politically.

I guess I am better off answering questions


It's the only position on which we have disagreement. There are more important issues to me personally than the marriage debate. I'd rather not touch it (explains my reluctance to even bring up the subject here where it is far more important.) It doesn't affect me directly like most every other issue I can think of. I don't even have a position on marriage in my organization platform. Though I guess at some point maybe something on Civil Unions might enter because I can see a lot of benefit for folks with disabilities living together legally with mutual benefit.

To answer a question before it comes. Why no importance on the issue in the platform...there are many other organizations focusing on that issue alone.