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• Stacy

  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 9:20pm

  When you are “free” and you have a “right” it means you do not have to ask permission. We are free people and we should be able to have a “civil union” with whomever we choose. Marriage is a religious term and is defined by religious institutions . . . marriage is outside the reach of government. I guess I am not a healthy libertarian like poster Davidrusher suggests I should be . . . but the Center for my Marriage Policy is my church . . . . e gad. Go David Harsanyi — I agree with you 100%

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• DavidRUsher

  Posted on August 21, 2011 at 12:55am

  The view (held by some libertarians) that government should stop recognizing marriage will never happen in a million political years. This idea is akin to saying crime will not exist if government simply ignores it. The healthy libertarian view on marriage is this: we must remove all liberal marxist/socialist laws enacted since 1960 by feminists that empower government to destroy marriage and then make somebody else pay for it. As income decreases, the importance of marriage as a necessary microeconomic structure increases. Those in low income groups are not free. They are trapped in the welfare state. The Tea Party is horrified having to pay for all this. The “Marriage Values” policies developed by the Center for Marriage Policy (of which I am the President), are the answer. We will set marriage free to do as it has done for millenia, with our without government. It will slash crime rates, lift perhaps 70% of the poor out of poverty, repatriate jobs to America by waiving all federal, state, and corporate taxes on all low-skill jobs, replace unilateral no-fault divorce with “mutual consent” divorce, establish free marriage support groups in every church (marriagesavers.org), and much more. We are launching the Center for Marriage Policy in late October. Our website will be at marriagepolicy.org. We have at least three federal candidates slated to run on our policies, which are backed by Eagle Forum, the CWFA, and MoveOnUp. Get ready for action, folks.

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• crazyrightwingmom

  Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:03pm

  I would like to see the government get out of anything, but beware of those who say kids raised by anything other than man and woman are in a good situation. We have always insisted on the BEST for children…this is not the best. They need female and male structuring for healthy development. Just stick them in a pile and let them grow up, or promote the best thing. If you think it doesn’t matter, your head is in the sand.

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• efialtis

  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 6:19pm

  There is also this thing called “separation of church and state”… The Government has no business being involved in a RELIGIOUS rite (marriage) when the Government’s only involvement is for “legal purposes” or the Civil/Contractual Law aspects of a “civil union” or “domestic partnership”.
  Get the Government out of Marriage, free up people to practice their religion (or not) and EVERYONE benefits from the equal application of the LAW (no more complaints of “gay rights” concerning “marriage”, etc)…

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• bobcattf5

  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 5:44pm

  Debate nothing marriage is between one and and one woman!!!! Period!!!! Ask the Pope or read the good book!!!!!!

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• BrendanKissam

  Posted on August 19, 2011 at 5:39pm

  My friend and I made similar arguments for the privatization of marriage at the Uni-Tea rally in Philadelphia last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEo4JEaBSgo

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