>>States’ rights policies
Well that’s the standard Perrywinkler dodge on not dealing with the homosexual marriage issue. “It’s a state’s rights issue”.
Maybe you think it’s unreasonable for folks to just ask where your boy stands on the issues when they come up — without giving his handlers time to prepare a cut and paste que card. Tough.
SO - What’s Perry’s plan for dealing with this FEDERAL issue — will he try to undo this embrace of homosexual behavior in the military or NOT?
You heckle like your father, Satan.
All social issues are state issues, so Perry would have the ability to overturn gay marriage.
If he’s really conservative, once elected president, he will be able to overturn this, but there’s no point in committing political suicide at this point.
Wait until it becomes an election issue.
The ‘boy’ Perry stands here:
Gay marriage is not protected, but judges will declare it so
In 2003, the Supreme Court heard the case of two homosexual men who had been arrested and convicted under a Texas law that prohibited the act of sodomy. Reversing its decision from 17 years earlier (upholding a Georgia ban), the Court found a right to homosexual sodomy. Justice Kennedy explained why by digging back into a special concurrence from the “Casey” decision upholding abortion when he wrote, “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
I don’t even know what that means, but it certainly has nothing to do with the Constitution or the law.
The real concern lies with the direction the Court clearly wishes to take the nation yet refuses to admit. Gay marriage will soon be the policy of the United States, irrespective of federalism the Constitution, or the wishes of the American people. Not because it actually is protected in the Constitution, but because judges will declare it so.
Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p.109-110 Nov 15, 2010
http://www.issues2000.org/Rick_Perry.htm