Well written and well said. Much better than the previous attacks on Cruz. BUT, there is a difference between Cruz and Paul. Paul thinks the government should stay out of marriage altogether. Cruz goes the states rights route.
I agree with the author of this column and obviously then also Huckabee and Santorum. The only thing is, I have been arguing this issue off and on for 30 years I guess. So I have a decent sense of what is more salable to the uneducated general public which is steeped in emotion and little reason makes it into their grey matter area. States rights will sell easier. Too much bogus groundwork has been laid by the left. Voters just auto-spout the phrases and have no idea what our history really is — or care.
If I am wrong and there is a way to do it the Huckabee way then count me in for the fight. This issue weighs heavy on my heart and I loathe the status of it currently.
As long as the Constitution does not give the Federal government any say over marriage, then Ted Cruz’s position is the Constitutionally correct one. But let no one think for an instant that Ted Cruz favors same-sex marriage. That’s absurd.
The task then becomes to amend the Constitution so that marriage is within the federal domain.
Either that or work within individual states to ban it there, with the federal courts kept out of it. The jurisdiction federal courts could be taken away simply by statute.
It seems to me that whenever it has been left up to the people of a state , they invariably choose to protect traditional (i.e. true) marriage.