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Gary Johnson: Lone Candidate Actually Seeking To Bring About Marriage Equality |
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Written by Craig Schlesinger
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00 |
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It should come as no surprise that the wedge issue of gay marriage is receiving plenty of attention in yet another election cycle. This time around, however, there is added fuel to the fire.
North Carolina recently passed an amendment to their state’s Constitution defining marriage as one man and one woman. On the heels of another famous “Biden Blooper,” President Obama decided to speak out the day after the North Carolina vote and proclaim his “personal” support for gay marriage while simultaneously insisting that this issue is best left to the states, effectively doing nothing.
This move by Obama reeks of political opportunism and partisan grandstanding. By staking out this position, he can safely support the idea of marriage equality without ruffling feathers in the more socially conservative states that he carried in 2008 (like North Carolina and Indiana) and desperately needs to carry again in 2012.
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Gary Johnson Criticizes Obama for Throwing Gay Marriage to the States |
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Written by Rob Power
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:00 |
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May 10, 2012, New York, NY – Libertarian nominee for President and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson today said he’s “disappointed” with President Obama’s position on gay marriage. Obama told ABC Wednesday he would let each individual state decide the gay marriage question instead of seeking federal protection of the right to marry. Johnson noted that more than 30 states already ban same sex marriage in one way or another.
In a statement, Johnson said, “Instead of insisting on equality as a U.S. Constitutional guarantee, the President has thrown this question back to the states. When the smoke clears, Gay Americans will realize the President’s words have gained them nothing today, and that millions of Americans in most states will continue to be denied true marriage equality . I guess the President is still more worried about losing Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia than he is in doing the right thing.
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Written by Angela Keaton
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:33 |
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Peace activist and SFL Student of the Year James Padilioni, Jr. takes aim at Obama's attempt to cram individuals into a box.
Libertarians, it is time that we lead the charge on ending LGBT discrimination, not because we affirm the values of each LGBT individual, but because we affirm the value of individuality and the flourishing of humanity. What good is political liberty if you are not free to embrace the person that stares back at you in the mirror and merely live your own life? While we bicker between ourselvesabout whether or not supporting gay marriage is a truly libertarian position, countless LGBT individuals – many of whom are young teenagers – live silent lives of pain and loneliness. The dance that some libertarians perform between the distinction of libertarian politics and conservative cultural values dodges the essential problem: the personalities of others are not a subject with which you can agree or disagree; there is nothing to debate. A person’s individuality belongs to him and him alone, and it’s not subject to community approval or tolerance. There is a reason why Baskin-Robbins makes 31 flavors of ice cream, and it would be absurd for anyone to say “So and so likes mint chocolate chip, but I like strawberry. While I don’t personally agree with his choice, he is free to eat whatever he wants.” While this may be better than trying to ban mint chocolate chip ice cream altogether, the ideal situation is one in which the conversation is never raised at all because ice cream flavor preferences are viewed as mere extensions of personality and ultimately, nobody cares.
Please read the rest of Shackles of Conformity.
[These SFL youth are going to put us out of business with their excellence on LGBTQ issues.--AK] |
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Written by Angela Keaton
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:41 |
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Libertarian publisher and author James Peron takes a mirror to bigots and hypocrites in When Bigotry Is a Mirror.
Billy James Hargis led a major "anti-communist crusade for Christ" and founded an ultra-right-wing college. He denounced liberals, homosexuals, and the civil rights movement, backed up with the singing group from his college, "The All-American Kids." Hargis, it seems, seduced several male members of the choir, along with one female.
[Guess some folks want it all--AK] |
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"...that gays have to beg to be given rights which should be theirs in the first place." |
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Written by Angela Keaton
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:06 |
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Excellent article by Alex McHugh, campus coordinator for Students for Liberty. McHugh wades into privileging and pinkwashing by the Obama Regime.
The danger is that in order to be excited about this, you have to come from the perspective that it’s acceptable for gays to be granted incrementally more rights in proportion to their normalization to “acceptable” lifestyles. Gay people were not acceptable in an older society, mostly because it was thought they didn’t live in committed relationships or want to marry. Now that it’s been “proven” they can conform and act in “acceptable” ways, they can have rights. The issue is that this reaffirms problematic assumptions about how one ought to live.
Read the rest of No Thank You, Mr. President at http://studentsforliberty.org/. |
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