More Social Diversions: A Libertarian View
Please, make the stupid stop!
President Barack Obama said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the first time he’s declared support for making gay marriage legal.
Obama’s remarks, made in an interview with ABC News, go a step beyond his previous stance on the issue, which was that his initial opposition to same-sex marriage was “evolving.”
The president said that his position has changed as he’s seen same-sex couples in long-term relationships and gays serving in the military.
Why is the government involved in any way, shape or form regarding your personal, private and adult living relationships?
Where can you find in the Constitution the authority of the Federal Government to "make legal" (or illegal) any such arrangement? The 10th Amendment says if it's not explicitly in The Constitution it's none of the government's damn business.
More to the point, how can you possibly square any such position for or against any particular combination of family in the context of a word that is inherently religious in origin and meaning with The Establishment Clause?
You can't. But you sure can pander, and boy oh boy do we do a lot of that in politics. Obama now joins Gary Johnson who has also been trumpeting this as "an issue", and both are doing so in a means that simply applies more statism and more unconstitutional intrusion into your life and, in this case, bedroom than there is any justification for.
There is no justification for any such law -- for or against. I remind everyone that the original intent of "marriage laws" was institutional racism -- bigotry.
That's right -- the original laws were passed, right around 1700 in America, to prevent miscegenation -- the intermarriage of white people with other races, in this case blacks and Indians (Native Americans if you prefer.)
Yeah.
So we have laws that were flatly unconstitutional in their first instance but which pre-dated the Constitution. Indeed, Constitutional Amendments were actually proposed to enact miscegenation as federal policy on multiple occasions (at least three that I know of.) The laws on miscegenation were slowly struck after the Civil War but were not ruled unconstitutional until 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. Nonetheless it was not until 2001 that the last of them was actually repealed.
But the bigotry doesn't end there. Several States, including Florida, currently criminalize two people of the opposite sex cohabitating. Note that Obama says nothing about this even though a gay couple can live openly in Florida without violating the law as the Florida Statute specifically says "man and woman."
The State has no business being involved in this whatsoever. There is no legitimate argument for special privileges or penalties associated with one's living arrangement so long as the participants are all consenting adults. And there are penalties -- try being married with two incomes and you'll find out exactly how that works come tax time.
I'll be interested in applauding more statist behavior when someone can show me where in the Constitution it is authorized for the Federal Government to pass a law dealing with how two or more adults choose to live in the privacy of their own home. There is exactly one legitimate role for government in this regard, and that is to provide a venue in which voluntarily entered-into contracts can be enforced if necessary (commonly called a civil courtroom.)
If you want to create a contract for your living arrangement, have at it.
If you want to get married, go see a Priest.
And if you don't like this reality in the context of The Constitution, including The Establishment Clause, then pass an amendment under the lawful procedures to do so that confers upon the Federal Government the right to intrude into your bedroom and tell you whether your living arrangement is "lawful" or not.
Until then it's none of the Federal Government's damn business, whether you're gay, straight, white, black, brown or Martian and I for one am tired of the pandering incessantly displayed by politicians that are in fact nothing more than application of yet another boot to the neck of the people.
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