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Rand Paul Would Rather End Marriage Than Share It With Gay People
While most of the football team’s worth of Republicans running for president have reacted to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision with straightforward rejections, Rand Paul decided to get cute about it. “Perhaps the time has come to examine whether or not governmental recognition of marriage is a good idea, for either party,” he argues in an editorial in Time.
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Rand Paul demonstrates the legal acumen of an 8-year-old
Rand Paul has a Time op-ed where he digs into his family’s roots as segregationist-types and argues that, rather than share marriage with the gays, it should be privatized. I debunk that argument at Slate, but didn’t have the space to address this weird and pathetic attempt at a “gotcha”
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It's like having a kid who's mad that another kid got the same toy he did, so he flips the fuck out and tries to destroys all the toys since it's not as special as it was when it was just his toy.
I think we all got over that in pre-school.
This is a decent idea. However, that it comes after the Supreme Court ruling, I say too little too late.
It really isn't. All it does is concede more ground to religious demands. Marriage is not, never was and never should be an exclusively religious institution. There's nothing wrong with it except that religious partisans want to keep it away from others. Well, they wanted to do that with interracial marriage and we said "no" to that as well. The world has not come to an end because of it.