It recently came to my attention that the conservatives in this country are playing a double game. When they campaign they preach to their base that government is bad, that government never knows what is right for the people and the government should never tell people what they can and cannot do. A prime example of this would be the upheaval over the “individual mandate” in the current health care legislation challenges. (Which by the way, is the same as states mandating car insurance, but that is another matter.) So, with all of this talk of government not knowing what is right, what gives it the right to tell people who they cannot marry?
Also, conservatives do not believe in government intervention. Well, I see laws that dictate who we can and cannot marry as government intervention. I see laws that tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body as government intervention. I see laws that determine what sexual acts are legal or illegal as government intervention.
Ideologically, conservatives believe in the principle that government intervention is bad, thus with their new found power in the House of Representatives, why shouldn’t they strike down these “big government” provisions and let the will of the people be heard!
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