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Like Rep. Louie Gohmert, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage also participated in pastor Rick Scarboroughs Tea Party Unity conference calls back in March, where he made the libertarian argument against legalizing same-sex marriage.
Brown commended his anti-gay organization for having been able to motivate a lot of the Tea Party groups along with African American and Hispanic folks around their shared fear that gay marriage will undermine the Constitution and jeopardize the future of Western civilization.
After discussing how NOM is working with leaders like Senator (Marco) Rubio or Ted Cruz, he warned that marriage equality will grow the size and scope of government. If the state recognizes same-sex unions, Brown claimed, then public officials will use the power of the state to punish, repress and marginalize anti-gay activists.
He said that NOMs opposition to marriage equality rests on the libertarian argument that if the state refuses to recognize the truth that marriage is by its nature the union of a man and a woman then youre giving the power to the state to call black white and white black, to put a falsehood into the law and a state that can do that is a state that pretty much can do anything.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/brian-brown-ours-actually-libertarian-argument-ban-gay-marriage
Wait a second, so wouldn't the government be even smaller if it didn't define marriage at all?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)These assholes suffer from an irony deficiency, among other maladies.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)completely stole ownership of their issues, distorted their name and installed their flunkies in state party leadership...
In a sane world, you'd think the libertarians would have been leading the charge for marriage equality, long before it was ever popular...Now their very name is being used as an argument against it...
LiberalFighter
(50,504 posts)He thinks Libertarian is all about less federal government? So he thinks it should be less federal government but more state government. And that would include having a church belief dictate state policy and laws.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)They manage to make increased freedom for individuals sound like giving to much power to the government; at least to those dumb enough to fall for such a faulty argument.
The fight for equality is a fight against the government. It's a request for the government to mind it's own business and not interfere with consenting adults. What's more libertarian than that?
I would think that true libertarians would be speaking out and slapping this nonsense down quickly.